China people often say: The most delicious food in the world is rice, and this is the best noodle in this rice. Caruso, a master singer, has been abroad for many years, but what he misses most is a bowl of spaghetti. Was noodles invented by China or Italians? There has been a debate in academic circles, but there is no answer. However, the accidental discovery by archaeologists in Qinghai, China, has found the answer to this historical unsolved case.

These ancient noodles discovered by scientists are well-preserved, long, thin and yellow, and are held in an upside-down sealed bowl. The bowl was excavated at the Lajia site in Minhe County, Qinghai Province, northwest of China, and the bowl of noodles was buried in the sediment 3 meters deep. This irrefutable evidence shows that China undoubtedly invented this kind of pasta earlier than other countries.

Lv Houyuan, a scientist at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of China Academy of Sciences, said, "This is the earliest physical evidence of noodles." Scientists have determined that this noodle is made of millet and sorghum. Millet is a native grain in China, which was widely planted 7 years ago. Modern noodles in North America and Europe are usually made of wheat flour. Patrick McGovern, an archaeologist at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, said the discovery would be "very surprising" if the cooking time of this bowl of noodles was confirmed correctly. Even today, he said, making long and thin noodles like those found in La's home requires skillful skills. He said: "This shows a fairly high level of food processing and cooking technology."

Italians and Arabs want to compete for the invention right of noodles.

This discovery by archaeologists in China will definitely make Italians feel uncomfortable, because they have always claimed that the invention right of noodles should belong to Italy. In fact, noodles are a popular food in the world. It has been debated for decades which culture invented this food. Italians and Arabs want to get the right to invent this food. They said that they have been eating noodles for more than 2 years.

it is not unreasonable for Italians to compete for the invention right of noodles. What is the symbol of Italy? The tourists' answer is really surprising. It is neither Italian fashion nor Michelangelo, nor Ferrari sports car, but-spaghetti: long, round, flat, spiral, dyed yellow with eggs, dyed green with spinach, dyed dark red with cuttlefish and filled with cheese ... According to the statistics of the Italian Noodles Industry Federation, the annual output of spaghetti in the world has reached 1.

Historians have never reached an agreement on the origin of spaghetti. Some people think that spaghetti was brought to Italy by Kyle Poirot from China. Others believe that as early as the 7th century BC, the people of Therus, who lived in northern Italy at that time, began to make noodles. The ruins of Therus Khan in the 4th century BC found in Tuscany are the best proof. Among the unearthed cultural relics, people found a large wooden table for mixing noodles and kitchen utensils that must be used to cook noodles. As can be seen from these appliances, the people of Therus at that time had already started to make noodles of various shapes.

There is also evidence that after Octavian became Caesar of ancient Rome, the population of Rome has reached 1.5 million. Ensuring the food supply for many citizens became a serious problem for the ancient Roman government. So, people at that time came up with a new way to preserve flour. Flour is first made into dough, and then the dough is cut into noodles with a knife. This kind of noodles can be preserved for at least one year after drying in the sun. As a result, dried noodles became popular among Italians. However, the people who ate dry noodles at that time were civilians, and the nobles and the rich still ate freshly made noodles at home. It was not until the 19th century that dried spaghetti became a table delicacy in all European countries.

Noodles are made from a mixture of sorghum and millet.

it is true that spaghetti has a long history. However, the newly discovered noodles in China can push up the history of eating noodles in China for more than 4, years. Only by this, Italians have to bow to their knees, unless they find more ancient evidence.

According to Lv Houyuan, before this bowl of noodles was found in Lajia archaeological site, the earliest record of noodles appeared in China's books during the Eastern Han Dynasty. Other theories hold that noodles were first invented in the Middle East, and then introduced to Italy by Arabs, and the Italians made noodles widely popular in Europe and finally spread to all parts of the world.

More evidence is needed to prove whether the noodles discovered by Lajia are the ancestors of Arabic noodles or spaghetti, but Lv Houyuan said: "In any case, the earliest record only appeared before 2." Gary Crawford, an archaeologist at the University of Toronto in Mississauga, Canada, said that it is not surprising to find noodles more than 4, years ago in China. He said, "This is in line with the fact that noodles have a long and important history in China."

In order to determine what the newly discovered noodles are made of, Lv Houyuan and his colleagues compared the shapes and styles of starch grains and shells in noodle bowls with those of modern crops. The research team concluded that this kind of noodle is made of two kinds of grains, one is sorghum and the other is millet. At that time, people first ground these two kinds of grains into flour, made dough, and then pressed them into noodles. Researchers say that millet lacks stickiness, and if it is made of millet flour alone, it can't be pressed into thin and long noodles.

China still uses noodles made of millet.

Archaeological evidence proves that China began to grow wheat more than 4, years ago, but it was not until the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-AD 97) that it was widely planted. According to Crawford, it's not surprising to make noodles with millet. His own research in a similar site in northern China proved that China was rich in millet and rice at that time, but little in wheat.

However, he added that the discovery of well-preserved cereal noodles helps to explain the lack of cereal seeds in some archaeological sites. He said: "There is a speculation that the seeds of grain are made into food by heating and flour food, so there is no need to leave too many seeds. If they make noodles from grain, that can explain this speculation."

Lv Houyuan said that even now, in the poor and remote northwest of China, people still make noodles with millet. He said: "Modern millet noodles have a harder texture than wheat noodles, so they are often called wire noodles." But strictly speaking, the noodles that people in China eat now are obviously different from spaghetti.