China's millennium of history and culture is not only the history of war and power, but also a variety of delicious food culture, is also an important part of Chinese history and culture. Nowadays, China's cuisine is mainly the eight major cuisines, including "cooking, stir-frying, frying, deep-frying, choking, boiling, stewing, baking" and other more than a hundred kinds of cooking techniques. What were the eating habits of the people in the Qin Dynasty more than 2000 years ago? Many people will say, look at the TV costume drama does not know!

But today, many TV dramas are not rigorously produced, and the details are wrong everywhere. For example, the Han Dynasty's concubine in the bedchamber with a dish of Virgin fruit, the Tang Dynasty's amah in the Chang'an street market selling roasted corn, the Song Dynasty's good men in the middle of nowhere in the black store to be a plate of patted cucumber ...... completely ignore these vegetables and fruits, at this time, still stay in the European Americas Persia and other should be the homeland, has not yet been informed by the people of the great China in my grand country. People "can eat, dare to eat, will eat", but more than two thousand years ago in the Qin Dynasty, people's table is actually very monotonous.

First, the ingredients.

During the Qin Dynasty, people basically ate only two meals, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and went to bed early at night without eating. Staple food, at that time, the south is mainly rice, while the north is mainly corn (millet), and occasionally eat millet (yellow rice), beans (soybeans), hemp, wheat, sorghum and so on. In addition to the staple food, is the dish.

There was not a lot of meat in the Qin Dynasty, and dogs, pigs, sheep, deer, chickens, ducks and fish were the main meat on the table. Different from now is that the Qin Dynasty is not so many "dog lovers", then the people are often eat dog meat, "cunning rabbit death, dog cooking" is then passed down, kill dog meat sellers all over the place, and even "dog butcher".

In addition, there is the common "beef" in the TV series, but beef is extremely rare. In China, almost the entire ancient society, cows were an important labor force in the cultivation of the fields, and the management and protection of them by the government were very strict.

The Qin Dynasty was no exception, the government's protection of cattle is very strict, so strict that even the cattle carcasses have to be surrendered, surrendered is not said to be buried on the burial, but to come to a "butchering cattle" - the cattle carcasses decomposed into skin, meat, tendons, horns, respectively, to sell money, in this case you can buy beef. Only in this case can you buy beef. In addition, the Qin Dynasty, although many laws, but only no wildlife protection law, will be able to hunt the family can also hunt game to play the teeth.

Even in the Qin dynasty, you had to mix and match meat and vegetables, but vegetables were not as plentiful as they are now. There are dozens of vegetables mentioned in the Book of Songs, but now most of these vegetables are wild vegetables, and in the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were five kinds of vegetables that were commonly eaten, which were called "five vegetables", namely, sunflower, patchouli, scallion, green onion, and leek. Aoi is now known as winter sunflower or winter amaranth, patchouli is the soybean leaves, scallion is now used in the south of the cellar head pickles, green onions and leeks with the same now.

Second, the practice.

Qin Dynasty can not have an iron pot, and even vegetable oil will not appear until the Han Dynasty, so don't think about stir-frying. At that time, the ancients ate the most is probably "barbecue", not that they like to eat barbecue, but they will only grill.

Barbecue, can be considered the most primitive human cooking method, but also the easiest way to cook. Qin Dynasty, the meat directly on the fire, called "burnt"; threaded into a skewer, is similar to today's skewers called "hot"; if the meat outside the bread on the mud, and then directly on the fire is called "like". "

This is the first time I've ever seen a chicken in a restaurant, and I've never seen one before.

Unfortunately, there is no barbecue world, "the pride of the two generations" - cumin and chili, cumin in the Tang Dynasty after the Silk Road into the western region of China, and chili is even later, to wait until the end of the Ming Dynasty, will only be imported into China from South America. In the Qin Dynasty, the most used seasonings were salt and pepper.

In addition to grilling, steaming and boiling were also common cooking methods at the time. Often see the end of the Qin dynasty lords cooking things to entertain people, the mood is not good, but also to engage in a few people cooking, like the Chu-Han hegemony, Xiang Yu threatened to Liu Bang his old man to cook. Cooking needs utensils, in the absence of pots, bronze tripods and other bronze became the first choice, but these things are exclusive to the nobility, civilians can only use pottery.

Several other practices, it is more non-mainstream. For example, "popular" in the "chop", is the raw meat cut into slices dipped in seasoning to eat; "stain" is the meat into the wine marinade soaked; "minced meat" is made into a meat sauce. "is made into a meat sauce;" "Pro" is the raw meat cut into strips, marinated and air-dried, also known as "脩".

After talking about meat and vegetables, let's take a look at fruits. Unlike vegetables, the varieties of fruits in the Qin Dynasty were not so different from modern times. There were already pears, peaches, plums, apricots, persimmons, oranges, plums, and so on. Of course, the flavor was certainly no match for the artificially selected fruits we have today.

Due to the development of society, the Qin Dynasty cooking technology and ingredients are relatively few, and whether it is meat or fruit, at that time are not the average people can often eat, the people's food is still mainly staple food. Until later, the Han Dynasty opened up the western region to introduce a large number of ingredients, the Ming Dynasty from the Americas imported a large number of ingredients, food is gradually abundant.