However, not all the food in the water comes from the idea of poor people offering sacrifices with rare teeth. For example, cooking and burning. The emperor likes to eat this, and will also drive ministers to eat it together, which will play a downward role and soon become popular in Beijing. However, after Lu Wei spread to the people, the change was still great. Pork belly and expensive ingredients are beyond the reach of ordinary people. But the stew is so delicious, who doesn't want to have a toothache?
Therefore, the ingredients of braised pork become low-cost pork intestines, pork head, fried bean bubbles, lung head, a little pork belly and so on. It is different from the practice of the imperial court in those days. Low-priced ingredients are as mellow as boiled soup, and meat and fire burn at the bottom of the pot.
There is a so-called "delicacies of mountains and seas" among the people. It comes from our ancestors' pragmatic attitude towards hunger. Whether we can eat or not, as long as we can fill our stomachs, we should survive first, and then try other things ... In fact, I never think that China's food is a real "food", just like China on the Tip of the Tongue, which presents mouth-watering food and is a humiliating testimony of ordinary people for survival. To this day, we are still not rich: food is short and spirit is poor.
Decades ago, I first had breakfast in Hujialou. When I saw the words fried liver written on the small black board, I thought it was fried liver slices. Take a look at it. It's boiled pork intestines. Eat it. Look at others, too, shouting fried liver and cooking small intestine. I was surprised at that time, too. I didn't eat sesame oil sticks, soybean milk and tofu, but drank a bowl of pig intestines earlier. You have learned a lot. I think all animals and plants have good parts and bad parts. Of course, meat is the best, but it is also meat after washing. If you eat badly with less money, it will become food for ordinary people. Don't look into the water. It is more popular than the lungs on the water. I eat clay pot rice, chicken pot and snake pot in Guangzhou. The price is not expensive either. Thirty years ago, you had to eat two pots because the pot was very shallow. I asked why this clay pot rice is not expensive, because snake meat is expensive. He replied that it was made of snake intestines. Therefore, it is the same reason that Beijingers love water. Rich people in Hong Kong go to the snake restaurant on Jiang Lan Road in Guangzhou to eat snake meat. The poor eat snake intestines.
The old southern district of Beijing is full of manual labor. They queue up in the capital for several days, so there are all kinds of rice beaches and shacks at the city gate. If pigs are not eaten in the imperial city, they will be taken outside the city. Some people will cook them and sell them to people waiting in line at the city gate. These people have now evolved into Beijingers, so eating these things is a rule set by restaurants in the past, in order to help the poor. The so-called restaurants and hospitals earn money from the rich, and they are very nervous. In the past, Donglaishun had such a rule. The leftover mutton cake is big and thick, and it is worth selling a sesame cake. You can also rub a bowl of mutton soup to drink, so as to make more friends in the street.
There are so many poor people in old Beijing that you should have so much water to eat. What does more water mean? It means more serious good meat and more people buy meat. Because of the food, the feeding amount can't keep up. In order to let so many people eat meat, we must make full use of it. Why there are not many kinds of food in other places, and most of them are concentrated in cities. In the final analysis, it is because there are many people. As we all know, cured meat often appears in places with few people and can't be eaten. We must find a way to preserve it.