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No fire is no strength? Ancient female chef: We're just low-key

Wide body fat round face, waist tie apron firewood high.

A large waist circle can kill pigs, and a waist wide ten times carry a knife.

When it comes to ancient cooks, many people's first reaction is probably Li Dazui in "The Tale of Wulin". Strangely, most of the people who "wash their hands and make soup" in Mingming's poems are beautiful women, how did they become fafu masters in the TV series? Could it be that the ancient female chefs were not famous? NO! NO! NO!

In history, there are many female chefs who "go up to the hall and get down to the kitchen".

"Grandmaster" can also be a daughter body

They are all said to be "Grandmaster", but the domineering name of "Shanzu" is a female chef.

Shanzu was the home cook of Duan Wenchang, the Tang Dynasty minister, and it was probably because of his high cooking skills that he was revered as the "ancestor" of "food" food. Over time, her real name disappeared into history. Duan Chengxiang is a very fond and good eater, and he once wrote a fifty-volume food masterpiece "Food Classic". Under this "boss", Shanzu was very strict about the choice of ingredients. Green vegetables only use vegetable hearts, never overnight dishes; when choosing mushrooms, the color, size, and quality should be consistent; if you want to use bamboo shoots, you need to simmer the tips of bamboo shoots with three kinds of soup ingredients... In short, it is "exquisite". Her craftsmanship, while deeply affirmed by The Prime Minister, also became the "writing material" of the young master of the Duan family. It is said that in Duan Wenchang's son Duan Chengshi's "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks", most of the descriptions of dietary dishes are derived from the cuisine made by Shanzu.

From this point of view, the success of "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks" is inseparable from the "technical support" of Shanzu.

Nuns who don't want to chase stars are not good cooks

Buy blind boxes, sought after hands, do handicrafts, go out of cosplay... This year, which young person has not consumed for the impulse of big IP?

However, for the idol to go out of the surrounding matter, more than 1,000 years ago, there were female chefs who produced a famous food "handmade". The five-generation female chef was named Fan Zheng, and although she was famous for her cuisine, her job was actually to be a nun. The nun Fan Zheng was probably the "iron powder" of the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei. In his later years, Wang Wei lived in seclusion in the Villa of Yuanchuan, and painted a "Map of Yuanchuan" on the wall of the nearby Qingyuan Temple, depicting "Twenty Views of Yuanchuan": Lu Chai, ZhuliGuan, Xinyiwu, Lacquer Garden... All in the painting. Fan Zheng designed a set of "Small Samples of The Chuan Chuan Map" based on this "Chuan Chuan Tu".

No fire is no strength? Ancient female chef: We're just low-key

Yuan Wang Mengge Wang Wei's "Map of The Chuan River" (partial) Song Dynasty Tao Gu "Qing Yi Lu" recorded that Fan Zheng used pickled fish, dried meat, melon fruits, vegetables and other raw materials, first spelled out 20 small cold dishes that were made alone, and the small cold dishes were related to each other, and together they constituted the charming scenery of the entire "Yuanchuan Villa". It can be seen that this female chef is not only good at cooking, strong design ability, but also has a deep cultural accomplishment.

Such a "small sample of the River Map" is simply a work of art, and people at that time also thought so, so that this dish "people love to play and can't bear to eat." ”

What it's like for an emperor to be a spokesman

Although the wine aroma is not afraid of the deep alley, it is still important to have a well-known spokesperson. What is it like to meet the best food and the best spokesperson?

In the "Jiangsu Bunko Essence Compilation Yu Shi Mingyan", Hangzhou Song Sister-in-law has something to say.

No fire is no strength? Ancient female chef: We're just low-key

Sister-in-law Song was a native of the Northern Song Dynasty (present-day Kaifeng, Henan), who was not surnamed Song, but followed her husband's ranks, and was called Song Wujie, and the fish soup she made was very famous in her hometown. During the Southern Song Dynasty, the north was turbulent, and the family of the fifth sister-in-law of the Song Dynasty also moved south to Hangzhou and continued to sell fish soup under the Su Causeway of the West Lake. Originally, at this point, Sister-in-law Song was just a good female cook. Coincidentally, one day Song Gaozong took a boat tour of the West Lake, heard the shouting sound of his hometown accent, and tasted song sister-in-law's fish soup, felt delicious and abnormal, and immediately gave money a hundred yuan.

No fire is no strength? Ancient female chef: We're just low-key

"Bust of Emperor Gaozong of Song" (partial) With the emperor Jinkou Yuyan, the craftsmanship of Song Concubine spread throughout Lin'an Province for a while, and everyone came to buy fish soup from the noble families of Wang Sun and nobles, and Song Wu sister-in-law made a fortune from this, and "Song Sister-in-law Fish Soup" has been passed down as a famous dish to this day.

Xiao Meiren dim sum, the earliest gourmet purchasing

Cha Yan Yue Se, Master Bao, Dao Xiang Village, Shen Dacheng... Want to try the popular food on the hot search, but there is no storefront around? It doesn't matter, there is a universal network to help you buy food!

The ancients wanted to eat distant food, why not? Yuan Ming, a famous foodie in the Qing Dynasty, said that I can also buy on my behalf.

No fire is no strength? Ancient female chef: We're just low-key

Yuan Mei is like Yuan Ming who never forgets the Xiaomei people in Yangzhou. In his "Suiyuan Food List", there is a separate article "Xiao Meiren Dim Sum", which reads: "Outside the south gate of Yizheng, Xiao Meiren is good at making dim sum, where steamed buns, cakes, dumplings and the like, small and lovely, white as snow." Fifty-nine years before Qianlong Chongyang, Yuan Mei specially sent someone to Yizheng to order eight kinds of snacks from Xiao Meiren's family. Yuan Ming did not just buy one or two pieces of relief, but bought 3,000 pieces in one go and shipped them back to Nanjing. Of these, 1,000 were given to Inspector Qifeng of Jiangsu. Qi Feng'e wrote a poem to thank him, and Yuan Mei replied to the poem Yinghe, writing that "the old surname of the cake lady is Xiao, and the good friends buy and send Jiang Gao on their behalf." The rest of the pastries, Yuan Ming also distributed as gifts to his friends, and the literati who received the pastries gave poems and praises. In the "Jiangsu Wenku Essence Compilation Oubei Collection", it is recorded that the Qing Dynasty literary scholar Zhao Yi wrote a sentence for this "purchasing" rhyme, in which he said that Xiao Meiren's dim sum will be the same as Dongpo meat and Meigong cake, which will flow through the ages.

No fire is no strength? Ancient female chef: We're just low-key

It seems that it is not the poor strength of the female chef,

It's just that the traffic is a little low, March 8 Women's Day is coming soon, and the likes are on the way to see the forwards go up

Brush up on the unknown ancient female chefs!

Wen |Modern Express + reporter Zheng Wenjing Zhang Wenying Intern Ye Zifan

(Edited by Fan Wenjing)

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