The ancients said: "The crystal of grass is in the flower, the peach blossom is in the spring, the chrysanthemum is in the autumn, the lotus is in the summer, and the plum blossom is in the winter." The flowers of the four hours are uneven in color, and their matching with people is also the same. Pan Yue is like a peach, Tao Yuanliang is like a chrysanthemum, Zhou Yuangong is like a lotus, Lin and Jing are like plums..." With flowers as a metaphor for people, the flowers at four o'clock are endowed with human character, feeling the bosom and unique atmosphere outside the flower rhyme. The Southern Song Dynasty literary scholar Yang Wanli wrote a poem after eating plum blossom porridge, "Only after seeing the spring after seeing the wax, I saw the snow drifting before the wind." The harvest will be boiled porridge to eat, and the fall is still good as a fragrant roast. "An ordinary bowl of porridge adds a bit of elegant and simple charm because of plum blossoms."
In accordance with the seasons, eating flowers is as elegant and interesting as tasting tea and reading poetry. Ancient books say that immortals "eat peach and plum leaves", and the ancients' recipes for studying meal flowers and drinking dew often came from the pen of the literati. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is believed that eating flowers can be beauty and skin care, brain and intellectual, and make people deaf and clear, so we select a few seasonal flowers from them and try to restore the ancient people's flower eating scene to feed the kings.
The peach is dying, scorching its glory.
The son of Yu Gui, it is advisable to his room.
—— "Poetry Classic, Guofeng, Zhou Nan"
In spring, the floating clouds gather and disperse, the flowers are red and willowy green, the delicate peach blossoms are in full bloom, and the smoke is like a sea of crimson clouds, and the bees and butterflies attract the envy of passers-by. Peach blossoms, peach trees, and peaches have been loved by the public since ancient times.
Peach blossom taste bitter, flat, non-toxic, has the effect of unclogging the veins, water and swelling. To make peach blossom cake, take milk, rock sugar, lotus powder and peach petals, break the washed petals together with milk, add sugar and lotus flour and slowly boil over low heat to form a thick paste, pour into a mold and refrigerate for 2 hours. After the peach blossom cake has solidified, it can be decorated with petals or other decorations. The peach blossom cake that matches a pot of fragrant tea in the middle of the day, the fragrance is soft, and the peach blossom cake that melts in the mouth is the most appropriate.
Nicknamed the new makeup jade with brilliance, Su'e thousand teams into the snow surrounded.
I know that the aunt shoots the real fairy, and the heavenly widow tried on the feather coat.
The shadow fell on the empty steps at the beginning of the cold moon, and the evening breeze of the Xiangsheng Villa was faint.
Yuhuan Feiyanyuan was an enemy of each other, and smiled more than Jiang Mei did not hate fat.
- "Wing Yu Lan " ( Ming ) Wen Zhengming
The period of economic prosperity is also the flourishing period of food culture. In the eyes of the ancients who were constantly exploring new ingredients, spending flowers into the food best satisfies the ancient people's pursuit of adapting to the seasons and tasting nature. "Fried flower slices" is a popular one among the literati of Fengya. Wang Xiangjin of the Ming Dynasty wrote in the "Qunfang Genealogy" that the noodles are fried with magnolia flowers, and the outer layer of golden and crisp batter hides the white jade-like magnolia petals; a gold-encrusted jade wrapped in jade, the fragrance is pleasant, and people have not yet lifted the spoon to the bottom of the heart. Magnolia, also known as Xinyi, is beneficial to lung qi, disperse wind and cold, through the nose, nourish the yin and beauty effect. Fried flower slices can be both pleasing to the eye and satisfying, which is really elegant. The poem describes the newly opened white and elegant magnolia flowers, as if a colorful beauty has just decorated her face and glows with a jade-like brilliance. Similar "fried flower pieces" in addition to magnolias commonly have fried lotus petals, there is another kind of fragrance in it.
Urn Cheng snow water brews spring cold, honey point plum blossom with dew meal.
There is no smoke and fire in the sentence, and it teaches who goes to the Shaoling Altar.
- "Honey Stained Plum Blossom" (Song) Yang Wanli
Plum branches can be admired, and plum blossoms can be eaten. In addition to the metaphor of high purity, plum blossoms are also loved by literati and scholars because of their easy availability of raw materials and simple cooking. Brew wine with plum blossoms, cook porridge, and make decanting soup. The "honey-stained plum blossoms" in the poem are recorded in Lin Hong's "Mountain Family Qing Offering" in the same period: "Peel a little white plum flesh, soak in snow water, brew it with plum blossoms, and spend the night exposed." Take out the honey stain, you can recommend wine, compared to snow washing tea, the flavor is not different. "And try new tea with new snow, and eat and drink elegantly." Honey-stained plum blossoms are used to accompany wine, and the flavor is no different from that of snow-swept tea, and it has another taste.
Presenting a small but beautiful elegant side in China's successive generations of food culture. The ancients ate flowers, in fact, aesthetic and spiritual comfort, with beautiful flowers into the simple food, reflecting the dieter's dual appeal to taste and spirit.
【Perceiving heaven and earth in nature, harvesting surprises in daily life】
Author: Yan Feng
Editor: Huang Jin
Shi Xiangyun
Signed by: Lu Guang
Producer: Wang Xin
Producer: Hong Lin
New Media, Chinese Global Program Center, China Central Radio and Television Corporation
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