China had a record of eating sashimi (fish fillet) as early as the Zhou Dynasty, which can be traced back to the fifth year of Zhou Xuanwang (823 BC). The inscription on the unearthed bronze ware "Xi Jia Pan" records that Zhou Shi met Peng Ya (now in Baishui County, Shaanxi Province) and returned home in triumph. General Yin Jifu gave a private banquet for Zhang Zhong and other friends. The main course was roasted turtle with raw carp slices. The Book of Songs. Xiaoya. June recorded this event: "Drink royal friends, cannon turtles and carp", and "carp" means raw carp. In The Book of Rites, there is another description: "You should use onions in spring and mustard in autumn", and in The Analects of Confucius, there is also a description of foods such as "you should not eat them with sauce", so the raw fish in the pre-Qin period should be seasoned with sauce with onions and mustard. Mencius. With all my heart, I also mentioned it. Zeng Xi was fond of sheep dates, but Ceng Zi could not bear to eat them. Gong Sunchou asked, "Which is more beautiful?" Mencius said, "It's awesome!" Sun Chou said, "But why does Ceng Zi eat mutton and jujube?" He said, "The sheep and jujube are unique. Anonymous surnames, surnames are the same, and names are unique. " This is also the origin of the idiom "popular", which originally meant popular delicacy, and later referred to the popularity and familiarity of the works.

sashimi is the most distinctive food in Japanese cuisine. According to records, it became fashionable for Japanese to eat sashimi in the 14th century. At that time, people used the word "Wan" to summarize sashimi and sashimi-like foods. At that time, "preserved" refers to raw shredded fish and shredded pork, and it can also refer to shredded fish and shredded pork soaked in vinegar. At that time, sashimi was just a cooking technique of "preserved". It was not until the 15th century that soy sauce was introduced to Japan and was widely used that sashimi was gradually dipped in soy sauce.

sashimi (sashimi) came into being during the Muromachi period (1392-1573) in Japan. There are many theories about the origin of this word:

One explanation is that "sashimi" is the transliteration of tachimi. Tachi is the name of Japanese Dao. (yanyuanti)

one explanation is that "sashimi" means "going left". (Evening Essay) The pronunciation of "Left" is sa; The pronunciation of "Jin" is shin. Toyama Prefecture just pronounced "sashimi" as sashin.

The general explanation is: "thorn" means to cut into small pieces or thin slices, or it means to cut and put into a platter. As for "body", it is mostly interpreted as meat.

Another explanation is that "thorn" means to string together, so it is named after stringing fish gills; And "body" is the name of gills.

In addition, "sashimi" is interpreted as covering, which is named because sliced fish can cover it when making sushi.

On December 21st, 1954, Guo Moruo published "On Sashimi" in Asahi Shimbun. Guo believes that sashimi comes from the "three infiltration" of Chinese. The so-called three infiltration may be to eat sashimi with soy sauce, vinegar and ginger juice. He said: the pronunciation of samsham is sashimi because the Japanese can't nasal. Just as the Japanese pronounce "kam" as ama and "am" as yami. This explanation is very consistent with Guo Moruo's very romantic and imaginative characteristics. Unfortunately, no specific materials have been found to support his statement.

what is more valuable is the textual research of Tetsuzu Yasutaro Yasuda in Japan. He points out that "meat" is called sich in Suman language in Malay, sach in Sakay language and man in Repucha language in Himalayan region. Sich,sach can be associated with sashi in sashimi, and man can be associated with mi in sashimi. He believes that there are sources of Japanese sashi and mi in these two languages. The early name of sashimi

The record of eating sashimi in China can be traced back to Wu Yue Chun Qiu written by Zhao Ye in the Eastern Han Dynasty. According to the biography of He Lv, after Wu Jun attacked the capital of Chu Ying, He Lv, the prince of Wu, set up a fish court to comfort Wu Zixu, and then fish court was established in Wu, which was 55 BC. Although many of the contents of Wu Yue Chun Qiu are from folklore, they are not entirely credible, but they can also be used as reference without other information.

After the Qin and Han Dynasties, cattle, sheep, and other domestic animals and wild animals became less and less common, usually fish, and a word "fish" was derived to refer to sashimi. "Yan" and "silver carp" are often mixed, but they should not be confused with the word "stew" which means that food is processed with fire.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Chen Deng, the prefect of Guangling, loved eating raw fish. He suffered from serious diseases such as intestinal infectious diseases and parasites because of excessive consumption, but he recovered after being treated by the famous doctor Hua Tuo. However, he continued to eat sashimi after his recovery, and finally died because of his gluttony.

Fish paste was a very common food in ancient times. Ying Shao in the Eastern Han Dynasty collected the customs and wonders of various places in "Customs General Meaning", one of which was: "Zhu 'a (now Zhu 'a Town, Qihe County, Shandong Province) does not eat raw fish". It represents Ying Shao's belief that not eating raw fish is unusual. I wish the Arab people this custom has been adhered to until the Sui Dynasty, in Sui Shu. It is also recorded in Geographical Records.

Cao Zhi of the Wei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms also likes to eat raw fish. In his "Famous Capital", there is a saying: "Cure the carp and fry the shrimp, and roast the bear's web with the turtle", and dip the raw fish in the shrimp paste to eat.

"preserved" refers to raw shredded fish and shredded pork, and also refers to shredded fish and shredded pork soaked in vinegar. Sashimi (sashimi) only refers to a cooking technique of "Yi" at that time. It was only after soy sauce was introduced into Japan and widely used that "sashimi" developed into a name referring to sashimi.

The writing form of sashimi

The word "sashimi" is written in the form of training reading Chinese characters; In ancient times, pseudonyms were often used to write (for example, Diary in the Palace of Imperial Soup was written on October 1, the fifteenth year of civilization, that is, in 1483 AD). The first two syllables sashi are written with "thorn". At first, the writing was not stable. In ancient times, "referring to the taste, poor body, poor taste, poor mark, thorn and bow" were used, and the pronunciation was sashimi, and more people used "referring to the body" to write (see "The Story of Suzuka", which should last for six years, that is, in 1399 AD). The pronunciation of "finger" is also sashi；; Later, I thought it had nothing to do with "finger", but moved the knife, so I found the "thorn" next to the vertical knife, so I interpreted sashi as "cutting the platter" and "cutting it and setting it up". This is indeed a bit of a vulgar etymology. The last syllable mi is often written with "body", which means meat. As for writing with "taste", it is obviously a matter of course to expect "sound" to generate meaning.

different names of sashimi

"sashimi" was originally the name of kanto region, and sometimes it is also called "uchimi" ("beating the body", meaning covering) and "tsukurimi" ("making the body", meaning platter. It is a title of Kansai, which is generally simply called tsukuri；; Also known as tsukuritoiu).

As for the word "sashimi", there are many phonetic variations in Japanese dialects, such as sashin and shyashin in Toyama Prefecture; Sasumi in Bazhang Island; Shyashimi in Shizuoka Prefecture and Tottori Prefecture.