As an important part of Chinese civilization, diet is very important. Since ancient times, people in China have "food is the most important thing". Diet culture is related to people's material level, and it can also reflect a country's prosperity and people's pursuit of material life, as well as their aesthetic mentality, material pursuit and mood.
Picture 1: Chinese chef Yi Yin.
The eight major Chinese cuisines, if we want to trace their roots, are Henan. The mother of China cuisine in Henan Province, it has long been said that the world cuisine originated in Henan, began in Yi Yin and flourished in Song Dynasty.
In ancient times, people in China were so greedy that they did not have a complete food system. It was not until the Shang Dynasty that they began to form a complete food system. As the ancestor of Chinese food, Yi Yin, a native of Henan Province, was a famous thinker and politician in the early Shang Dynasty, and was even more famous as the "Chinese chef". Shang Tang replaced the summer, and Yi Yin governed the world with the theory of "using a tripod to spoon" and "reconciling five flavors", and developed a complete cooking theory system. Chinese food started in Yi Yin, which can be said to be deserved, and was regarded as the ancestor by the kitchen industry in China.
Picture 2: There are many shops on the riverside at Qingming Festival.
But it was in the Song Dynasty that Chinese food was extremely rich. In Song Dynasty, the commodity economy was prosperous and the material life was extremely colorful, which gave birth to a huge class of citizens, who had sufficient free time and material conditions to study, invent and create delicious food. The cooking techniques that any chef must be familiar with today, such as cooking, roasting, roasting, frying, frying, boiling, stewing, marinating, steaming, waxing, honey and onion pulling, were matured in the Song Dynasty. Now we can taste ham, Dongpo meat, hotpot, sashimi, fried dough sticks, glutinous rice balls, popcorn, all kinds of cakes and other foods and snacks, which were also invented or popular in the Song Dynasty.
Before the Song Dynasty, people in China were mostly satisfied with food and clothing, and their daily life was still the system of two meals a day in ancient times. In the Song Dynasty, with the prosperity of society, people got rid of the low-level demand for food and clothing and turned to pursue the quick desire on the tip of their tongue. The "two meals a day" system developed into a "three meals a day", and people had more choices in diet. The great wealth of material life gave the Song people more talents and inspiration, and even the most was born.
Picture 3: China on the tip of CCTV's tongue.
Henan cuisine is not as spicy as Sichuan cuisine, not as sweet and greasy as Cantonese cuisine, and not as salty and fishy as Shandong cuisine. Adhering to Yi Yin's cooking theory, it pays attention to the harmony of five flavors and is the most healthy. Henan cuisine started in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and after Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties, it became a spectacular sight in Song Dynasty, and finally formed a perfect and self-proclaimed menu system, which has influenced China people to this day.
"The world's cuisines originated in Henan, started in Yi Yin Sheng and flourished in Song Dynasty", so it is.