Three meals a day is a special thing that has human fireworks
When it comes to fireworks, we have to mention barbecue
Eating barbecue is a very common way of life in our present
Roadside stall three or two friends a table of grilled skewers beautiful zizi
So in ancient times, people also had barbecues to eat?
Ancient times – barbecue is about survival
600,000 years ago, the Beijing ape people who came to live in Zhoukoudian already knew how to grill food, and at that time, there were no pots and pans, and they could only grill meat on the fire. Since then, he has bid farewell to the slow life of Ru Mao drinking blood.
During the Shang Zhou Dynasty, the baking method began to upgrade
During this period, people developed three methods: cannon, burnt and burning. Burning is a word that is split up and down, the upper half is meat, the lower part is fire, which means that the meat is roasted on the fire.
Wei and Jin Dynasties – Barbecue was a eating habit
There is a chapter on "Burning Methods" in the "Qi Min Zhi Shu" written by Beiqi Jia Sixun, which details 21 ways of grilling meat, which can be described as a rich barbecue recipe.
Song and Yuan Dynasties - a hundred flowers bloomed
The Song Dynasty was rich in foodies, and the Yuan people who entered the Central Plains from the steppe were quite exquisite in grilling meat. Common ingredients are cattle, dogs, chicken, pigs, deer, etc., of which venison is slightly different from the previous ones, venison is game, need to rely on hunting to obtain, crispy skin, tender meat, can be described as the dignity of the court meal.
As steep as barbecue, the fate of deer has been recorded since there were chinese texts. There are many words in the oracle bone bubi about "elk birds", "chasing deer", "shooting deer", "getting deer", "drawing deer", "getting roe deer" and so on.
In the 14th century BC, King Duan Built a Deer Garden with a height of "Three Miles, Thousands of Feet High"; the 21st Kiln of the Yungang Grottoes of Datong celebrated Shakyamuni's 35th birthday with a deer feast and deer carvings...
(Gansu Jiayuguan Wei Jin tomb "eat barbecue" brick painting)
In the Han Dynasty, the pawns would also use deer as dry food, and deer breasts were dried venison in order to strengthen their bodies.
By the Qing Dynasty, the ancestors of the rulers made a living from fishing and hunting
The most common game hunted when going out hunting is deer
Manchu venison is cooked simply or grilled
Whole piece of fat venison, fork rack charcoal on fire
Frequently sweep the brine, both sides are cooked, sliced
In addition to venison, deer tail and deer tongue are famous appetizers
They believe that the sika deer is full of treasures, not only venison can be eaten, but even the deer's head cannot be wasted.
The Qi Min Yao Shu • Tang Zhen Method records a dish called "Qiang Boiling", which is done as follows: good deer head, pure cooking, washed in water, and cured, such as two fingers of large fine ginger and orange peel each half together, a little pepper. Serve bitter wine, salt and soy sauce. A deer head, made of two pounds of pork.
In today's terms, a cooked deer head, cut the meat into pieces, and added to the broth made with pork can also be considered a soup dish made of venison.
The Kangxi Emperor once won 11 deer in one day, and his skills were even more skilled than professional hunters, and he also "boasted" that "the deer have been sent around, and many have been killed, and what a miracle there is."
The Qianlong Emperor almost every year to mulan paddock or Nanyuan hunting, after practicing riding and shooting skills, but also in the warm sun with everyone to "picnic", can be called the ancients in the spring tour of the most noodle dinner, there is a picture and the truth ↓
The picture above is painted in April of the fourteenth year of Qianlong (1749), after the Qianlong Emperor and his party finished hunting, waiting for the attendants to enjoy the spoils of war with venison skins, cut venison, braised deer soup, and roasted venison.
Every New Year's Festival, the emperor would distribute venison to the empress, concubines and favored subjects, and there was no lack of sika deer in the daily diet.
It can be seen that since ancient times, deer are treasures, from deer antler velvet to deer tail are nourishing and healthy products, which can be called "Hermes in food".