Sushi has various patterns and tastes, and the most important thing is its high value, so it is very popular with young people and children. Sushi is mainly eaten as a snack or fast food in China, because it is convenient and simple. It is not a meal, but it is a solid staple food in Japan.
Sushi, as a unique diet in Japan, also has its own unique food culture. Sushi has a long history, a long development process, a unique production method and a special diet in Japan.
Japanese sushi is far more delicate and complicated than what we see on the street. Let's learn about Japanese sushi culture from the perspective of diet.
The Origin and Development of Sushi
The history of sushi The earliest prototype of sushi came from China. What should I say first? Sushi? Actually, it was translated from Japanese pronunciation? Sushi? What should this word be? Hey? And then what? Hey? .
Hey? In our ancient Chinese, it refers to a kind of fish sauce, which is cooked slowly with a small fire. But in Japanese it means sashimi. ? Hey? In Chinese, it refers to a kind of bibimbap made of fish grains, and in Japanese, it refers to sashimi wrapped in rice rolls. At first? Sushi? In fact, it is a method of food preservation.
As early as the Han Dynasty, it was recorded in Shi Ming. As for me, I cooked it with salt and rice. ?
A long time ago, in order to preserve fish, the ancients in China mixed rice and salt for pickling, and the pickled fish had a fermented sour taste. But it is still far from the appearance of sushi in Japan. The originator of Japanese sushi is the anti-corrosion strategy of Fujian fishermen.
There were no refrigerators or anything like that in ancient times. Fishermen in Fujian have lived and fished at sea for a long time, and their food is easy to deteriorate. So at that time, Fujian fishermen added vinegar to the freshly steamed rice, which could be preserved for a long time.
Until the Nara era around 700 AD, Japanese businessmen who went out to China to do business brought this method of pickling rice with vinegar to Japan, and combined it with local eating habits such as sashimi (sashimi was actually the favorite of people in the Tang and Song Dynasties, but with the development of China's food culture and cooking skills, China abandoned this way of eating, and the Japanese kept it), thus forming a unique sushi culture in Japan.
Hey? And then what? Hey? After these two words were introduced to Japan, they were replaced by similar local food nouns, forming the Japanese pronunciation:? Hey? The pronunciation has become? Sushi? ,? Hey? It became? Sashimi? . However, it has always been a habit to use Chinese characters in Japan. The words haven't changed, but the meaning and pronunciation have changed.
So if you travel to Japan and want to experience pure Japanese sushi, don't go? Sushi? Do you want to bring this kind of shop? Hey? And then what? Hey? The sushi restaurant in front of you is an authentic traditional sushi restaurant.
Japan is an island country. This way of eating from the coast of China has gradually become popular in Japan. It was not until the Edo period in 1700 that sushi was widely spread in Japan and became a major food.
Classification of Sushi There are many kinds of sushi, mainly because there are too many kinds of materials that can be added to sushi. In Japan, there are all kinds of seafood, vegetables and so on. Sushi came to China to satisfy the eating habits of China people and the diversity of ingredients in China, and it was more colorful.
But it's all the same in essence. Our common sushi is mainly divided into two categories: one is hand-held sushi, and the other is hand-rolled sushi.
In Japan, there is no such score. We are only familiar with the Japanese school, which is mainly simple, and the more traditional Kansai-style box sushi.
Holding sushi is easy to understand, that is, making sushi by hand requires certain technical operations to quickly master the perfect sushi. Box sushi needs a wooden box, which is covered with rice and various ingredients in turn, and then extruded. Then turn the wooden box upside down to make sushi and cut it into small pieces.
Kansai box sushi is very popular in Japan because it is easy to carry and make, and the finished box sushi like a lunch box is evenly cut into small pieces for easy eating. Kansai School also has a kind of sushi, which is not so much sushi as rice with fish, vegetables and mustard sauce.
Kansai School also has grilled sushi and a mackerel box sushi. The method of mackerel box sushi is unique, that is, stuffing the soaked rice into the hollowed mackerel, then wrapping it with dried glutinous rice leaves, and finally cutting it, which is similar to replacing seaweed with mackerel.
Our common sushi is Edo sushi. This kind of sushi is not as complicated and exquisite as traditional sushi. Fast and convenient, more suitable for modern fast-paced life. Among them, there are many kinds of sushi, but they are different in shape and collocation, and their basic principles and practices are also very different.