"Seven things to open the door, rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tea" is definitely a first-class event for Chinese people. There are countless ingredients and seasonings that fly in the sky, run on the ground and swim in the water, which has created our present "Chuanlu Yuehuaiyang". When we eat all the flying, running and swimming, we will understand that "eat drink man woman, people are eager to survive".

from "Shennong tastes a hundred herbs" to "Peng Zushan cooks chicken soup", the spirit of China people who love, know and dare to eat, and will eat even if conditions are not created, has existed since ancient times.

Legends and records about eating can be found everywhere in ancient Chinese literature. Even the earliest ancient book "Shan Hai Jing" in China hides the secret of "eating and eating".

If you read the original text carefully, you will find that no matter what strange stories are introduced in the book, most of them end with "Eating …".

There are birds on the mountain in the wings, which look like a black bird. There are three songs by Vulpix, which are good at laughing. They are called Gun Qu, which can not be ugly when eaten, but also can resist fierce. Qítú (a bird that likes to laugh when it's all right ......

On the mountain of green hills, there are beasts, which are like foxes and Kyubi no Youko, which sound like babies and can eat people; The eater is not evil. The nine-tailed fox

is 2 miles to the north, and it is called the Danxun Mountain ... There are animals that look like rats, while the moose with the head of the tu is like a dog. With its tail flying, it is called ear mouse. If you ignore it, you can ban all kinds of poison. Auricular rat

ray fish, shaped like carp, has a pale body and bird wings, a white head and a red beak, and often travels in the West Sea, swims in the East China Sea and flies at night. Its sound is like a phoenix chicken, its taste is sour and sweet, and it is crazy to eat it. When you see it, the world is big. How did Wenray

' s good collection of strange stories finally become a recipe? Because food is the first thing for the people, it is understandable that this ancient fantasy IP has become a recipe. In the final analysis, it is because people love to eat, will eat, and dare to eat (? ）。

If this person still likes to write down delicious food, it will be a great blessing to the world. In ancient times, the literati turned the delicious food they had eaten into black and white and handed it down. After we saw it, it might only be saliva.

it's a blessing to eat!

Confucius, the most fastidious gourmet

Yes, it is the Confucius teacher who taught you that "the benevolent loves others". Confucius, a teacher for generations, not only teaches you how to be a man, but also teaches you how to eat.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius was particular about food, clothing, housing and transportation. Although his living conditions were not very good during his travels around the world, Confucius insisted on eating.

you never tire of fine food. Eating is clean, fish is hungry and meat is defeated; Don't eat evil; Odor does not eat; Lose food and not eat; Don't eat if you don't cut properly; Do not eat its sauce; Although there is a lot of meat, it does not make it better than eating; Only wine is boundless, not as chaotic as it is; Do not eat preserved wine, do not withdraw ginger food, do not eat more; Sacrifice to the public, not to stay in the meat; Sacrifice meat, not three days, three days, don't eat it. ?

Confucius has made strict requirements on "Eight Don't Eat" in The Analects of Confucius, from temperature, knife work to food safety and hygiene. If he is not strict about eating, be careful that he will find you.

However, for more than 2, years, people have different understandings of the phrase "food is not tired of essence, and food is not tired of detail".

one of them is to eat the finest grain and taste the finest meat. Rice should be polished rice, and the finer the shredded pork, the better. It sounds as if Confucius is very picky, and some people even think that Confucius is advocating people to pursue a luxurious life.

However, it has also been suggested that according to the social life at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, "never tire of eating fine food, never tire of eating fine food" refers to the bowl of rice given to ancestors during ancestor worship, the rice grains to be cooked are full and complete, and the beef offered to ancestors should be sliced as thin as possible to show piety.

No matter what people understand after this sentence, it can always prove that Confucius really loves to eat and still eats. It is precisely because of this that his descendants formed the famous Confucian cuisine system according to his teaching. His words are the highest food program of Confucius banquet and the theory and action guide of "Shandong cuisine" now.

The name Liu An, a Taoist who loves tofu most, sounds a little strange, but everyone is familiar with the idiom "Chicken and dog ascend to heaven". That's right, it's the chickens and dogs of Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty.

The method of tofu began with Liu An, the king of Huainan. Compendium of Materia Medica

Liu An loves alchemy, and spends a lot of money to recruit warlocks from all over the world, talking with them about immortals and writing books on alchemy. They used clear spring water to grind bean juice (similar to the current soybean milk) and raised Dan with bean juice. Unexpectedly, the elixir was not refined, but it reacted chemically with gypsum and salt in Dan medicine, forming the embryonic form of "tofu".

After tasting it, I still found it delicious, so I forgot the benefits of alchemy and was busy grinding soybean milk. After repeated experiments, the embryonic form of tofu appeared, which was named by Liu An, and later renamed as "tofu".

Liu An alchemist made tofu. This alchemist must have made a mistake, but the "refined" tofu has become an eternal story. This is another kind of immortality for him who pursues immortality.

The only way to solve my worries is to eat meat-Su Shi

My deskmate editor Wu Panpan once said, "Eating is Su Shi's superpower".

that's right! In the history of Chinese cuisine, 66 dishes have been influenced by Su Dongpo. With "Dongpo" as the prefix, with meat, elbow, fish, tofu, bean jelly, soup and cake freely combined behind, even peony flowers can be made into Dongpo fried peony.

Su Shi can't keep his mouth shut in politics, and he was demoted to an official in court and didn't even know his own mother. Fortunately, he was open-minded, and he ate wherever he was demoted, and his mouth never stopped ...

He was demoted to Huangzhou and ate pork.

Huangzhou good pork, the price and other dirt. The rich refuse to eat, and the poor don't understand cooking. Slow down the fire, less water, and it will be beautiful when the fire is full. Get up and play a bowl every day, so full that you can't worry about it. -"pork fu"

was demoted to Zhenjiang and ate tofu.

preserved moss, roasted green pu, rotten steamed goose and duck is a pot,

boiled beans are used as cream to crisp, and high-fever oil candle is used to pour honey wine. "Honeyed Wine Song"

was demoted to Huizhou and ate mutton.

(Eating sheep bones) Like eating crab claws ... I feel very replenished ... If this is said, the dogs will be unhappy. (Eating sheep bones is like eating crabs and eating giant fish, which is very good for your health, but the dog may be unhappy when you say that.)

In Huizhou, you have to spit lychee, and if you eat 3 sea plugs a day, hemorrhoids can't stop his heart from eating lychee.

Being demoted to Danzhou, he learned to eat oysters alone.

Dongpo is in Hainan, eating oysters is beautiful, which made Uncle Shu say: I don't want to let the Chinese and Korean scholars know, so I'm afraid I'll try to migrate to the south to share this taste. -

Su Shi is like this. As long as the food is delicious, I don't care where I am banished. If my mood is really bad, I will be happy to eat some meat.

A poet who doesn't like fish is not a good poet-Du Fu

Reading Du Fu's works, we can easily find that he really loves fish too much.

fresh crucian carp and silver carp, celery and green soup. Rummaging through the bottom of the building, the more the dinner goes.

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Jiao Ren, a fish, washes the fish and sharpens the knife, making the fish jealous. Silent and fine flying snow, bones have chopped spring onions.

I carefully recorded the process of eating sashimi in other people's homes, and went home to study it myself. Not only do I like to eat at other people's homes, but I also like to cook at home by myself. In "Looking for Travelers", "Hanging on the wall and moving baskets of fruits, calling for cooking fish", calling friends to eat my fish together.

It is necessary to eat fish with some staple food, and a cold-washed noodles with Sophora japonica leaves.

the leaves of Sophora japonica are green and tall, and they are collected and given to the Chinese kitchen. New noodles come near the market, and the juice is mixed with me. When you enter the tripod, you worry too much, but when you add food, you want nothing. Everything is fresh and fresh, and the fragrant rice is also a bud. Cold teeth are colder than snow, so people are advised to compare pearls ...

Fresh leaves of Sophora japonica are chopped, mixed with juice and residue, and made into pasta. After steaming, the color is "fresh", and the mouth is cool between chewing.

finally, order dessert, iced watermelon.

Pouch pigeon green in the basket, full of good color. The bamboo pole is inserted into the sinus and led to the bird path.

the jade floats and falls, and you cherish it like grass. Chew the frost on the fallen blade and comfort the haggard.

The gardener sends melons

Bamboo is used as a water pipe to lead the cold spring water on the cliff to the courtyard, and the watermelon (Pu Ge) is iced, so it tastes like "chewing frost". This summer has never been in vain.

If you think about it carefully, if a person loves to eat so much and knows how to eat so well, if you starve him, he should fight you desperately. This happened to Du Fu. He was hungry for more than ten days, and finally he could eat a meal. In the end, he put his life in.

in the Dali period, I went out of Qutang, went down to Jiangling, and went back to Yuan and Hunan to climb Hengshan, because I was in Leiyang. You Yue Temple, where the flood reached its peak, was not allowed to eat for ten days, and the county magistrate greeted it with a boat, but it was returned. Let the taste feed the cattle to roast white wine, get drunk, and die in the past (evening), 59 years old.

The Book of the New Tang Dynasty

Du Fu was trapped in the flood for ten days on the way, without eating or drinking. Thanks to the local officials rowing a boat, he was rescued. Seeing Du Fu, who was hungry and weak, the county magistrate quickly served him with delicious food. Unexpectedly, Du Fu died because of overeating.

"Spit beef and white wine and die in Leiyang overnight". It's a pity to leave like this, but it's a kind of compensation for Du Fu's wandering life to die with a full stomach.

Because there is another poet who died-Meng Haoran

Like Du Fu, he loves fish very much and is called "the little prince with seafood".

I like fish, and I also like to eat a kind of fish called bream (now Wuchang fish). Meng Haoran wrote poems several times to tell everyone that this kind of fish is really delicious and I really want to eat it.

birds will follow the wild geese, but fish will hide the neck bream.

After the Winter Solstice, I crossed Wu Zhanger's Tan Xi's other business. I tried to hang bamboo poles and got a bream. Beauty is better than gold, but delicate hands are red and fresh.

Send to the Lingnan of Wang Changling (Chatou is Chatou bream, that is, bream

Meng Haoran suffered from carbuncle on his back in his later years (promise me not to search for pictures), and for many years, even his favorite fish should be avoided. Finally, the condition was controlled. Until I met my long-lost friend Wang Changling. Wang Changling still remembers that Meng Haoran said that he would treat himself to fish. Meng Haoran said, "Now the fish is beautiful and the crab is fat, and it's just the right time." Banquet, fish and wine. When I finished eating, my back gangrene broke out and I died.

Cao Xueqin, a "food writer" who can write but doesn't know whether he has eaten or not.

Cao Xueqin can write about food, and he may find a description of food by opening a page of A Dream of Red Mansions. Among the 12 novels, there are more than 8 descriptions of food, and more than 18 kinds of food are described.

"A Thousand Red Caves", clean plum flakes, snowflake foreign sugar, fragrant snow and nourishing pills, and steamed new chestnut powder cake with sweet-scented osmanthus sugar ... When you read the name of the mouth, your mouth smells sweet. Why is there so much to eat? Cao Xueqin probably drooled like us when he wrote it.

maybe it is.

The life of the upper class in A Dream of Red Mansions is definitely not something everyone can experience. You see that Granny Liu entered the Grand View Garden, and the process was extremely complicated, and she was reported layer by layer. Finally, Wang Xifeng reluctantly met her. Granny Liu was invited to have a "home-cooked meal" because of her face. Granny Liu was afraid to lift chopsticks because of the big scene.

In fact, Cao Xueqin is very familiar with this kind of scene. After all, he was born in Zhengbaiqi, the interior office, and he has seen big scenes.

However, when he was a teenager, his family came down, so it might be a little difficult to experience that kind of "rich life" again. As for A Dream of Red Mansions written later, it was largely described by the rich family in his memory. Poor him, he could only "enjoy" this luxurious life in the book.

the real foodie begins with buying a house-Yuan Mei

if he really loves to eat, it's really Yuan Mei. Yuan Mei, a talented scholar and leader of the poetry circle, wrote a lot all his life, but all this had to start with his purchase of real estate.

When he was a magistrate in Jiangning (Nanjing), he bought the Sui Garden, which was built by Cao Xueqin's grandfather, Cao Yin. After several changes of hands, he finally arrived in Yuan Mei, changed his name to Suiyuan, built a house to settle down, and became known as Suiyuan. From then on, he began his wonderful life of eating goods and wrote a book Suiyuan Food List.

Hobby 1: Going to the kitchen

Every time I visit someone's house, I will definitely go to the kitchen of someone else's house to see how the cooks cook, and write down while watching. Sliced squid is very good. Yang Zhongcheng sliced it into chicken soup and tofu, which is called squid tofu.

Hobby 2: Collecting recipes

Compared with Su Shi, Yuan Mei is too happy. Every day, he travels by himself and collects local delicious food when he goes to a place.

I went to Haizhou to eat delicious "hibiscus tofu" and pestered the owner, "Can you teach me the recipe?" The shopkeeper joked with him that he would not be willing to teach until he had a three-fold bend. As a result, Yuan Mei really got the recipe after three bows. At that time, someone wrote a poem to make fun of him:

Delicious taste group pushed the order, and Li Qi was especially like Yi Ya tune, but Tao Yuanliang was once bent over for this.

Hobby 3: Visiting famous chefs

I will visit famous chefs when I hear about them.

In this way, while walking and eating, Yuan Mei wrote down this "Food List with the Garden" in the form of an essay, which described the diet and cooking skills in Jiangsu and Zhejiang during the Qianlong period in detail, and recorded 326 kinds of North-South dishes, famous wines and teas popular in China from 14th to 18th centuries with a lot of space.

The methods of cooking and the true principles of cooking are all reflected in Suiyuan Food List:

Salt should come first, and light should come later; The rich should be the first, and the thin should be the last; Those who have no soup should be the first, and those who have soup should be the last ...

Those who are clear should be clear, those who are rich should be strong, those who are soft should be soft, and those who are rigid should be rigid, so that there is a wonderful harmony ...

In fact, there are still some restrictions on what scholars in ancient times can eat. After all, they don't have that much money. When they have money, they may also have the wrong solar terms, and they can't eat what they want. In modern times, living conditions began to improve, and the literati's food life began in by going up one flight of stairs.

I translated Shakespeare and cooked bass and prawns-Liang Shiqiu

In Essays of Elegant Houses, Liang Shiqiu wrote all the trivial things in the world. Men and women can write whatever they want, which seems to be trivial things in life, but it can also squeeze out some true feelings for you. More pyrotechnic than his "Essays on Elegant Rooms" is his book "Elegant Rooms Talk about Eating".

It's remembered that there's only food you haven't eaten, and there's no food he hasn't written.

Yuhuatai's soup dumplings, Beiping's roast duck, Xiangtan's bacon, Houdefu's iron pot eggs ... not only should we talk about eating, but we should also teach you how to eat, not only about food, but also about the origin. Reading a few articles at will make people's forefinger move.

teach you how to make a "vegetable bag"

Take a bowl of hot rice, and put a small bowl of rice in a big bowl. Wipe the garlic sauce on the inside of the vegetable leaves, and wipe it evenly. Mix sesame bean curd, small belly, tofu floss and shredded Chinese cabbage together in the rice bowl, and mix well. Take out a part of this bowl of rice, put it in cabbage leaves, wrap it up, and bite it with both hands. mop up