Sea cucumber has a long history of consumption in China and is a model of medicinal and food homology.
According to historical records, the sea cucumber for consumption began in the Three Kingdoms period, Wu Shen Ying's "Chronicle of The Aliens of the Linhai Sea" described the sea cucumber as "earth flesh, just black, such as a child's arms are large, five inches long, with an abdomen, no mouth, thirty feet, hot food." "Earthy meat" refers to sea cucumbers.
By the Wei and Jin dynasties, sea cucumbers began to become a delicacy in the feast. advance. Guo Pu wrote in "Jiang Fu" that "jade is now in the sea moon, soil meat Shihua", comparing "soil meat" (sea cucumber) with "yujiao" (cow horn river clams), "shihua" and other precious ingredients.
The real list of sea cucumbers as seafood treasures was during the Ming Dynasty.
The value of sea cucumbers is described in the "Five Miscellaneous Tricks" written by Ming Xie Zhaozhuo: "In the past, people regarded lychee, oyster house, sub-fish and seaweed as the four beauties. Oysters bear stone as a house, tired like mountains, the so-called oysters also. Not only does it taste good, but it also benefits people. Its shell can be burned into ash, and it is also superior to lime. Sub-fish, seaweed; seaside regular products, not surprising, has not yet been as good as the liaodong sea cucumber, gill ear. Sea cucumber, its sexual temperature supplement, enough enemy ginseng, so the name of sea cucumber. ”
The "Min Xiao Ji" written by Ming Zhou Lianggong described the sea cucumber produced in Putian, Fujian Province: "The sea cucumber in Fujian Province, with its color monologue, is like a bamboo stick, as big as a palm, and is different from Jiaozhou and Liaohai, and its taste is also inferior.
Ming Zhou Lianggong's "Min Xiao Ji"
During the Qing Dynasty, a large number of history books recorded the edible and medicinal value of sea cucumbers. clear. Wu Yiluo's "Materia Medica" discusses the value of sea cucumbers: "sweet, salty, warm, tonify the kidneys, and cure impotence."
The "Compendium of Materia Medica" edited by Qing Zhao Xuemin contains "sea cucumber tonify the kidney meridian, benefit the essence, eliminate phlegm and salivation, take urination, aphrodisiac, safe fetal production, guaiac and anti-inflammatory, hundred pulses of blood, cure ulcer maggots, activate blood stasis, cure diarrhea".
The "Materia Medica Seeking Origin" edited by Qing Zhao Qiguang mentions that "sea cucumber runs the five viscera, nourishes sperm and production, nourishes yin and blood, jianyang, moisturizes, regulates menstruation, raises fetuses, and diuretics." ”
Qing Materia Medica's "Examination of the Medicinal Properties of Pulse Medicine" is written: "Sea cucumber can reduce fire, nourish the kidneys, moisturize the intestines, and remove labor and dispel diseases."
Qing Wang Shixiong's "Dietary Recipes with the Bureau of Rest" is a work of dietary health care, which discusses the edible value of sea cucumbers as follows: "Nourishing yin, tonifying blood, jianyang, moisturizing, regulating menstruation, raising fetuses, and giving birth, all postpartum and post-illness aging people should be simmered with ham or pigs and mutton."
With the general improvement of people's living standards and the continuous enhancement of health awareness, consumers have a new pursuit of quality of life, as one of the traditional tonics in China, sea cucumbers are gradually moving towards the table of ordinary consumers. Especially in recent years, people's work and life rhythm is getting faster and faster, the pressure is increasing, "weak and weak" and "sub-health" state has become a common phenomenon, eating sea cucumber is gradually becoming a trend of people's daily health care.
ChangshengDao tribute ginseng reminds you: when buying sea cucumbers, please choose a regular brand and look for national organic certification
For more knowledge of sea cucumbers, please pay attention to the series of articles on Changsheng Island.
Content reference: Liu Qi, Cao Rong, Wang Yufu edited "Magical Sea Cucumber"