The hometown of sesame oil is in Zhoukou

As a traditional specialty of China, sesame oil has a very long history of over a thousand years, and it can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms period.

it can not only save people, but also hurt people.

At that time, Sun Quan led his troops to attack Hefei, and Man Chong, the general of Wei State, fought with him, so he used sesame oil. It is recorded in the History of the Three Kingdoms: "The pet rushed to raise dozens of strong men, broke them into torches, filled them with sesame oil, set fire from the upper wind, burned thieves and attacked tools, and shot Sun Tai, a disciple of the right." Man Chong poured sesame oil into pine, set fire from the windward, burned Sun Quan's siege tools, and killed Sun Quan's nephew Sun Tai.

When Yuan Shao's soldiers are injured, the military doctors will also use sesame oil to treat the wounded soldiers. As we all know, sesame oil has the function of moisturizing skin, which can make the skin moist and the wound scab better, especially for burns and scalds. It is more effective to apply sesame oil.

Yuan Shao's hometown is Yuanlao Village, a fellow villager in Shangshui County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province. Everyone familiar with Henan knows that Zhoukou is most famous for its oil.

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Sesame oil was served on the table for the first time

Sesame oil was not served on the table until the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the book Qi Min Yao Shu written by Jia Sixie, an agronomist in the Northern Wei Dynasty, a method of scrambled eggs was recorded, and sesame oil was used.

"(Eggs) are broken and hit in a copper pan, which makes yellow and white mixed. Fine chopped green onion, salted rice, muddy black beans, fried with sesame oil, very delicious. " Up to now, scrambled eggs with sesame oil are also very delicious. However, in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, people still used animal oil as the main cooking method, while sesame oil was seldom used.

sesame oil workshops began to appear

in the sui and Tang dynasties, although plants and animals were used concurrently, sesame oil was obviously used much more, and there were people selling oil on the streets. Duan Chengshi, a novelist in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "Youyang Miscellaneous" (Volume 15): "In Jingxuanping Square, an official person entered the song at night, and an oil seller put on a hat to drive the donkey, and the guide did not avoid it ..." The donkey was carrying fragrant oil drums on the streets to sell them, which shows the great market demand.

The Japanese monk Yuanren recorded an event in "Journey to Seek Dharma in the Tang Dynasty" (Volume II): On his way to Wutai Mountain, Yuanren saw many monks carrying oil with donkeys. The original text reads like this: "I ran into Yi Yishen and others at the Jingu Temple in Wutai Mountain and went to Shenzhou to ask for oil and return to the mountain. Fifty donkeys left with oil and sesame oil."

It can be seen that in the Tang Dynasty, there was already a large oil market in the oil mill, which also reflected the use of sesame oil and plain oil in Wutaishan Temple.

in the northern song dynasty, sesame oil was further developed

but in the song dynasty, the catering industry was unprecedentedly prosperous. at that time, there was a proverb: Suzhou and Shanghai are ripe, and the world is full. The catering industry is developed, and the variety of dishes is greatly increased. In addition, the Northern Song Dynasty moved to the south, and the northern and southern dishes merged with each other. There were more categories, and the diet became exquisite. Various oils also emerged in large quantities, such as almond oil, seed oil, cocklebur oil, fish oil and so on.

It is recorded in "Chicken Ribs" written by Zhuang Chuo, a Song Dynasty, that among these oils, "flax is the best, and vulgarity is fat and hemp." As mentioned earlier, flax and fat hemp are "sesame seeds".

It can also be seen that sesame oil has been widely used and recognized.

Ouyang Xiu, a writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote an article "The Oil Man", in which he wrote an old man selling oil. He put a copper coin in the mouth of a gourd and scooped a spoonful of sesame oil from the mouth of the copper coin. The copper coin was not wet, so his superb skills can be seen. Of course, this skill also came from practice, and it also reflected the great demand of the Song people for sesame oil.

The catering industry retrogressed in the Yuan Dynasty

However, in the Yuan Dynasty, the development of catering slowed down a lot. At that time, Mongolians mainly ate dairy products and meat, and rarely ate vegetables. Coupled with their cruel rule and years of war, the people were in poverty and it was very good to eat.

The Ming Dynasty, with its prosperous catering and soaring oil consumption,

It is a great thing that the Ming Dynasty replaced the Yuan Dynasty, at least in catering, which left a strong legacy for China's cooking history. In Ming Dynasty, the economy was developed, people's lives were prosperous, there were many kinds of ingredients and condiments, and the dishes made were also rich. The status of sesame oil is also more stable and high-end.

In the Heavenly Creations written by Song Yingxing in the Ming Dynasty, he also highly praised sesame oil among all kinds of oils. In the twelfth volume, there is a narrative: "Where oil is provided for people to eat, flax, radish seeds, soybeans and leeks are the best, followed by sesame and rapeseed seeds.

With the prosperity of catering and the surge of oil consumption, large-scale oil mills began to appear. According to the Records of Shimen County, there were more than 21 oil mills in Shimen Town, Jiaxing in the Ming Dynasty, with more than 811 employees.

The Qing Dynasty formed by the eight major cuisines

In the Qing Dynasty, there were many foodies and many literati, and the policy was effective. In addition, with the spread of literati's V, ordinary people wanted to eat something good if they had some money in their hands. The development of catering in the Qing Dynasty is inseparable from the support of the economy. "The eight major cuisines in China were formed in the late Qing Dynasty." (History of China Cuisine by Qiu Pang, Qingdao Publishing House, 2111)

Yuan Mei, a great poet in the Qing Dynasty, wrote a book called "Eating Menu with the Garden", which can be described as a "diet Bible", and recorded many dishes, all of which used sesame oil. And some rare delicacies are used more, so it can be seen that sesame oil is mostly used in wealthy families.

The hometown of sesame oil is in Zhoukou

Throughout the thousand-year history of sesame oil, from the earliest record of sesame oil-the Three Kingdoms period, until the Qing Dynasty, the status of sesame oil has been rising, and its application has become more and more extensive, and people have paid more and more attention to sesame oil.

if we look back at the history of sesame oil, it is not difficult to find that the place where sesame oil first appeared was Yuan Shao's hometown, namely, Shangshui County, Zhoukou, Henan Province.