Today, we will talk about the diet of the Spring and Autumn Warring States. New Year's Festival, cold winter waxing moon, three or five friends, sitting around the hot pot, The Hu Kan in the south of the sea, is a great joy in life. For eating, Chinese seems to have left the so-called state of only food and clothing, as long as you want to eat, as long as you are willing to spend money, most of the mountains and treasures and seafood you want to eat are also eaten. Of course, different mountains and seafood, the price is different, most of the ordinary people's homes also have to consider it again and again, but in the end it is known. And if the time goes back to the Spring and Autumn Warring States more than two thousand years ago, ordinary people's families, even if they think about it, can't imagine what the Tianzi nobles will eat.
Before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the House of Heavenly Sons, the so-called "Feed of the King, eat six grains, eat six animals, drink six Qing, and shame supplies one hundred and twenty products." Eight treasures are used, sauce is used with a hundred and twenty urns", even there are hundreds of condiments, which shows the richness of the categories. In fact, the Zhou people were actually extremely resistant to luxurious eating habits, and the Zhou people said that the King of Yin "used wine as a pool and hanging meat as a forest", and they analyzed the important reasons for the demise of Yin Shang, including excessive diet and excessive luxury. The diet of the Zhou people, from the Tianzi to the princes, to the nobles, and finally to the Commoners, the hierarchy is quite strict, the Zhou people believe that "the order of the upper and lower levels, then the people are not slow", even the diet in the sacrifice activities, the Tianzi can enjoy the prison, and the Shuzi can only eat vegetables, and the sacrifice uses fish.
"Mozi" said: "The ancient people did not know for the diet, vegetarian and divided", that is to say, the common people in ancient times, most of the usual diet is vegetarian, thinking that they "for food, enough to increase the gas and inflate, strengthen the body and stomach is just enough", the diet of the commoners is more still at the bottom, that is, food and clothing, in order to survive, has not yet reached the level of so-called cuisine, not to mention what will be food among the commoners. The foodies of the real ancient world are all from the princes of tianzi, at least the nobles of a certain country. "Tianzi Jiuding, Seven Princes, Qing Dafu Five, Yuan Shi Three", these eating utensils, the higher the class, the more complex they are.
The commoners were responsible for their own diet, while the Tianzi nobles had special dietary officials. Many of the Tianzi nobles had foodies, visited the world for food, and even let the vassal countries serve food every year, and some even had disputes over food, resulting in civil unrest in the court. For example, because the cook did not make a good bear paw, the Jin Linggong directly killed and dismembered the cook; there were also people who offered the big turtle to Zheng Linggong, and Zheng Linggong was happy in his heart, so he invited the Chaozhong foodie Zijia and the Zigong to share the food, and as a result, there was a contradiction at the banquet because of the question of who tasted it first, and later the Zi family and the Zigong joined forces to launch a civil unrest to kill Zheng Linggong; there was also the King of Chucheng, who also asked the rebellious courtiers to eat the bear paw when he was dying.
Later, in the Spring and Autumn Warring States, the world of strife arose, those declining princes and nobles were exiled to the people, living with the commoners, that is, some of the food customs enjoyed by the upper nobles were brought to the people, and the commoners also knew that the diet of the upper nobles was so luxurious, even scholars such as the saints Confucius and Mencius were particularly envious of the food of the noble houses. Confucius "in Qi heard "Shao", March did not know the taste of meat", on the one hand, said the beauty of "Shao" music, but on the other hand, it is also said that meat is delicious, Mencius also said that "chickens, guinea pigs, dogs and animals, without losing time, seventy people can eat meat", thinking that the commoners should be able to eat meat often, that is, quite happy things.
For example, most scholars of the Spring and Autumn Warring States have studied the matter of diet, such as Confucius, who "does not allow his sauce, do not eat." Although there is a lot of meat, it does not make it better to eat gas... Do not withdraw ginger food, do not eat more", this is obviously the way to eat a reasonable combination. And Yan Bao has "and like a soup, water and fire, salt plum to cook fish and meat, burn it to pay." Zaifu and Zhi, in unison, to save it, to vent it", it is said that the method of cooking meat soup, to master the heat, to master the auxiliary materials, to restrain the fishy taste of fish, the aroma of the accessories is emitted, fused into the fish, in order to eat the real cuisine. It can be seen that Confucius and Yanzi are considered gourmets.