Chinese culture has a long history, and Chinese cuisine has also been continuously integrated with human civilization. The Chinese nation is a delicious nation, the eight major cuisines are various flavors, cooking methods are diverse, the ingredients and dishes are rich, and it is guaranteed that they will not be the same for a month.
Chinese gastronomic culture has two peaks, one is the Tang and Song dynasties, and the other is the Ming and Qing dynasties. Before the Song Dynasty, ordinary people only ate two meals a day and lived in poverty, but the upper class of the Tang Dynasty had begun to pursue the enjoyment of food. In the Song Dynasty, the culture of elegance and customs was integrated, and the cuisine was unprecedentedly prosperous and developed, and people also changed from two meals to three meals. In the Tang Dynasty, there were only three ways of cooking food: boiling, steaming and roasting, and now some other cooking methods such as stir-frying, burning, brine, bursting, slipping, waxing, and scallions were all made by the Song Dynasty. Now many cuisines were also invented in the Song Dynasty, such as Dongpo meat, hot pot, fritters, tangyuan, popcorn. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, due to the discovery of the American continent, new food species were brought to China, such as tomatoes, peppers, sweet potatoes, etc. It has greatly enriched the food categories on the daily table, and the arrival of chili peppers has opened up new taste buds of Sichuan and Hunan cuisine.
Today, let's take stock of the unexpected things about food during the Tang, Song and Qing dynasties.
<h1>Tang - popular eating of wild animals</h1>
In the Tang Dynasty, cattle could not be slaughtered, cattle were protected as the main labor force for farming, and there were very few pigs, so they mainly ate sheep. For the rich, they also like to eat camels. The roasted hump is from the western region and is very Hu people. General Qu Lianghan was good at roasting donkey manes and humps. Before roasting, the hump is cut into thin slices and added with various spicy ingredients, the hump is a camel's energy storage, contains a lot of fat, roasted and eaten may be very fragrant.
In addition to camels, there are also some wild animals on the table of the aristocratic Tang people, which can be said to be "nothing to eat". For example, elephants, eating roasted elephant trunks; there are beautiful peacocks, Tang people are willing to eat, it is said that peacock meat and duck meat taste very similar, can be made into jerky; cruel way to eat is to use monkey brain to make soup, it is said to be a big supplement. The most unacceptable thing is that the Tang people in the southwest Shu land actually used cockroaches to drink and fry cockroaches, which was too terrifying...
Now that cherishing wild animals has been protected, we still have to call for not learning like the Tang people and caring for wild animals, starting from you and me. Fortunately, the development of cuisine in the Song Dynasty is relatively rich, and there are more delicious foods, and there will be fewer people who eat wild game.
<h1>Song - Su Shi not only invented Dongpo meat, but also a dish called Dongpo can come to a dozen. </h1>
As the saying goes, it is gold that always shines. Then a person who can shine can shine in many ways. The great talent Su Shi is not only a first-class literary level, but also a gourmet. Su Shi was relegated to Huangzhou in the "Wutai Poetry Case", and the frustration of the officialdom did not make this uninhibited talent restrained, but unlocked a new field - food.
There is a place called Dongpo in Huangzhou, Where Su Shi cultivates the land, self-titled "Dongpo Resident", so some of the delicacies he invented are named after "Dongpo", such as Dongpo elbow, Dongpo fish, Dongpo tofu, Dongpo soup, Dongpo jade mixing, Dongpo buds, Dongpo bean flowers, etc., are All made by Su Shi himself, the most famous of which is Dongpo meat.
There are also some foods related to Su Shi, named after Dongpo. For example, Dongpo cake is Su Dongpo for an old woman to mention poetry, praising her cake crisp and delicious, in order to commemorate Su Shi, so named Dongpo cake. Dongpo crisp is named Dongpo crisp because the filling in the pastry is Dongpo meat.
<h1>Qing - the misunderstanding brought by the name, what is the Manchu Han full table, Gongbao Chicken Ding and Sixi Pills is not what you think! </h1>
In the Qing Dynasty, the cuisine was exceptionally rich. You can tell from the emperor's table. The imperial meal of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty generally only had nine dishes, the emperor of the Song Dynasty could have almost thirty dishes in a meal, and the emperor of the Qing Dynasty could eat a meal with a hundred or so dishes. In particular, Empress Dowager Cixi had to have a hundred dishes per meal. So do you think this is the legendary Manchu full table? In fact, it is not, in the Qing Dynasty, there was no such thing as a Manchu Han full seat. The Manchu Han full table is actually derived from a cross-talk, that is, the famous dish name of the spoken word, purely folk literary creation, was spread into the Full Han Table.
There are also some dishes that come as a surprise. For example, the four joy pills, the current six joy pills are a wedding feast, the mandatory dish on the birthday feast, taking the meaning of happy events and other festive meanings. But in fact, Sixi Maruzi means to curse Empress Dowager Cixi. When the Eight-Power Alliance entered Beijing, Cixi fled to Xi'an, and after the signing of the Treaty of Xinugu, Cixi decided to return to Beijing. Along the way, the people were asked to welcome them and create a look of peace in the world. Passing through Henan, Cixi wanted to taste Henan's specialties, and when the local chef cooked the dishes, he used the balls as Cixi curses while making the balls, blowing up the Cixi who had brought calamity to the country and the people. So this dish took a consonant name, which originally meant "Cixi End". However, when serving, it is interpreted as "four joy balls", which means that various happy events are complete.
Another dish, Gong Bao Chicken Ding, who did not know, thought that Gong Bao was a practice, but in fact, Ding Baozhen, the governor of Sichuan who invented this dish, also had an official title of Prince Taibao, which belonged to an honorary false title. During the xianfeng emperor, it was popular to call the prince Taibao "Gong bao", so the chicken made by Ding Baozhen was also called gongbao chicken ding.
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