A recent TV series called "Song in the Clouds" caused complaints because it ignored historical facts and had too many gang scenes and time-travel scenes. The story took place in the Western Han Dynasty, but there were many foods and cooking techniques that were only available in the Tang and Song Dynasties.

, such as the steamer, only appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty, and was actually used in "Song of the Clouds".

In fact, "Xun Qin Ji" also has similar problems. For example, Xiang Shaolong stayed in a farmhouse in Zhao State, and there were sweet potatoes in the farmhouse. This stuff was not introduced to China at all during the Western Han Dynasty.

Of course, the first criterion for TV dramas is to be good-looking. Moreover, "Song in the Clouds" and "Looking for Qin" are not serious historical dramas, so there is no need to be strict.

Zhenjun of the late Qing Dynasty also noticed this phenomenon and recorded it in his "Tiangui Ouwen".

According to the record in Volume 10: "Wenchang Miscellaneous Records" of the Song Dynasty recorded the food of the Tang Dynasty in great detail. Zhenjun carefully studied these materials and found that most of the popular foods in the Tang Dynasty did not exist by the late Qing Dynasty.

The only ones left were Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings and Double Ninth Festival cakes. "Today only Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings and Double Ninth Festival cakes still exist."

As for festivals, such as human days and cold food, they were no longer popular in the late Qing Dynasty; February 2 of the lunar calendar was a festival in the Tang Dynasty, but it also ceased to be a festival in the late Qing Dynasty.

The famous delicacies in Chang'an at that time include: A. Xiao's wontons.

Later generations speculated that wontons became independent from dumplings and became a delicacy in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but there are not many examples.

And this record is excellent proof.

Chang'an Xiaojia's wontons are delicious and the soup is fat but not greasy. You can make tea by removing the soup.

B. The Yu family’s rice dumplings are as white as jade, probably made from glutinous rice and jujube.

C. The "Cherry Biluo" made by Han Yue (Piluo was introduced from the Western Regions and is simply a kind of stuffed sesame cake). The color of the cherries does not change after ripening.

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Who is Han Yue?

A key figure in the most famous coup in the mid-Tang Dynasty, the "Nanlu Rebellion".

In the ninth year of Yamato, that is, in the winter of 835 AD, Emperor Tang Wenzong Li Ang, who had been bullied by the eunuch Qiu Shiliang and could not bear it, wanted to contact the prime ministers Li Xun, Wang Ya, Shu Yuanyu, General Zuo Jinwu Han Yue and others to kill Qiu Shiliang. The plan was to call Han

Yue lied that nectar suddenly fell from the pomegranate tree in Jinwu's courtyard, and invited Qiu Shiliang and other eunuchs to visit and take the opportunity to kill him.

The plan was originally very good, and several prime ministers also participated.

However, because Han Yue was too nervous after seeing Qiu Shiliang and sweated constantly in the winter, Qiu Shiliang became suspicious, and then quickly evacuated and hijacked the emperor, leading the Shence Army to counterattack, causing the emperor and ministers' plan to completely fail. Later, the eunuchs

Qiu Shiliang killed all the prime ministers and relevant ministers involved in the incident, and thousands of Chang'an court officials and their families died.

Of course, Han Yue didn't run away either.

It can be said that the "Manna Incident" is the most regrettable and regrettable event in the history of the Tang Dynasty and even in the history of ancient China.

The person who directly caused the failure of the incident was General Zuo Jinwu Han Yue who was trembling nervously when he saw the eunuch!

Although General Han has a poor psychological quality, he is very good at making delicious food. In addition to being good at making "Cherry Biluo", he can also make Lenghu tuguo (slice soup with fish meat), 醴鱼膇(sweet).

Flavored fish breast), steamed deer skin cake (a kind of deer meat cake).

Impressed.

D. General Qu Lianghan was good at roasting donkey manes and humps.

Roasted camel hump was also introduced from the Western Regions, which shows that many delicacies in the Tang Dynasty at that time had a Hu flavor.

Before roasting, the camel hump is cut into thin slices and added with various spicy condiments. It tastes delicious when cooked.

People in the Tang Dynasty loved eating, which has something to do with the popularity of the "burning tail feast" among the scholar class.

In the Tang Dynasty, if court officials were promoted by the emperor, they would have a banquet with the emperor; of course, if they passed the imperial examination, they would also have a banquet with relatives and friends.

This kind of meal is called "Shaowei Banquet".

Because according to the understanding of the people of the Tang Dynasty: being promoted or becoming a Jinshi is equivalent to a carp jumping over the Dragon Gate. According to a popular saying at the time: "After the fish jumps over the Dragon Gate, there will be flames in the sky that will burn off its tail and make it change its appearance."

In the Tang Dynasty, the most famous "tail-burning feast" occurred in the third year of Jinglong reign of Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty, that is, 709 AD.