There is a plot in the 23rd episode of the continuously popular "Dream Hualu", Xiao Qinyan held a birthday banquet in the palace, and at the instigation of Xiao Shu's ill-intentions, Gu Qianfan revealed a chef's skill to present Xiao Qinyan: he let people bring the Yellow River carp, pulled out the sword, and cut the carp into sashimi; Another sword pierced the orange, dripping juice to be used as a condiment, the fish sword doubled, and the skill was amazing. Let netizens directly call out "the assistant who does not want to be a cook is not a good husband.".
Gu Qianfan demonstrates "cooking skills"
Xiao Qinyan tasted the fish fillet with great joy and casually recited a poem: "Purple flowers and green leaves are stored in the fang bottle, and the golden orange is cut through." The "脍" here refers to sashimi, that is, raw fish. In ancient times, sashimi was generally called sashimi or salmon. In the play, the Song Dynasty people have become popular to eat raw fish, so where is the earlier origin of fish raw?
Xiao Qinyan chanted praise
The crowd tasted the fish
There is the earliest record of eating fish in the Book of Poetry, Xiao ya June: "Jifu Yanxi is blessed with many blessings." Come and go from pickaxe, I will do forever. Drink the royal friends, the turtle carp. "The "carp" is raw carp fillet. The "Wu Yue Chunqiu Lu Inner Biography" also has the following record: "Zi Xu returned to Wu, and The Third Division of Wu Wangwen was coming, and the fish was ruled by the fish (脍). It can be seen that King Wu used fish to reward the army that attacked Chu Kaixuan.
In the Tang Dynasty, eating raw fish began to really prevail, and "fish" frequently appeared in the poet's pen. Li Bai's "Hu'er whisks a few frost blades, and the red muscle flowers fall on the white snow", which can be said to be a very meticulous writing of the process of the sliced fish; And Wang Changling wrote in "Sending Journey Six": "The winter night is wounded in Wuxi, and the blue fish and snow fall on the orange fish", which is to point out the orange fish, which is the condiment with the raw fish; Bai Juyi wrote in the "Poem of Hewei": "Fish mustard sauce mix, water sunflower salt soy sauce", let us know that the ancients have long liked sashimi dipped in mustard sauce to eat; Yang Wanli even wrote: "The Qunxian Yao advised Jiuxia To look at the golden plate and the jade whale", good guys, they all want to eat whales, powerful.
Now sashimi
The background of the story of Menghualu is in the Song Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty fish is popular, and it naturally did not decline in the Song Dynasty. See how Su Dongpo, a Song Dynasty literary hero who loves food, describes fish raw: "Wu'er fish wisps are thin and want to fly, and before they go to say that they are salivating", the sashimi that is as thin as a cicada's wings feels that they can be blown away by the wind, which is really amazing. "The fish and the head are beautiful, and the noodles are poured into the porridge", which is the land tour version of "yearning for life".
Seeing this, everyone may want to ask, now we know that eating raw fish is easy to get sick due to parasites, did the ancient people know? Zhang Zhongjing at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty pointed out in the "Outline of the Golden Plateau", "Eating and drinking cheese make people have worms in their stomachs, which is malaria." It can be seen that the ancients knew, but it is clear that many foodies in the Tang and Song dynasties did not really pay attention to these admonitions, and records of illness due to gluttony and fish increasingly appeared in relevant history books. After the Song Dynasty, people became vigilant about the consumption of the urea, such as with more condiments with bactericidal effects. But unlike Japan, China is more of a freshwater fish, more parasites, and harder to kill by those condiments. After the Ming and Qing dynasties, the wind of eating "fish" gradually declined.
But in any case, Menghualu makes more people realize that modern familiar things such as pulling flowers, matcha tea, and fish raw are actually played by our ancestors long ago, and they play more elegantly. See if this drama can bring us more of the daily life of the ancients