There are thousands of mansions, and the night sleep is no more than six feet; the waist is wrapped in thousands of miles, and the daily eclipse is no more than three meals.
The Chinese are the most food-savvy people, and when we are happy, we look for happiness in food; when we are sad, we find solace in food.
Food nourishes poets, they look for the true taste in vegetables and fruits, in the fresh meat and fish, look for the rich mellow, and create poetry in the food.
The editor sends you 24 food poems, may you find the joy of life in food!
The snow foam milk flower floats in the afternoon cup, and the artemisia shoots try the spring plate. The taste of the world is refreshing.
- Su Shi "Huanxi Sand"
Su Shi and his friends climbed the mountains for picnics, ate wild vegetables on the mountains, drank tea, and realized the true meaning of life: what really tastes in the world is light joy.
Fresh crucian carp silver silk, parsley and green stream.
- Du Fu "Accompanying Zheng Guangwen to General He's Mountains and Forests II"
Fresh crucian carp slices are served with bamboo shoots and shredded bamboo shoots, and fresh and tender parsley picked by the blue water stream is used as a soup. As long as you have the heart, simple wild vegetables can make a good pot of rice.
The night rain cuts the spring leeks, and the yellow sorghum is freshly cooked.
- Du Fu "Gift to the Eight Guards"
Du Fu met an old friend, and the host's family braved the night rain to cut fresh leeks and present freshly cooked yellow rice for him to taste.
The perch is crispy and beautiful, and the buckwheat cooked oil is new and fragrant.
——Lu You, "Early Winter Quatrain"
The sea bass is plump, the mushroom vegetables are crispy, and it is made into a soup with a delicious taste. When the buckwheat is ripe, it is fried to make cakes and eat, which is called a fragrant!
After the white goose is scorched and peppered, the brocade pheasant soup is fragrant at the beginning. The arrows are crispy and sweet to bully the snow mushrooms, and the fern sprouts are precious and tender and pressed spring vegetables.
——Lu You's "Dinner Drama Shows Neighbor Song"
When the roast goose is ready, it is particularly delicious after smearing it with Sichuan peppercorns; when making pheasant soup, it is necessary to put down the tempeh to reveal the fragrance; the tender bamboo shoots of Yuezhou arrow bamboo are more luscious and crispy than the snow-white mushrooms; and the fern sprouts are very precious and tender things, and the taste exceeds that of the best vegetables in spring.
The He family's cage cake must be crossed, and the Xiao family's cooking cake must be broken. The old man is hungry, as long as he swallows one.
——Yang Wanli, "Steamed Cakes"
If you want to say what food is the most hungry, it must be pasta such as cakes and steamed buns, I can't stand it anymore, a hot steamed cake is in my stomach, and I am satisfied. If you're too hungry, you can eat one in one bite!
Gather around the stove and cheer, and the flavors melt into the small cauldron.
- Yan Chen
This is a verse of the Qing Dynasty Jinshi chanting hot pot.
Friends and family gather together to sit by the fire, drink and gossip. The boiling water in Xiaoding is boiling, whoever wants to eat can cook what, the blazing fire is the delicacy of the world, and the boiling water can cook all the delicacies of the world. Hot pot, don't you just eat a happy and lively one.
Xiyou can't bear to cook the fish, so they send the vegetables to the rest of their lives; two liters of rice with corn fragrant and a handful of rice with a handful of rice cooked lightly.
——Lu You, "Mountain Dwelling Food is Not Meat Drama"
A good friend left a fish for Lu You, but he was reluctant to cook, and he used coarse tea and light rice every day to fill his stomach, white rice, and small green vegetables, so that he could eat it deliciously. Autumn delicacies are even more worth mentioning, and you can also eat some fallen chrysanthemums on the edge of the east fence.
The peak of the purple camel comes out of the green cauldron, and the plate of the water spirit is lined with scales.
- Du Fu "Beauty Walking"
The blue-black steamer brings out a brown hump, and the crystal disc brings delicious white-scaled fish.
Sesame 饼样学京都, face brittle oil incense new furnace.
——Bai Juyi, "Jihu Cake and Yang Wanzhou"
Learn the method of the capital to make Hu cakes, just baked Hu cakes, crispy and oily, salivating.
Eat 300 lychees a day, and don't hesitate to be a Lingnan person.
——苏轼《Shokusai Branch》
Su Shi was relegated to Lingnan and fell in love with Lingnan's lychees. If I eat 300 lychees a day, I am willing to be a Lingnan person forever.
Vinegar orange and yellow crab shells, musk lotus leaves peeled chicken heads.
——Liu Chenweng, "Looking at the South of the River, Autumn Scene"
Flip open the bottom cover of the crab, peel off the back of the crab together, the golden paste yellow in the crab's back is displayed in front of you, dip it in the aged vinegar that has been prepared, put it in your mouth, taste it carefully, chew it slowly, and bring the pleasure of the mouth and stomach.
In ancient times, people bought chicken heads because they were cheap. A big bag is only ten cents, because there are no bags. Therefore, the chicken head is wrapped in tender lotus leaves, and with musk, it is very delicious.
I'll reconcile the eels. Naturally sweet in the mouth. No need for vinegar and pepper. It smells like a lot.
——Ma Yu "Xijiang Moon, Go to Hu Gongzhai"
Every poet is a foodie. Ma Yu said, I am the best at making eels, and the entrance is sweet and delicious. Without soy sauce vinegar and salt, it is very fragrant.
At night, the fish is like a lake white, and the luan knife is pounded with jade.
——Zhao Ruqi "On the Summer Stream"
At night, I caught a fish as white as a lake, cut the fish into slices with a knife, and chopped the ginger and garlic. Although the author did not write about the appearance of the fish cooked, from the fact that the fish is as white as jade and the ginger and garlic are fragrant, you can imagine how delicious this fish is.
Raw wine sturgeon will be, side stove clam soup.
——Chen Xianxian, "The Book of Returning to the South"
Side stove: that is, hot pot. The sturgeon clam soup mentioned in the poem is obviously seafood, popular in the Ming Dynasty, and today it is leading the hot pot trend and becoming the mainstream.
Yunzi incense copied jade color fresh, vegetable soup freshly boiled green fiber. There is no such taste in the world, and the sky is sweet and sweet.
——Yang Wanli, "The Smell of Meat in Illness, Duru Vegetable Soup and Rice is Beautiful"
Yang Wanli was sick and couldn't eat meat, only vegetables. The vegetable soup is cooked delicately and emeraldly, Yang Wanli said, even the fish does not have such a good taste!
Water is the township, Peng is a house, fish soup and rice are often eaten.
—— Don · Li Xun "Fisherman's Song, Chu Shanqing"
Making my home on the water, making a house on a boat, eating fish soup and eating rice and rice is my daily life.
Steamed white fish and rice rice, Xitong for bamboo shoots.
——黄庭坚《拨棹子·退居》
Steamed white fish, eating rice, Xitong picked bamboo shoots to make vegetables.
A cup of soup cake is messy, and the silk is like a wisp of pity.
——Huang Tingjian, "Copycat Poems"
This is the Song Dynasty poet Huang Tingjian's description of Tusuomian.
The noodles are as thin as silk and as thin as a thread. From today's point of view, it's just a bowl of the most humble noodles with two boiled eggs.
However, in the era when food was not abundant, Pan'an people were the most grand in hospitality. It is said that the two eggs cannot be eaten yet, and one must be picked out with chopsticks first to show politeness.
The osmanthus fragrant stuffing is wrapped in walnuts, and the river rice is like a pearl well water.
——Fu Zeng, "Shangyuan Bamboo Branch Words"
The sweet osmanthus filling is wrapped in walnut kernels, and the pearl-like rice is washed with well water, which sounds very beautiful.
The jade color is evenly rubbed by hand, and the green oil is fried to produce a tender yellow and deep color. When the night comes to spring sleep, I know the severity, and I flatten the beautiful woman's arm gold.
——Su Shi "Playing Dumplings for Neighbors"
A neighbor's grandmother's steamed dumplings are well done, and Su Shi specially wrote a poem to praise them. Skillfully rubbing the dough, the color is uniform, and when it is fried in the oil pan, it turns into a tender yellow, and it moves ten fingers at a glance.
With only 28 characters, it outlines the characteristics of the ring cake with uniform and fine, fresh color and crispiness, and the image of a beautiful woman.
The first trip to Tang'an rice barley, cooking into a carved Hu Mei. As big as amaranth and white as jade, slippery and fragrant.
——Lu You's "Coix"
Lu You is a gourmet, and the barley he makes himself is soft, white, smooth, and fragrant, so I want to taste it.
There is nothing to be desired in the world, how to exchange for jade.
——Lu You, "Dongting Spring"
"Yuguan" refers to the "golden jade" that Emperor Yang of Sui praised as "the best taste of the southeast". "脍" is a thinly sliced fish; "齑" means chopped pickles or pickles, and by extension, "finely chopped".
"Golden Jade" is made with frosted white sea bass as the main ingredient, mixed with finely chopped golden flowers and leaves. "Silk Ulva is a Ulva soup made of Ulva silk and is also a famous dish in Wu. The dishes that Lu You praised in the poem were indeed famous dishes at that time.
The steamed chicken is the most famous, and the fish and crab are beautiful.
- Lu You's "Dinner Strike"
"彘" means "pig", and "彘骨" is pork chops. Pork ribs are cooked in a sour sauce mixed with spices such as orange shallots or dipped to perfection.
In fact, as long as you are calm and have nothing to worry about, even green vegetables and vegetables can be eaten deliciously. "The taste of the world is pure joy", the greatest joy in life is this light taste!
May you have a fresh breeze and delicious food.