▲ Gu Ailing ate the leek box while waiting for the score
Leek box
It is a hot word for today's Beijing Winter Olympics.
cause
It was in the freestyle ski women's steeplechase qualifiers,
18-year-old Gu Ailing advanced to the final with a third place finish.
After getting a low score in the first jump mistake,
Gu Ailing successfully completed the second jump,
And when waiting for the score on the spot, he ate the "burnt cake".
After the game,
She revealed that she was eating a box of leeks.
▲ Gu Ailing in the game
For Gu Ailing to eat leek box,
Netizens have said,
"She's strong enough to be strong, leek box in the mouth"
"The taste is really beautiful, and the taste is quite heavy, hahaha"
"Although I can't ski,
But I love the leek box."
……
Leek box,
Some places are also called "leek zygotes",
It is made of leeks, eggs, and noodles as the main ingredients.
The food that is made,
It is Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi and other places,
Very popular traditional snack.
In some parts of China,
The leek box is still a noodle dish that must be eaten during the New Year,
For example, Tianjin and other northern regions,
There is a saying that "the first two sides of the first dumpling, the first three hezi pot turns".
And the "ultimate taste" of the leek box,
It doesn't come from a restaurant,
It's a home-made product.
The so-called "leek box which is stronger?" My mom made the most delicious."
▲ Leek box Source: @ Old Xu said ball
Leek box is not just a modern people love to eat,
It was a favorite food of all social classes in ancient times.
In the Qing Dynasty's great talent Yuan Ming's "Suiyuan Food List",
It is very clearly documented:
"Leeks: minced leeks mixed with meat, added ingredients,
Wrap it in dough and burn it in oil.
It's even better to add puff pastry to the noodles. ”
When did the leek box originate,
There is no definitive statement at this time.
But its filling, the leeks,
But it has a long history.
Right now
Leeks are a very common vegetable,
But its life is not simple,
In ancient times, it was a very important sacrificial dish.
Next
Let's learn about the unusual life story of leeks.
1
From "Explaining Words" to "Leeks"
The book "Explanation of Characters in Shuowen" is a book on the origin and analysis of Chinese characters compiled by Xu Shen in the Eastern Han Dynasty, in which the words related to leeks have been touched on many times, and the word "leek" is explained in the "Shuowen Leek Department" as follows:
"The name of the dish, a kind of long time, is called a leek."
This means that leeks, a vegetable, can be harvested for a long time after planting. The "leek" character of the leek belongs to the hieroglyphic characters, the lower part of the word "one" represents the land, and the "non" above is a leek leaf that very much wants to grow vigorously under the writing of the small seal. In the mainland, leeks are also often written as "韮菜", and the Song Dynasty official XiuYun book "Guangyun Has Rhymes" explains that "leeks, commonly known as 韮." "Why is that? In fact, this is very easy to understand, in the ancient Chinese characters on the mainland are not as fixed as now, but there are many variant characters, although these variant characters are not written in the same way, but the meaning is the same. The reason why the "leek" of the leek is added to the word "grass" is because the leek is a perennial herb that can be harvested continuously, so the word cursive is added to it.
▲Speaking the text to explain the words
2
Sacrificial use of leeks
In modern times, leeks are an ordinary vegetable, but in ancient times, leeks were one of the necessary tribute dishes for sacrifice. As early as the "Book of Poetry, Fengfeng, July", it is recorded that "on the fourth day of its flea, the lamb sacrifices the leek." Kong Yingda commented in the Five Classics of Justice as follows:
"On the morning of the fourth day, the black lamb was sacrificed to the gods, and the leeks were sacrificed, and the reason why kai was to resist the heat was to teach the public before the word, and the cold and summer were prepared."
This means that on the fourth day (April in the Zhou Dynasty calendar), the day of the lamb and leeks needed to be sacrificed. There are many records of the use of leeks for sacrifices, for example, in the "Records of History", there is a content of sacrifice with eggs fried leeks, and there are also records of "sacrificing leeks for lambs" in the Zizhi Tongjian. Until the Ming and Qing dynasties, the practice of leeks being sacrificed was still prevalent in the "Qing History Manuscript Ritual Zhi" and also included the content of sacrifices with leeks in the first month. It seems that leeks have been used as sacrifices in mainland history for a long time, and their status is very stable. However, in modern times, people have gradually omitted this practice.
Some friends should be curious about why leeks are used for sacrifice, in fact, this is mainly related to the growth characteristics of leeks, leeks have the characteristics of "cutting and reviving", such characteristics make leeks look like they have a sense of endless life, and use them for sacrifice to beg to bless the prosperity of their ancestors from generation to generation.
In addition to the symbolic significance of leeks, the special smell of leeks is also one of the reasons why they become sacrificial objects. In our impression, "meat dish" should refer to meat dish, but in ancient times it was different, leeks also belonged to meat dishes, and belonged to one of the "five meats". Li Shizhen pointed out in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that "five meats" or "five spices" are five kinds of vegetables with spicy and other special smells, including leeks. The ancients believed that the "spicy" of leeks can play a role in removing the dirty qi in the body, so people love leeks and hope to clean their internal organs by eating leeks. In the Jin Dynasty's "Record of Customs", it is recorded:
"On the first day of the first century, the layman worships shou and goes to the five spice plates." The five hearts of the people, in order to send out the qi of the five intestines also. ”
This means that the "five spices" should be used when praying to the birthday on the first day of the first lunar month, which can play a role in removing the five internal organs. The use of new spring leeks for sacrifice also means that the ancestors can taste the fresh spring flavor and remove the dirty atmosphere from the past year.
But leeks are also not loved by some people because of their special smell, among which Buddhist disciples cannot eat leeks, and their special smell is considered to be disliked by the gods, and Buddhist disciples cannot eat such vegetables. Under the influence of the Buddhists, the Taoists also made provisions on the "five xin", and in the Taoist literature "Zhengyi French Cultivation True Will" during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the five kinds of vegetables of "garlic, small garlic, leeks, brassica, and coriander" were listed as "five spices", including leeks.
3
The history of leek cultivation
The origin of leeks is in the mainland, and wild leeks can be found in almost every place on the mainland. In the "Xia Xiaozheng" of the Spring and Autumn Period, it is recorded that "there are leeks in the first month" means that there are leeks planted in the vegetable garden of the first month, so the history of domestication and cultivation of leeks in the mainland is at least 2500 years old.
The technology of growing leeks in greenhouses has appeared as early as the Han Dynasty on the mainland, and there is a record of the nobles at that time ordering people to build a fire in winter to plant leeks indoors for consumption. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there are already records of leeks in the "Explanation of Texts and Characters". Regarding the various cultivation methods of leeks, there are also many introductions in mainland agricultural books, such as "Qi Min Zhi Shu" and "Wang Zhennong Book" and other agricultural works have records on leek planting technology. In this way, it seems that the mainland leek cultivation technology was already very high in ancient times.
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The mainland not only has a long history of growing leeks, advanced planting technology, but also attaches great importance to the cultivation of leeks in successive generations. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, the "Biography of Gong Sui of the Book of Han" recorded that the Bohai Taishou Gong Sui stipulated that the locals must plant a leek per person. In the Five Dynasties period, there are also records of "lessons planted wood and leeks". By the Song Dynasty, there were also records of people being required to grow leeks. It can also be seen that leek cultivation has always been valued by the rulers in ancient times, leeks are tender and delicious, and the people are naturally very willing to grow leeks.
Having said so much about the history of leeks, is it suddenly that the inconspicuous little leeks are actually very promising!
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