in cooking, cooking is cooking!

However, besides cooking with allusions, cooking is mainly called in the south of China and some northern areas near the south.

in addition, cooking is called "steamed rice" in some areas of our country, while in the north of our country, "steamed rice" refers to the practice of steaming rice in a steamer (or steamer). Therefore, if you don't understand, there will be misunderstanding.

Next, let's talk about the allusion to "cooking":

According to historical records, Liao, Jin, Yuan, Khitan, Nuzhen, Mongolia and other ethnic groups all have an important custom, that is, "cooking".

at the beginning of Qing dynasty, when Manchu just entered the customs, it also kept this custom. However, the specific content of "cooking" is not consistent in the relevant historical records, so future generations have different understandings of it.

according to Li Jie's "a long compilation of a mirror for continuing the rule of capital", after the death of the Khitan Lord, a large vault must be set up, and then a statue of Kim Joo-sung's Khitan Lord will be placed in the vault, and a sacrificial ceremony will be held in front of the vault every festival, anniversary and the first and fifteenth day. At the time of the sacrifice, a platform more than ten feet high was built, and a large basin was placed on the platform, which was sprinkled with wine and food and burned with fire, commonly known as "cooking". There is a similar record in Liao Shi Li Zhi Yi, but it is called Ruo Festival. The word "Daikin Guozhi" also records that when the Jurchen people died, "they burned everything they sacrificed to eat and drink, which is called cooking". Ye Ziqi's "Caomuzi" also contains: "When people died in the Yuan Dynasty, they cooked for the day." According to the above records, many people think that the so-called "cooking" is a kind of sacrifice to the dead, and the items burned are wine and food. However, some people think that "cooking" is not only used to pay homage to the dead, but also to worship ancestors and heaven. Its basis is that there is such a record in "Sacrifice in the History of Yuan Dynasty": "Every year, in September and after December 16, in the cooking yard, Ma Yi, Xue San, Ma Zhuo, Jiu Xing, three red woven gold coins and three inner silks were used, and one Mongolian official was ordered to join the Mongolian witch *, digging the ground to burn meat, and still drinking wine. Witch * salutes the imperial name in Mandarin. " Since it is a sacrifice in the name of the emperors of the past dynasties, it is of course a ceremony to worship the ancestors. There are also different views on the burned items. Xu Mengxin's "Compilation of the Three Dynasties North Alliance" records that after the death of Jurchen, "the deceased was buried without a coffin, and the noble person burned his favorite handmaiden and the pommel horse to be martyred, and all the sacrificial food was burned, which was called cooking". Some people think that there is no absolute difference between "martyrdom" and "sacrifice", so it is concluded that when Nuzhen nobles hold "cooking" sacrifices, they not only burn wine and food, but also burn living people and horses. In recent years, some people think that the so-called "cooking". It's actually cremation.

In addition, it is inferred that this custom did not actually begin in Liao and Jin Dynasties, but as early as Wei and Jin Dynasties, ethnic minorities in the north had this custom of burning objects to pay homage to the dead. Wang Shen's "Wei Shu" records that when Wu Huan people buried the dead, they gave them songs and dances, and took a fat dog, the horse and clothes of the dead, and burned them together. This custom spread to Liao and Jin dynasties, and was translated into Chinese as "cooking" and "Ruo Festival".

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