Guangdong has "three gingers", ginger, southern ginger and sand ginger, and the kaempfera is the dried sand ginger. Many people today are not too unfamiliar with the name of Yamana, but the name Yamanai is not too loud in history, and the reason for all this is related to the fact that the merchant confuses the real with the fake.
According to the more authoritative statement, the time of Shannai's discovery can be traced back to the Qin and Han dynasties, in the Han Dynasty's book "Shuowen Jie Zi" in a kind of aromatic plant called Ya, and then in our Three Kingdoms period in the book "Guangya" will be this aromatic plant and another name "Lian Jiang" together, and this Lian Jiang is actually our protagonist today's Shannai, that is, Sha Jiang. However, it is very strange that for a long time in ancient times, Lian Jiang and Shannai were like two different species, why is this?
Many times businessmen are not constrained by rules, they are often mercenary, and there does not seem to have changed much in ancient and modern times. Ancient Lian ginger is mainly produced in our Lingnan area, it is difficult to obtain after leaving the Lingnan area, coupled with the blockage of information transmission in ancient times, so merchants in the area outside Lingnan to use the rhizome of Huashan ginger as Lian ginger to sell, over time it appeared to be fake and true, to the Song Dynasty, Lian Jiang and Shannai have become two different species in the mouth of many scholars.
Time came to the Ming Dynasty, Master Li Shizhen raised questions for the first time in his writings, under the study of Master Li Shizhen, he wrote "the so-called ancient Lian Jiang, afraid of its kind" when describing Shannai in his works, this sentence once again linked the name of Shannai and Lian Jiang together. After the Ming Dynasty, people began to realize the use of ginger as cooking, especially in the Qing Dynasty, for a long time Guangzhou was the only foreign trade port, with the development of the economy, Guangzhou's cuisine has also developed greatly, and ginger as a spice native to Guangdong has also ushered in the peak of application, not only in the face of chicken and poultry ingredients, but also in some dishes that need to highlight the freshness and are not suitable for the use of ginger to obtain its unique application space.