Zhu Yuanzhang ate his hair in his favorite dishes, and the head chef had a brainwave, which helped the chef to excuse himself and won the favor of the emperor. This is a story in the Ming Dynasty literary work "Notes on the Phoenix Tower".

The main idea of the story is that Zhu Yuanzhang ate his hair from the soup and was very angry. Called the chef, ready to plead guilty, as a result, Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the chef was bald. Whose hair is this? Guan Guanglu, the head chef, used his quick wits and replied that it was "dragon beard" rather than hair.

on hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang turned his anger into joy, and a group of people in the imperial kitchen narrowly missed a bullet.

This story is short and simple, but there are actually many interesting ancient cultural knowledge behind it.

So, let's talk about the ancient catering culture and Zhu Yuanzhang's diet.

what and how Zhu Yuanzhang ate was never a trivial matter. Opening ancient novels, the description of diet is very rich. For example, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Guan and Zhang Fei feasted and drank when they became sworn friends in Taoyuan, and Wang Yun's banquet for Dong Zhuo was so rich that it was "land and water". In Water Margin, Wu Dalang's cooking cake, Sun Erniang's good wine, good meat and big steamed bread, Liangshan hero "eats meat in large chunks and drinks in a big bowl"; A Dream of Red Mansions describes colorful banquet scenes, such as birthday banquet, birthday banquet, invitation banquet, acacia banquet, end luncheon, Lantern Festival banquet, etc., which contains rich and colorful folk culture, food culture, and more than 111 kinds of delicious dishes described by the author, which makes people full of saliva and endless aftertaste.

there are many good things. how to eat them? In the works of Cao Xueqin and "Lan Ling Xiao Xiao Sheng", the forms of separate meals and * * * meals are really appetizing. Separate meals are similar to western food, and * * * meals are our most frequent way of eating. "Sitting around the table and raising chopsticks for food" is the basic feature of the * * * meal system.

The ancient way of sharing meals originated from the backward social productive forces, and the way of distributing food relatively evenly was actually the embryonic form of sharing meals.

when it's time for the week, the productive forces are developing and the etiquette system is constantly improving, and the "Zhou Li? The rules such as "spread the story and say the feast, so as to say the banquet" recorded in Si Ji Yan. Although the catering etiquette tends to be hierarchical, although the * * * meal system became popular in the upper class, the separate meal system was an important way to reflect the identity of the guest and the guest in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang

Some people think that when the high-legged tables and chairs of Hu people were introduced to the Central Plains in the Tang Dynasty, people's eating styles changed. In the mural of the 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, where Zhu Yuanzhang lived, * * * meal was an undisputed way of eating.

did Zhu Yuanzhang eat his hair during the meal or during the meal?

In some versions of literary works, it is said that Zhu Yuanzhang had dinner with Ma Huanghou. Then, this meal should be * * * meal.

Through the writings of Xiao Xiaosheng and others in Lan Ling, we find that the * * * meals in the Ming Dynasty mainly appeared in daily meals at home and private gatherings of friends. The dining system mainly appears when it comes to ostentation and extravagance and etiquette.

As a married couple, Ma Huanghou and Zhu Yuanzhang have been in trouble and have deep feelings along the way. Want to come to such a couple, in daily life, nature is also a harmonious * * * food and drink.

In some versions of the story, Zhu Yuanzhang ate the dish of hair, which was called "Pearl Jade White Jade Soup". According to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang liked this stew of cabbage, spinach and tofu.

Zhu Yuanzhang

It is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang was young, he didn't beg for food for many days, and once he fainted in the street. After that, he was rescued 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 and cooked a bowl of "hodgepodge" for Zhu Yuanzhang. As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang was so refreshed that he asked the old woman what she had drunk for herself. The old man replied jokingly, "Pearl Jade White Jade Soup".

It is this simple "Pearl Jade White Jade Soup" that Zhu Yuanzhang will never forget in his life.

actually, this is a simple "delicacy", and the seasoning used is even simpler-salt.

The simplest dish will often become a memory that people will never give up. Zhu Yuanzhang is like this, so will most people.