Peony Swallow, the signature dish of Luoyang Water Seats
People in Luoyang love soup, and people living in Luoyang also love soup! In Luoyang history, Wu Zetian was the favorite person to drink soup. It is said that she loves soup very much, and it is not enough to eat soup in the morning and evening. She simply turned the banquet in the court into a "soup meeting". Later, this soup-drinking conference was positioned as a state banquet by the Tang Dynasty Ritual Department. More than a thousand years have passed, and this kind of banquet has been handed down. It is one of the three wonders of Luoyang (Luoyang Peony, Luoyang Water Mat and Luoyang Longmen Giant Buddha)-Luoyang Water Mat is one of the oldest preserved famous banquets in China so far, and it is known as "the living fossil of China court banquet"!
Luoyang water mat was not originally called Luoyang water mat, but called Wuhou banquet. Born in Luoyang, later generations called Luoyang water mat. There is also a saying that it was called Wuhou banquet before the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, Luoyang formed Cheng Zhu's Neo-Confucianism, inherited Confucianism, advocated justice and destroyed human desires. Since then, Wu Zetian, the so-called inversion of Yin and Yang, has been flogged, and this Wuhou banquet will not be called. Since then, it has been renamed Luoyang water mat.
Luoyang Water Banquet was only used as a state banquet in the Tang Dynasty. After the Tang Dynasty, this kind of banquet left the court, and officials and businessmen could also enjoy it. Luoyang water mat flowed into the streets and folks after the Song Dynasty. Because ordinary people know that such a banquet was not enjoyed by ordinary people originally, but came from the palace officialdom, so Luoyang water mat is called "officialdom". This is one of the oldest and most famous banquets in China.
Why is this banquet called water mat? First, this grand feast is different from the modern North-South cuisine. It will appear on the desktop one by one. After eating this dish, remove it, and then another dish is like a flowing stream, so it is called a water mat. The second is a famous dish, which is the most exquisite in soup. Whether the chefs can cook the soup well is the main criterion to measure their skills. There is a saying in the kitchen that "if you are not afraid of cooking changes, you are afraid that the soup will reappear". I'm not afraid of how many tricks there are in cooking, but I'm afraid I won't serve soup again. There is also a saying that "chefs are not afraid of soup". However, Luoyang water mat made a big fuss about soup. After each main course, there is a soup, which is dry and medium-cooked, and the soup is accompanied by dishes. Because there are too many soups, they look like soup and water, so they are called water mats.
Luoyang water mat is divided into four main courses in order: the first eight products (cold dishes), four town tables, eight major items, four eye-catching, and * * * 884424 main courses, which just corresponds to the twenty-four years from the first year of Yonglong (AD 680) to the first year of Shenlong (AD 705) when Wu Zetian took over the political power. According to legend, Yuan Tiangang watched the stars at night in his early years and knew that Wu Zetian would be an emperor in the future, but the secret could not be revealed, so he came up with this idea and designed this big banquet to compare the wine and meat scenes of Wu Zetian in the next 24 years. Every dish is full of soup and water, which shows that Wu's world is natural and thin, which is what Yu's twenty-four-year relationship (thinness) refers to.
Today, the water mat has evolved into sixteen representative dishes, and it is also the main recommended package for all the big water mat hotels in Luoyang. The following are 16 main courses:
Peony Chae Yeon Luoyang Aohuo Luoyang Pork Slices and Braised Pork
Stewed four pieces of Luoyang crisp meat with sirloin beef and milk soup.
Braised fried meatballs with chicken wings and sour soup, water-crispy meatballs, Luoyang sea cucumber.
Fried eight-treasure rice honey juice ginseng fruit rice wine Manjiang Hongmanyi soup
It is more expensive to come to Luoyang to eat water mats. Go to Zhenbu Hotel in Luoyang to manage water mats and water mat gardens. It's cheap. There are many water mat shops in Lijingmen, which are found in the streets and alleys of the old city. However, Luoyang water mat soup has a lot of water and a large appetite. I suggest inviting more people to eat together.