The Tang Dynasty was the most powerful period in Chinese history, and before the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty's politics, economy, and culture developed at a high speed, and many small countries had to pay tribute every year to seek the protection of the Tang Dynasty.
In fact, in addition to the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, the food culture is also world-class, And Chinese food has always paid attention to "color and fragrance", and the culture of the Tang Dynasty has developed to the extreme. Tang Dynasty delicacies include honeysuckle sandwich flowers, bright shrimp burning, tonghua soft beef intestines, single-caged golden soufflé, jushengnu and so on, just to sound like people salivate.
Ancient Chinese genealogies once recorded a Tang feast food - agate fish. Literally, agate fish is like a fish made of agate, but agate is a precious artifact in ancient times, even if the Tang Dynasty people have money, they will not eat fish made of agate. What exactly was the "agate fish" of the Tang Dynasty? After in-depth analysis, experts discovered a secret of the Tang Dynasty.
The history books record the cooking techniques of "agate fish", "Agate fish, take the fish if you will, pluck the knife, maozhi, qianzi in its spleen, in order to pay the fish, steaming." "The meaning is roughly that the internal organs of the fish are removed and washed, and then sprinkled on top with very finely sliced pickle shreds, and finally steamed in a steamer. Some people may say, then this dish is directly called "pickle steamed fish" is not enough, why take the "agate fish" such a tall name?
In fact, this is related to the "thousand sons" in the record, the ancient "thousand sons" refers to the modern pomegranate, the thousand sons are also the necessary material for agate fish, because the color of the pomegranate is very similar to the agate, so the court named this dish "agate fish". As for the taste of agate fish, it is better than its name, because pomegranates are rich in acidity, which reacts with proteases in the belly of the fish, so that a large number of amino acids are decomposed in the fish, so the fish is not only more delicious to eat, but also has a health effect.
After understanding the cooking techniques of agate fish, the experts further analyzed the "agate fish". In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, there was no such fruit as pomegranates, pomegranates were specialties of the Western Regions, and the Tang Dynasty introduced the cultivation technology of pomegranates into the Central Plains, which shows how close the diplomacy between the Tang Dynasty and the countries in the Western Regions was. The reason why a country can prosper, in addition to soft power and hard power, but also rely on strong diplomatic capabilities, the Tang Dynasty's "open and inclusive" policy is the key to the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, which is also a big secret hidden for more than 2,000 years.