Fast food is a popular catering to meet people's daily needs, which is characterized by convenience and speed. With the accelerated pace of life, this way of eating has spread throughout the country. Since then, many people think that fast food is a product of modernization, but it is not. Fast food has existed in China since ancient times.
Remember the dry food that often appears in TV dramas? This is also a kind. Here, I will lead you to trace back the past and present to appreciate ancient fast food and see what it was called in ancient times.
What was the name of ancient fast food?
As early as the Tang Dynasty, there was a kind of banquet called "ritual feast" on the market. According to the record, the Tang Emperor Dezong temporarily summoned Wu Chi, appointed him as "Jing" and asked him to take office immediately. Therefore, Wu Chi tried to organize a banquet to celebrate his promotion, and the time was very tight. Unexpectedly, when friends and relatives arrived, the banquet had already been set up. The guests were puzzled and asked why he was so quick. Wu's people came back and said, "The two cities have gift tables every day, taken from the cauldron. So, three to five hundred people can stand up." This "Li Ban" was the fast food of the Tang Dynasty.
By the Song Dynasty, in Tokyo and Hangzhou, restaurants called "Hourly Call" and "Duh Neng Xing" appeared on the market. It is recorded that there were already "vegetarian stores" in the marketplaces of the Song Dynasty, which could provide four o'clock snacks for workers. It could order food at any time, never delayed customers, and had more than 100 kinds of food.
The ancient people were well equipped to cook fast food, and the chef's knife was very delicate, with complete cooking utensils for the chef's use.
Chinese Han Dynasty, "the capital city Ji Sheng" years, "three beasts of sacrifice, a carp nibble, flying knife emblem, folded like a gnat feather." Tang dynasty "seven settings" year, there are some "small white wobble", "big white wobble", "double butterfly" and other terms to describe some of the sharp knife luck, thin meat dishes. In the year of the Chopper Book, it was written about a butcher who put ten pounds of skinned and boned pork on a child's grief, then chopped the meat into pieces with two quick axes in a cup of tea, without a single fiber on the child's back, which was amazing. You can see that the masters of speed in those days were quick and good at chopping.
Convenience is very popular with the public. Chun_Xinhai eleven years of the Southern Song Dynasty, Kunshan County, Pingjiang Province, made a "only one point thin, as thin as paper," the "medicine chess noodles". This kind of noodle is easy to keep and carry, and can be transported to faraway places. Lin'an officials and citizens are very favorite. This is the predecessor of the "hanging noodles".