Listening to the food expert Li Jiqiang's "Interesting Talk about Chu Cuisine" is extremely rich in content. Every idiom has a historical allusion. For a person who knows little about history and culture, it sounds very fresh and adds a lot of knowledge. I can only express a little fur here, which is my little gain.

first, from the historical point of view, I understand the origin of Chu culture.

(1) The heyday of Chu.

Chu created a glorious history 3,111 years ago, geographically reaching the Yellow River in the north and Shanghai in the East China Sea in the east. After 316 BC, all of them surrendered to Chu from Bashu in the east to Nanyue in Lingnan in the south. Chu culture has been formed in the process of absorption, integration and innovation. From the perspective of cultural development, Chu includes Hunan, Sichuan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Jiangsu and other places.

(2) the influence of Chu culture

The so-called Chu culture is the sum total of ways to promote people's life and development, with the characteristics of tolerance, innovation and integration.

Chu culture is dazzling and profound, so that experts in Chu history use "magnificent and bizarre, wonderful and absolutely gorgeous" to summarize Chu culture. Ji Xianlin believes that "the ancient history of China should be rewritten" because "Chu culture or southern culture can at least keep pace with Central Plains culture.

The romantic elegance of Chu Ci, the solemnity of bronzes and the mystery of lacquerware, these highly symbolic Chu cultural heritages have already merged into the cultural blood of the Chinese nation and become symbols of Chinese culture.

(III) Accumulation of Chu culture

Cultural symbols:

Dragon culture, Chu culture, Three Kingdoms culture, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Yangtze River culture, revolutionary culture, etc.

Spiritual characteristics:

Entrepreneurial spirit. Let me know our ancestor Xiong Yi's pioneering road of "opening up the mountains and forests with blue rays". I know that Chu people are all descendants of Vulcan Zhu Rong.

the open spirit of "Fu Yi belongs to summer".

the innovative spirit of "blockbuster".

the patriotic spirit of "hard to migrate".

the harmonious spirit of "stopping the war and turning it into force".

Every spirit is a precious treasure left by our ancestors, and we should innovate and carry it forward on the basis of inheritance.

second, from the perspective of diet, I understand the philosophy contained in diet culture.

(1) Philosophy of chopsticks:

The standard length of chopsticks is seven inches and six minutes, which means that people have worldly desires to show that they are essentially different from animals.

Chopsticks are round at one end and square at the other, representing a round place. The local map with a round sky was spread by the Taoist practitioner Chen Tuan, the bodhi old zu. In essence, the place with a round sky is an interpretation of the generation and operation of heaven and earth in the Yin-Yang system of the Book of Changes, which is the head of the Hundred Classics and the source of Chinese studies. Its ideological system holds that everything evolved according to Yin-Yang and Five Elements, so there is an ideological system of Yin-Yang and Five Elements in all ancient disciplines.

There are two chopsticks, but they are called a pair. Calling the waiter "take a pair of chopsticks" in a restaurant must be from China; If you say "take two chopsticks", it must be a foreigner. Why is it called a pair of chopsticks when it is clearly two chopsticks? There are concepts of Tai Chi and Yin and Yang. Tai Chi is one, Yin and Yang are two; One is two, and two is one; One contains two, and two are one. This is the philosophy of China, which westerners don't understand.

when using chopsticks, we should pay attention to cooperation and coordination. Only when one moves and the other does not move can the clamp be stable. If you move both of them, or if you don't move both of them, you can't clamp them. This is China's principle of Yin and Yang.

(2) the importance of eating.

since ancient times, food is the most important thing for people. "At the beginning of a husband's ceremony, all kinds of meals begin" and "At the beginning of a husband's ceremony, all kinds of meals begin", which means that the etiquette system and customs begin from the source of food activities.

The allusion that "the hatred of a meat must be vented, and the gratitude of a meal must be repaid" shows that even eating it once can have a great impact on people's fate.

(III) Differences between the North and the South

Sheep-faced culture in the north and fish-and-rice culture in the south.

northerners eat salty food, while southerners eat sweet food.

northerners drink in big bowls, southerners drink in small cups, and so on.

China has a vast territory, and people's living and eating habits in different places are quite different in the case of a large span between north and south.

Third, from the perspective of diet, I understand the causes of the delicious taste of Chu cuisine.

first of all, the ingredients are good. Secondly, it is characterized by the following five flavors.

1. Sugar: Add some sugar to refresh the taste.

2, salt: the first hundred flavors. Add the right amount of salt, you can't eat anything without it, and it will only taste salty if it is too much.

3. Fresh: appropriate amount of monosodium glutamate

4. Spicy: no spicy. Pepper can release natural analgesics, and most people love it.

5. Fat: The tasteless taste of fat permeates into the heart, just like the feeling of ascending to heaven.

The teacher said that we are rich in fish resources, so as long as we can make fish well, it will be great. Here are some tips for cooking fish: you can get rid of fishy smell by removing the black clothes inside the fish; When cooking fish, the fire turns to a small fire after boiling, and the onion, ginger, sweet and sour are indispensable, and monosodium glutamate is added when cooking; Steamed fish at home usually takes 1.5 minutes to cook.

Chu culture and diet have a long history, and there is too much knowledge for us to learn.