Introduction:

Sushi is one of the traditional Japanese cuisines. The main ingredient is rice slices seasoned with sushi vinegar and keeping human body temperature, and fish, seafood, vegetables or eggs are used as ingredients, which are delicious and deeply loved by Japanese people. Sushi has been recorded in heian period with the code name "Yan Xi Style" completed in 927 AD. Sushi at that time was a way to preserve fish. Rub the salt on the fish, press it with a heavy object and let it ferment naturally. When it is sour, you can eat it wrapped in crystal rice (crystal rice should be cooked and cooled before rolling it repeatedly). According to "Biography of Dongyi-Biography of Japan", Japanese people eat seafood, that is, sashimi (sashimi), which is wrapped in rice grains to form a fast food.

History:

There are different opinions about the origin of sushi. In ancient Southeast Asia and the coastal areas of China, there were foods similar to sushi, but in different forms. Japanese sushi mainly consists of kimbap or seaweed, sashimi, cucumber, pork floss and roasted onion, with mustard, horseradish, soy sauce and vinegar. . On the coast of China, there is a cylindrical rice ball made of glutinous rice, egg yolk, crispy skin, peanuts, vegetables and cooked shrimp, which is called a cooking stick. It is covered with a layer of cooked dough. The method is a bit like holding sushi, but the material and shape are different. According to legend, this rice stick came from Yue State (Zhejiang Province) in the Spring and Autumn Period and belonged to the traditional food of the ancient Yue people.

In the year 200 AD after Koguryo surrendered to China, that is, in the later Han Dynasty, this kind of food, Fu, began to spread in China and was said to have been invented by the Han nationality. In the dictionary, it is defined as food made of salt, vinegar, rice and steamed fish fillets. Sometimes fried fish sticks are used as the main ingredient and mixed with rice balls. The shape is an oval sphere, which looks like a football. But most of the time, there is no fixed shape. Catfish also uses steamed fish chops with powder or steamed fish chops with rice, but it uses rice, which can be used by heating or cold mixing with cooked fish. During the Song Dynasty, there were frequent wars in China, which was just a kind of food to satisfy hunger. There are many varieties, including vegetables, fish and meat, but because there is no fixed form, it is different from Japanese sushi.

In the early days when Chinese characters were introduced to Japan, Japan added its own understanding of Chinese characters and replaced some Japanese foods with Chinese characters with similar or different meanings. Thus, Japanese "Siuxi" became "Fu" and "Sasimi" became "Yi".

Small food made of rice, raw fish and sauce appeared in the post-Han period, which was much smaller than that in China. This is the ancestor of Japanese sushi later. Meanwhile, China's fishstick bibimbap can be regarded as a brother or neighbor of sushi. It's just that it's not widely circulated and popularized now.

In 700 A.D., that is, Nara era, the early Japanese snacks were named sushi, which became a common item and a symbol of Japanese food culture as a holiday food.