"Xiao Er, to two pounds of beef, sieve a pot of good wine!" A comedian colleague opened his mouth. Worthy of being a movie star, the tone of voice is quite like the flavor of the Liangshan hero. Another coworker asked me, "Can you write an article about this dish of beef, write a good reward." I thought about it and said, "Good.
The impression of "cut two pounds of beef", many people from the beginning of Wu Sung tiger. Jingyanggang, but see Wu Sung magnificent, large pieces of meat, big bowl of wine, after a full meal, straight to Jingyanggang to fight the tiger also. The original text is as follows:
After drinking several bowls of wine, the shopkeeper sent two pounds of beef. Wine was sent three bowls at a time instead, and in the end, Wu Song ate four pounds of cooked beef and drank eighteen bowls of wine.
Four pounds of cooked beef down, what is the feeling, I have not tried, but also can not imagine. Eighteen bowls of wine to drink, what is the feeling? Eighteen bowls of water alone, for most people, can only think about. After this also go to fight the tiger, probably only Qiao Feng this kind of thousand cups of God can not get drunk.
Are you beginning to suspect that the novel is overly exaggerated? In fact, the amount of food is secondary to the meat that Wu Sung actually ate, which is easily overlooked.
The text is written very clearly, beef ah. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular meat in the world.
Yes!
The problem is that (knock on the blackboard) never look at ancient times with modern eyes, one look is wrong. Do you think that one day, traveling to the Song Dynasty, just find a restaurant, take the menu, boiled beef, beef in sauce, sour soup, beef hot pot, cumin beef, you can just order?
No way.
First of all, there is no menu, only a sliver of wooden signs, signs written on the name of the dish, called water signs, the words above ...... Oh Oh Oh Oh, you do not see to recognize. It just so happens that illiteracy in those days, but also not shameful. Then, the point is, which store dares to blatantly write on the water plate, beef, that the boss must be in the death.
The cow, in the ancient times of strict etiquette, was regarded as the highest level of sacrifice, ranked in the ceremonial rituals used in the "three sacrifices" of the first. Ancient emperors and lords sacrificed to the gods and goddesses of earth and grain, cattle, sheep, pigs, three animals are ready to say "too much", also known as "big prison". If there are only sheep and pigs, no cattle, this sacrifice is called "less prison". The Son of Heaven sacrifices to the gods of earth and grain, and the vassal sacrifices to the lesser dungeon. The fact that only the Son of Heaven was sacrificed shows how high the status of the cow was.
With the development of agricultural civilization, cattle, as an important farming livestock, by the government extra protection. Western Zhou Dynasty, there is a "vassals do not kill cattle for no reason," said, since the Han Dynasty, to the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, are on the private slaughter of cattle set a clear penalty, such as a fine, banishment, and even as harsh as beheading. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, even sick and dead cattle could not be handled at will. The rules of each dynasty were as follows:
Since ancient times, killing a cow privately has been a major offense. If it is to steal and kill other people's cattle, it is even more unpardonable. If one steals and cuts the nose of a cow, or steals and cuts the hoof of a cow, the offense is the same as killing a cow. However, if the wound of the cow heals and does not affect the cultivation of the land, the crime can be reduced by one degree.
Incidentally, Bao Gong tried a cow tongue case back in the day and became famous. A man had a grudge against his neighbor and secretly cut out the tongue of his neighbor's cow. After a few days, he found out that his neighbor had killed the cow. This is great, this person immediately ran to the police, thinking, this is enough to make the neighbor dead. Unexpectedly, the neighbor found that the cow's tongue was cut, the first time to go to the government to report that the killing of the cow from the authorization of Bao Zheng, in order to draw out the black hand behind the scene. This hateful person, steal the chicken can not, counter-erosion of rice.
It can be seen, in the Song Dynasty, as ordinary people, through formal channels, who can not easily eat beef. Just find a small museum, come to two pounds of beef, is simply delusional.
So, how did Wu Song do it?
A diligent netizen statistics "Water Margin" about eating beef in the plot description, a **** twelve places. In addition to one, the place to provide beef are more remote places, or private mansions:
At that time, I want to eat a mouthful of beef is really difficult to get to the middle of nowhere in the store to find, where it is outside the law, the management may not be so strict. I wonder if cattle at that time were similar to the state-protected animals of today? Since nowadays you can still occasionally eat pangolin and baby fish that are explicitly protected, in ancient times, you might be able to eat some beef if you think of a way to do it.
However, think about the kind of black store opened by Sun Erniang, not to be desperate, to replace beef with human flesh, is not to meet the market demand? What kind of foodie spirit is that.
Since it's so difficult to eat beef, why did Shi Naiyan arrange for Wu Song to eat beef?
The mainstream theory is that eating beef reflects a rebellious spirit. Because the court prohibited it, eating beef has become a kind of behavioral art, which is equivalent to writing a line on the door of the brain: not to go out of the ordinary.
Li Kui has perfectly interpreted this interpretation with his practical actions. The way he spoke reminded me of the "social youth" in junior high school. They had long hair, and in the public **** occasions, in spite of the discouragement, holding a cigarette, a flick of the hair: "I was born to smoke, you can not control?
Of course, some people say that the reason why the arrangement of the good man to eat beef, is the era in which Shi Naiyan decided. Moreover, the Ming emperor's surname was Zhu, and it was a taboo thing to write about eating pork. So Water Margin, eat fat geese, eat tender chicken, eat fish, and even eat dog meat, but hardly ever write about eating pork in a straightforward way.
The other meats, arranged for the good man to eat, than beef, always seems to be less bold. "Xiao Er, cut two pounds of mutton, playing a pot of good wine ~ ~", is not the momentum much worse?
As for the other meat well, please make up your own mind: Wu Song gnawed four pounds of pickled pepper phoenix claw, after carrying a whistle stick, spiritedly up the mountain to fight the tiger ......
In short, as a good law-abiding citizens, before the tiger Wu Song is not allowed to eat beef. As a Liangshan good man Wu Song, and non-eat beef.
As a pure foodie, we must think twice before traveling back to the ancient times, and eat a beef have the risk of killing the head. So, it is better to live in the present. For alcoholics, it's even better to live in the moment. If you don't believe me, next time, we'll talk about Wu Sung's eighteen bowls of "three bowls are not Gang".
Note: Some scholars believe that the Song Dynasty, although the ban is strict, but the wind of eating beef in private is very common, and beef is much cheaper than mutton. Can confirm this statement is not much information, let's just doubt it, and remember it for future reference.