In the Sui and Tang dynasties, social and economic development, the progress of production technology and tools made people's productivity a great liberation, so in addition to food and clothing, people had a higher study of "eating" and made more tricks for staple foods. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, what new tricks did the ancients have in terms of staple food?
In the fields in the south of the Yangtze River, people made a new agricultural tool Quyuan plow, so that the efficiency of farming was greatly improved, and the national water conservancy was built, and there were stricter standards for the water used by crops, which made the level of agricultural production at that time progress, especially in the Tang Dynasty, there was a grand occasion of "rice flowing fat and corn white, and public and private warehouses were abundant". Under the premise of abundant living materials, people have higher requirements for "eating", and they all hope to be able to eat more exquisite and delicious.
At that time, there was a specially made rice called Seiki-keen. The production of this kind of rice requires the use of a southern plant called "Nan Candle", people need to mash the branches and leaves of the South Candle wood to obtain a blue-black juice, and soak the rice into this juice, after nine steaming and nine exposures, the rice grains will become compact and small, and the color will be pitch black, just like black beads. According to the records of the "Compendium of Materia Medica", this kind of rice can strengthen the muscles and nourish the skin, and can also whiten and anti-aging. What's more, what's even more amazing is that the rice made in this way can be stored for a long time and is not easy to spoil, making it perfect for home and travel.
In addition to rice, people have also taken the research of pasta to the next level, and many new tricks have been played. In Xinjiang, a batch of noodles produced in the Tang Dynasty were unearthed, with strange shapes, which shows that people had already studied pasta at that time. As early as the Sui and Tang dynasties, there have been foods such as wontons and dumplings in China, but the names are not uniform, some are called "prison pills", some are called "flat food", and some are called "glaive", and in the "Beihu Lu", the name of wonton has also appeared: "Today's wonton, shaped like the glaive, is eaten all over the world." "As early as the Tang Dynasty thousands of years ago, wontons were already a common type of noodle. In "Youyang Miscellaneous", there is a mention of a very popular wonton shop in the Tang Dynasty, saying that the wontons made by this company can be directly used to make tea by skimming the soup with oil, which shows the superb craftsmanship of the production.
In addition to the above, the ancients naturally had many tricks for staple foods, and they also liked to give these foods beautiful and poetic names, such as "Huaiye Lengtao" refers to today's cold noodles, and "Yujing rice" refers to steamed lotus root bibimbap. Today, it seems that the ancients were really very tasteful in eating.