The contents of the dish collected by the British Museum reveal the secrets of worship and burial in the Ming Dynasty.
You must know that our country has a cultural history of more than 2,000 years. There are many rules and customs passed down in terms of food customs and other aspects. This is a confirmation of our country's long history.
The British Museum has more than eight million collections, including my country's historical relics.
The British Museum has a very rich collection in the UK, but in the most conspicuous place of the British Museum is my country's precious collection.
There were ten pottery dishes, and ten things were placed on each plate. Through numerical research and analysis by modern researchers, it was determined that the ten things represented ten kinds of food, including fish, mutton, meat, steamed buns and other foods.
After reading the historical records, I realized that these things were tributes to the dead, so that they would not suffer from hunger in the underworld.
In fact, at the beginning, these tributes were all real food, but these foods were buried with the burial people. If real ingredients were used, they would all rot in a few days and there would be no way for them to accompany them.
Those who are buried are forever.
In order to solve this problem, people came up with a way, which was to use pottery to bake food and put it on a plate and bury it together with the person being buried.
In this way, there is no need to worry about the person being buried going hungry without having anything to eat.
Behind this period of history is the outstanding wisdom of our country's working people. Their continuous creation of new methods to solve problems is worth learning from.
But where exactly this method comes from remains to be explored.
We have found out that the food on the plate includes sheep, fish, steamed buns, sesame cakes and other such things.
Mutton and fish are available in various places. We can’t guess, but based on the eating habits of the north and south, tributes such as steamed buns may come from the north.
Because northerners like to eat pasta, especially steamed buns and noodles, while most southerners eat rice.
Therefore, based on this basis, we speculate that the cultural relics should have been unearthed in the north.
?The secret of the dish in the British Museum collection is that the food in the dish has been explained to us. It is the food cooked by the ancients in order to prevent the dead from starving.
It can be said that there is a reason why our country can still exist for more than two thousand years, because our people have infinite wisdom and creative ability, so they can continue to gain a foothold and develop in this rapidly changing era.