At the Spring Festival Gala in Henan in 2021, "Tang Palace Night Banquet" is on fire, and the ancient young ladies dressed in Tang Dynasty dresses are lively and playful, as if they have come from a thousand years ago. At the same time, the Hanfu and Tang cultural scenic spots that were also brought with them were on fire.
Running through the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty is the Central Plains culture marked by the capital Luoyang. Henan has left a lot of Tang Dynasty marks, such as Tang Sancai's important kiln mouth is in Henan, the queen Wu Zetian, who loves Luoyang the most, personally pointed out that many specialties of Henan have become court tributes, and the Tang Dynasty people also love to eat wild vegetables and snacks, these gifts from a thousand years ago, do not come to taste?
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The Tang Palace Night Feast brought fire to the national tide
The prosperity in Chinese heart continues to this day
Two days ago, when YuJi's friends visited the Henan Museum, they happened to meet the 14 young ladies and sisters of the Tang Palace Night Banquet who were recording the program.
More and more information revealed that they were about to stage the interesting "Henan Museum Lantern Wonderful Night" at the Lantern Festival Gala in Henan Province.
Dusty music and dance pictures, solidified music and dance figurines... When the music sounds, these national treasures, which should be sleeping in the glass display cases of the museum, seem to have passed through the museum to the palace.
Speaking of the Tang Dynasty, the Longmen Grottoes Scenic Area announced that all tourists wearing Hanfu during the Lantern Festival can experience the Night Tour Longmen Project for free, and they can also receive a palace lamp for free.
The new national tide has once again reached a climax because of the program "Tang Palace Night Banquet".
I see that many young sisters still hold tang dynasty hair buns when they wear Tang Dynasty dresses, and even elaborately, they also paint Tang Dynasty fashionable makeup on their faces.
The Tang Dynasty, Chinese the most proud of the prosperous world.
He has brought many "gifts" to modern people.
The most widely known is the porcelain of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Sancai.
In a batch of Sui and Tang Dynasty ceramics auctioned by Christie's and Sotheby's, there was a pair of three-colored pottery horses, which sold for 4,197,000 US dollars.
This pair of horses
I thought that such a fine ceramic product, only the Ru kiln Jun kiln such a kiln mouth is burned, did not expect that all these ceramic works are from a kiln mouth in Henan that is now little known - Gongxian kiln.
The Gongxian kiln was an important kiln mouth during the Tang Dynasty, and the kiln site was in Gongxian (present-day Gongyi City), which was the most important kiln site for firing Tang Sancai that had been discovered.
In addition to Tang Sancai, Gongxian kilns have a variety of fired porcelain, especially white porcelain, which is very exquisite, and some of them have also been tributes.
Of course, not only Tang Sancai, but also Tang Dynasty was not ambiguous in drinking tea.
Tea in the Tang Dynasty was completely different from tea today. The tea they drink is a "paste-spicy soup" made of tea powder boiled into a paste, and then added mint orange peel salt shallot ginger.
However, the tea affairs that Lu Yu focused on in the Tang Dynasty were handed down.
He once inspected tea in Huainan and listed Huainan Tea Gwangju (present-day Huangchuan County, Xinyang City) as the upper, followed by Yiyang (present-day Xinyang).
That is to say, Huangchuan's tea is even better than Xinyang tea.
Eating, drinking and having fun, the Tang Dynasty brought Henan a variety of gifts that continue to this day.
What kinds of noodles does the queen like to eat?
Speaking of gifts from the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian is definitely the person who carries the most goods from Henan.
For example, the fishing noodles we eat now are actually formerly known as the "cold tao" that the Tang Dynasty loved to eat. ”
Before Wu Zetian entered the palace, she went to the noodle restaurant with the lover of Qingmei Bamboo Horse to eat noodles, and it was very hot that day, and she suddenly wanted to develop a "cold tao" with the shop owner, which was also Wu Zetian's birthday. When she became a queen, she missed the scene at that time, and let the imperial chef do "cold shopping" every birthday, a habit that did not change until her death.
Whether this is true or not is impossible to verify, but "cold tao" was indeed born in the Tang Dynasty, when it was called "locust leaf cold tao", which is a summer food to cool off.
In fact, "cold tao" is noodles fished out over cold water, I don't know if there was any jing mustard at that time, anyway, garlic cloves are there, Tang Dynasty people super love to eat garlic.
There were no tomatoes in the Tang Dynasty
The Queen also likes a kind of hollow noodles in Huangchuan, Henan today.
At that time in the Tang Dynasty, Huangchuan was called "Gwangju", and the Gwangju Chronicle said that at that time, there was a kind of noodles produced there, which was a tribute to the court, and there was a saying that "the wind sold Huaxia and won the championship of Kyushu", which was called "Gwangju Kui noodles".
A grand celebration was held on the occasion of the 100 days of the Queen's accession to the throne.
In order to fully show her foodie essence, she often wants to be one out of the box. As soon as his head was hot, he gave a decree to the history of Gwangju: "In previous years, the noodles of Gwangju tribute were all solid, and now they have been changed to a new generation, and within three months, they must make hollow noodles for the 100-day festival to eat." ”
In the end, the thorn Shi Lord who was forced to go to Liangshan really found someone to make it, and the queen held the bowl, only to see that the semi-transparent noodles were as thin as hair, and when they ate a bite, they simply blurted out: "Gwangju noodles, it is actually the leader of the noodles!" Then, Gwangju Noodles had the title of "Que Noodles".
The kids next door were crying
Until now, Huangchuan's hollow noodles are also very famous, handmade, fine enough to pass through the needle, the middle of the noodles is still hollow, can be used as a straw in the water to blow bubbles. It has been included in the Catalogue of Chinese Famous Foods, and in 2013 it also became a "National Geographical Indication Protection Product". In addition, it was included in the second batch of intangible cultural heritage list of Xinyang City.
Gwangju is left with more than just hollow noodles.
And the turtle.
Eating old turtles in Xinyang is not rare, but it is a great enjoyment.
Which family's banquet is slightly of a grade, there must be an old turtle pressing the table; Xinyang people invite you to eat, if there is an old turtle, then you are definitely not an ordinary person in his heart; in the Xinyang family, the elderly relatives can also use the old turtle to express their preference, the child comes to eat the turtle, and his child comes to eat ribs.
Gwangju Chronicle records that the Tang Dynasty had the saying that "Gwangju horseshoe turtles crushed the streets", in the Qing Dynasty, Gwangju had special people to catch old turtles for the royal family to cook and eat, as one of the three best in Gwangju, the horseshoe turtle was also a tribute to the court at that time.
I don't know, then the queen of heaven likes to eat old turtles or not.
Which ones were made into tributes?
Huang Sang is really good at making local specialties into tribute.
坻武 is two administrative villages in Rencun Township in the northeast of Shichi County, divided into South Diwu and North Diwu.
According to legend, in the sixteenth year of Tang Zhenyuan, Emperor Dezong occasionally tasted the millet offered by the local people, and the so-called short mouth of eating people, so the emperor said, such a good rice, how good it is to make gongmi!
Then, after nine hundred years, the Qianlong Emperor also came to join in the fun, and I went, such delicious rice, Gongmi Gongmi, must Be Gongmi! As a result, the millet of The Dock became Gongmi.
Zhuxian Town, famous long before the development of shipping in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
A few centimeters square piece of dried tofu weighing only 15 grams is the key.
This piece of dried small tofu has to be boiled for ten times.
The brine soup is also very exquisite.
Large, small fennel, cloves, tangerine peel, cardamom, sand kernels, galangal and other spices together composed of more than a dozen spices to create a rich taste level of Zhuxian town fragrant dried; after the sun, breeze cooking, dried tofu continues to ferment, and finally form the essence of Zhuxian town five-spiced dried tofu.
Such a good thing naturally concealed the mouths of the people in the palace, and during the Tang Dynasty, the dried spiced tofu in Zhuxian Town became a tribute.
Spring is coming, not only Henan people like to eat wild vegetables, Tang Dynasty people also like.
The above-mentioned Emperor Dezong summoned his subjects to eat purslane soup, and purslane soup is food cooked with wild purslane.
Harm, purslane, which Henan people have not eaten it.
Colliers, yes, is the Colliers who took off his boots for Li Bai, in fact, people's literary style is particularly good.
He was once exiled to Wuzhou (present-day Huaihua City, Hunan) after the Yang Guifei Incident, and when he saw that there were many cabbages in the valley and the people here did not eat them, he was very emotional, and sent a poem: "The two capitals are sold for pounds, and the Five Streams are not picked." Although Yixia is different, the smell will not change'.
It can be seen that the Central Plains people really like cabbage, but the southerners seem to dislike it.
I don't know, whether the Tang Dynasty people liked the pancakes and dumplings, after all, pancakes and dumplings were available in the Tang Dynasty.
A while ago, our office also bought Dengfeng mustard shreds.
Dengfeng mustard shreds
Paired with burnt pancakes, it's great.
In fact, Dengfeng mustard silk is also related to the Tang Dynasty.
According to yeshi legend, Li Shimin, emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, once ate this dish and was amazed when he took refuge in the Shaolin Temple.
Well, the first time I ate shredded mustard, it was the same as Shimin Sang's feelings. Refreshing, slightly spicy, can't stop.
When Wu Zetian was visiting The Song Mountains, he had a cold in the Shishu River. After eating mustard shreds, her condition was much better, and then the queen waved her big hand and listed Dengfeng shredded mustard as the imperial medicinal diet.
It is said that in order to strengthen the body, generations of Shaolin martial arts practitioners have this dish necessary for daily breakfast, which has been passed down to this day.
Probably because of the slightly spicy shredded mustard, eat the characteristics of sweating.
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