If pancakes are produced in Shandong, there must be people who are not convinced, northeast, Hebei, Anhui, Jiangsu have people like to eat pancakes, Tianjin also has pancake fruits, how can you say that pancakes originate in Shandong? But if Shandong people eat pancakes a lot, most people will agree: yes, yes, they all eat
Pancake rolls with scallions
Right?
In fact, just like not all Sichuan people can eat spicy, not all northeast people can drink alcohol, only some Shandong people love to eat pancake rolls and green onions. The author is from Shandong, so I never eat like this; and as a Shandong person, I don't even like to eat pancakes, right?
However, shandong people still love to eat pancakes after all, and the coverage rate of Shandong pancakes, regardless of area or population, can account for about 1/3. That is to say, if you find three Shandong people at random, one person may have eaten pancakes.
Of course, a wide coverage does not mean the origin, so where is the origin of the pancake?
The origin of pancakes
To answer this question, we have to go to the ancient examination and first understand the tweezer [ào] used to make pancakes.
When did the tweezers appear?
You must not think of it,
Tweezers first appeared in the Neolithic Age
。
Pottery excavated from Yangshao
Among the Yangshao cultural relics unearthed in the 1980s was a tweezer made of clay:
Circular flat, three-legged or four-legged, with black smoke traces left over from use.
According to research, this is the ancestor of the tweezer. In the Song Dynasty tomb in Dengfenggao Village, Henan, there are also murals made of pancakes.
Murals in the tombs of Dengfeng Song in Henan
Where there are tweezers, there are pancakes or pasta similar to pancakes,
Yangshao culture is about 5,000 years old, indicating that pancakes have a history of thousands of years.
In addition, in the tombs of the Wei and Jin dynasties in Jiayuguan, Gansu Province, a mural of the kitchen lady making pancakes was also found, and it can be clearly seen from the painting that they first rolled out the cake and then put it on the hammer, which is similar to the method of baking steamed buns (single cakes) in the rural areas of northern Anhui, but different from the method of Shandong pancakes.
During the Wei and Jin dynasties, the kitchen lady in the tomb made pancake murals
So far, archaeologists have not found earlier records of pancakes in Shandong, so at present,
The earliest area on the mainland to eat pancakes may be Henan, not Shandong.
Legends and written accounts of pancakes
Let's look at some of the legends and texts related to pancakes.
Legend has it
Zhuge Liang invented pancakes
。 In the early days of his assistance to Liu Bei, he was often hunted down and killed by Cao Jun because of his widowed army. During a march, the army lost all the pots and stoves, so Zhuge Liang ordered people to take the batter and spread the batter on the gong with a wooden stick to make a pancake to fill the hunger.
In addition, at the banquet before the Battle of Chibi, Zhou Yu put All The Specialties of Jiangdong in front of Sun Quan, expressing his determination to stick to Jiangdong. Zhuge Liang didn't say a word and ate the rest of the dishes rolled up in pancakes. Zhou Yu exclaimed, "...
Sir want to sweep the world?
Zhuge Liang replied with a smile:
Gangdong alone
。 Xu Yougong of the Tang Dynasty has two poems about this matter:
If it were not for the pancakes and Wu Shu, the world would have already returned to Cao Gong.
”
Although the story is told vividly, Zhuge Liang's invention of pancakes is not reliable, after all, the tweezers existed thousands of years ago, how could pancakes appear in the Three Kingdoms? So what was the tweezer used for at that time?
The written record of pancakes first appears in Wang Jia's "Collected Remains" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty:
Jiangdong is commonly known as the twentieth day of the first month, and the red silk strands are placed on the roof with pancakes, which is called filling the sky leak. According to legend, Nuwa made up for the heavens and the earth with the day
。 ”
A custom is mentioned here, every year on the twentieth day of the first month, people use red threads to tie pancakes to the roof, following the example of Nuwa using pancakes to make up the sky. Northern Song Dynasty philosopher and thinker Li Qian [gòu]
Only idle women in the world, a pancake to make up for the sky to wear
The verse also confirms the legend of "making up the sky with pancakes".
The customer who ate the pancake roll green onion for the first time laughed at the big mother
Pu Songling of the Qing Dynasty also had a comment on pancakes in his "Pancake Fu":
Round in the moon, as big as copper, as thin as the paper of the creek, as color as the wings of the yellow crane
" vivid description.
Yuan Ming, a foodie of the Qing Dynasty, said of Shandong pancakes:
Shandong Kong Fantai homemade pancakes, thin as cicada wings, large as tea plates, soft and exquisite
。 He went on to say:"
Eat Kong Fangbo pancakes, and the pancakes of the world can be wasted
Yuan Ming is a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and his official work is not big, but he is an old fritter in the official field, and he has a wide range of friends. Judging by his exaggerated description of pancakes, he should have eaten a lot of pancakes but was eating pancakes for the first time to have such praise for pancakes.
Exquisite Shandong pancakes, want to eat
Types of Shandong pancakes
Let's go back to Shandong pancakes.
Shandong people love to eat pancakes, and they also eat tricks. The southwestern region of Lu is representative
Tengzhou cuisine pancakes
It is made by two baked pancakes sandwiched between vegetables and slowly simmered [tēng] on a tweezer. The store washes and cuts a variety of fresh vegetables in advance and puts them in the basket, you can choose to match them at will, you can also beat an egg like a pancake fruit, cut two slices of ham and sandwich it, eat it on the outside and tender on the inside, steaming, nutritious, full of flavor.
The way to eat in Linyi, Shandong is different. They'll put in pork head or beef grounds, chopped meat with stir-fried shallots, ginger, garlic, celery and other ingredients, hot and spicy, full of oil and not fatty.
Zibo pancakes are divided into red and white pancakes, red pancakes are made of sorghum noodles, and white pancakes are mostly made of corn or millet or mixed with both. Mixed with pancakes, there are more irritating pickles stir-fried chili peppers, scallion dipping sauce, etc. The types of Zibo pancakes are also diverse, including sweet pancakes from Zhoucun, large pancakes from Xihe, and sour pancakes from Boshan. The local market has also realized the commercialization of pancakes, which manufacturers have made into palm-sized round cakes and packaged them in paper barrels the size of instant noodle boxes and sold in supermarkets.
Zibo Zhoucun small pancakes
Shandong pancakes with Tianjin pancake fruits
After talking about Shandong pancakes, I have to say about Tianjin pancake fruit.
In recent years, the name of pancake fruit has greatly surpassed the trend of Shandong pancakes, and some people have even written a "Song of Pancake Fruit":
Medicine! Chek! Pancake fruit come in a set
!...... Some people seized the business opportunity to start a chain of pancake fruits, and the storefront covered many cities. Some people even sold pancake fruits to the United States, and a set of ordinary pancake fruits sold for hundreds of yuan, becoming the new favorite of American instant snacks.
Americans have a hard time eating pancake fruit
Compared with Shandong pancakes, pancake fruits should be eaten hot, and the taste will change when it is cooled. The shandong pancakes are diversified in form, and can be eaten hot and cold, and Shandong rural areas are more accustomed to making a lot of pancakes in advance and putting them up to eat slowly. So in contrast, Shandong pancakes are dry pasta, and pancake fruits are instant snacks.
Did the pancake fruit evolve from Shandong pancakes? This can not be verified, after all, Shandong is not necessarily the birthplace of pancakes, and the tweezers are the same, there is no difference between size and size, but it is impossible to judge who comes first and who is corrected. However, from the perspective of practice,
Pancake fruit is more like a way of eating that evolved from pancakes
Good tempting pancake fruit
epilogue
In addition, there is a later story about the legend of Zhuge Liang and pancakes, and it is said that Guan Yu's death has a certain relationship with pancakes.
After Guan Yu defended Jingzhou, Sun Quan tried every means to get Jingzhou back, Zhuge Liang was perfunctory on the one hand, but he also had people send Pancakes and Glutinous Rice Porridge to Guan Yu, saying"
Annexation (pancake) Jingzhou
”。 Guan Yu understood Xiang Xiang's intentions and went along with it, which eventually led to Guan Yu's defeat and maicheng. This matter is evidenced by Wang Xishi of the Ming Dynasty:
People eat pancakes are blessed with longevity, but they are the only ones who harm The Public. The hero is most afraid of arrogance, and should guard against Wuxia having Amun
As we said earlier, pancakes will not be Zhuge Liang's invention, and the legend that he sent pancakes to Guan Yu is also undocumented, so you must not blame Zhuge Liang for Guan Yu's death, let alone blame the pancakes, after all, the food that can fill the hunger and "make up the heavens" is only pancakes.