The main idea of the story is that Zhu Yuanzhang ate the hair in the soup and was very angry. The chef was called and prepared to plead guilty. As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the chef was bald. Whose hair is this? Chef Guan Guanglu used his quick wits and replied that it was "dragon beard meat" rather than hair.
Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang turned anger into joy, and a group of people in the imperial kitchen narrowly missed and dodged a bullet.
This story is short and simple, but there is actually a lot of interesting ancient cultural knowledge behind it.
From this, let's talk about the ancient food culture and Zhu Yuanzhang's diet.
Zhu Yuanzhang
What to eat and how to eat are never trivial. Opening ancient novels, the description of diet is very rich. For example, in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Guan and Zhang Fei hosted a banquet and drank wine in Taoyuan, and Wang Yun hosted a banquet for Dong Zhuo, which was so rich that they went hand in hand with each other. In "Water Margin", Wu Dalang's sesame seed cake, Sun Erniang's good wine, good meat and big steamed bread, Liangshan hero "eats meat in large pieces and drinks in a big bowl"; A Dream of Red Mansions describes a variety of banquet scenes, such as birthday party, birthday party, invitation party, lovesickness party, lunch party, Lantern Festival party and so on. , which contains rich and colorful folk culture, food culture, as well as the author's description of 100 kinds of delicious food, which makes people salivate and have endless aftertaste.
There are many good things, how to eat them? In Cao Xueqin's and Lan Xiao Sheng's works, the forms of separate dining system and * * * separate dining system are really appetizing. The separate meal system is similar to western food, and * * * meal is our most frequent way to eat. "Sitting around the table, holding chopsticks and holding vegetables" is the basic feature of the * * * meal system.
The ancient meal-sharing system originated from backward social productive forces, and the way of distributing food relatively evenly was actually the embryonic form of the meal-sharing system.
In the Zhou Dynasty, the productive forces developed and the etiquette system was constantly improved. In Ji Yan, there are some rules, such as "tell a story and have a banquet, but have a banquet with words". Although the catering etiquette tends to be hierarchical, and although the * * * dining system became popular in the upper class, the dining system was an important way to reflect the identity of the guest and the host in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang
Some people think that the high-legged tables and chairs of the Hu people in the Tang Dynasty were introduced into the Central Plains, and people's eating styles changed. In the murals of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, nine men and women sit around a table, each with a set of tableware, and the table is filled with all kinds of food. We can infer that the * * meal system appeared at least in the Tang Dynasty.
In the Ming Dynasty when Zhu Yuanzhang lived, * * * rice was an indisputable way to eat.
Does Zhu Yuanzhang eat hair when eating or when eating?
In some versions of literary works, it is said that Zhu Yuanzhang had dinner with Ma Huanghou. So, this meal should be a * * * meal.
Through the writings of Lanling Xiaoxisheng and others, we find that * * * meals in the Ming Dynasty mainly appeared in daily family meals and private gatherings of friends. The catering system mainly appears in ostentation and extravagance and etiquette.
As husband and wife, Ma Huanghou and Zhu Yuanzhang have been sharing weal and woe and have deep feelings. Want to come to such a couple, in daily life, nature is also * * * to eat and drink harmoniously.
In some versions of the story, the hair that Zhu Yuanzhang ate was called "Pearl Jade White Jade Soup". According to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang likes this stew of cabbage, spinach and tofu very much.
Zhu Yuanzhang
Legend has it that when Zhu Yuanzhang was young, he didn't beg for food for many days and once fainted in the street. Later, he was saved by a kind old woman. The old man's family is also very poor, leaving only some leaves, tofu and crispy rice residue. The old man made a living by cooking a bowl of "hodgepodge" for Zhu Yuanzhang. As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang was refreshed and asked the old woman what she had drunk for herself. The old man jokingly replied: "Pearl jade white jade soup".
It is this simple "Zhuyu Baiyutang" that Zhu Yuanzhang will never forget in his life.
In fact, this is a simple "delicious", and the seasoning used is even simpler-salt.
The simplest dish will often become a memory that people can't give up for life. Zhu Yuanzhang is like this, so will most people.