And the wide range of fruits is related to its history. It is said that the fruit of harmony is based on the rice cakes and rice dumplings that Japanese people have been ready to eat since ancient times, and it is developed by integrating the characteristics of foreign foods such as Tang fruit, Zen dim sum and Naiman fruit.
The Japanese are better at compromise with foreign countries. They absorb foreign food culture and improve and innovate in vision, taste, tongue touch and smell according to Japanese preferences. Further, the fruit is made with the different natural characteristics of the four seasons, such as red leaves in autumn, snow in winter, cherry blossoms in spring and catfish in summer, and the fruit is named after famous sentences such as Hege Haiku.
It is also the aesthetic consciousness that only Japanese people have to reflect the four seasons through harmony with fruits. The thoughts placed on nature constitute the shape of the fruit of harmony, and thus the beautiful fruit of harmony was born. What a luxury it is to take its beautiful posture into your body with love.
And there are also many fruits related to seasons, mid-year ceremonies and the transition points of life. In the mid-year ceremony, the fruits of harmony are mostly made of rice cakes and adzuki beans. This is because people think that rice cakes have spiritual power, and the red color of adzuki beans can ward off evil spirits. When we know that different kinds of fruits contain people's different wishes, the taste of them will be deeper.
Hehe fruit flourished in the Edo period, when it lasted for more than 300 years. In addition, local fruits and fruits are constantly being renovated, and foreign fruits using cream and chocolate are also on the scene. And it can be easily bought in the supermarket as an occasional food. This way and fruit can be seen everywhere around us.
Therefore, many people will be confused: what kind of fruit should be chosen at this time? Step into the world of harmony fruit with everyone today and find your own taste method of harmony fruit. Experience the comfortable time brought by "quiet and fruity".
First of all, introduce the basic knowledge of fruit and the classification of fruit.
And fruits are roughly divided into three categories. Mainly classified by the moisture contained in the state of the finished product.
1 When the finished product contains about 30%-40% water, it is called "raw fruit".
This kind of fruit is used as the main fruit in tea seats, such as "practice cutting" and "こなし" and "cypress cake", "grass cake", "red bean rice", "water sheep soup" and "rice cake".
A fruit whose water content is between10% and 30% is called "half-baked fruit".
Represented by "Zhongzhong" and "Stone Clothes" made of honey for grinding adzuki beans.
3 The fruit whose water content is below 10% is called "dry fruit".
The "flat sugar" used in tea seats is represented by "wild goose", "pancake", "muffin" and "popcorn".
And fruits are made of different materials according to the seasons.
Autumn (September-11month) is the harvest season, so the fruits such as chestnut, persimmon and taro are on the scene. If you want to taste the delicious chestnut of that year, you should first choose "chestnut golden time" and "chestnut deer and cake"
Winter (1February-February), such as steamed bread wrapped in thin bags and Dafu, is very weighty, which makes people feel warm and warm. It is also a good season to taste baked fruits such as "snapper burn" and "Imagawa burn".
In spring (March-May), fruits with the fragrance of grass or leaves like "grass cake" and "cherry cake" begin to be lively. "Young fruit", "cypress cake" and "Zongzi" are mostly fruits closely related to various mid-year ceremonies.
In summer (June-August), when it is used in cold weather, Ge Fen's fruits with cool visual effect and smooth taste are more popular. Needless to say, Ge Fen-wrapped steamed buns are also very popular.
Here is a brief introduction to the common fruits and their history.
1 pancake
The origin of pancakes is said to be fried with mixed wheat flour. In the Edo era, cakes based on wheat flour or rice cakes were made into various fruits with light sweet taste, so they were well known. Soy sauce pancakes made of japonica rice were popularized after Meiji.
2 mutton soup
Mutton soup is the soup of mutton as shown in the text. As one of the snacks, it is said that it originated from a Zen monk in China. Zen monks are forbidden to eat meat, so they are cooked with adzuki beans, wheat flour, Ge Fen and so on, which looks like sheep soup. The cold weather in the Edo period was developed and used, and the refined mutton soup was born.
3 mantou
According to legend, steamed bread, like mutton soup, originated from Zen monks in China during Kamakura-Muromachi period. At the beginning, it was mainly made in temples. It is said that the stuffing of the package is also cooked with vegetables. Sweet adzuki bean stuffing was popular in the Edo period and penetrated everywhere.
4 Dafu
Dafu originated from the "quail roast" with stuffing. It is more full than Dafu, so it is also called "belly cake". During the reign of Kuanzheng (1789 ——1801), the belly cake was sold under the name of "Dafu cake". Perhaps eating a blessing to such a meaning makes people happy and wins popularity.
5 Tuanzi
There are many etymologies of dumplings. One of them is the "group happiness" of Tang Guozi. The simplicity and simplicity of processing the mixed rice flour into a ball shape makes all parts of the country have their own famous dumplings. Headed by the dumplings offered at the mitarai Festival in Xiaya Shrine in Kyoto, the dumplings on the other side and the dumplings enjoying the moon are deeply related to the mid-year ceremony.
6 ぉ Juice powder and goodness (adzuki bean porridge with rice cake slices)
In Kanto and Kansai of Japan, the names of "juice powder" and "good at fighting" are different. It is said that juice powder originally refers to the juice in which fruit is put into soup. Good fighting comes from the "God is in the cake" made of rice cakes and adzuki beans, which are enshrined in front of God.
7 jinhuashao
Now quadrilateral is the mainstream. At first, it was round like a knife. The "silver cake" made of rice flour in Kansai spread to the Edo period, resulting in a round "golden cake" made of wheat flour. Further evolution has formed a quadrilateral like similar four-corner snacks.
8 Jiang mi tiao
In the Edo period, there was a kind of sugar fruit with the name "りん". Maybe it was named after the second time. But the real source is not clear. In the late edo period, it won popularity, and the pictures of the "Yamaguchi House" rice noodle shop were handed down.
9 mi Hua Tang
It is said to be one of the fruits of the Tang Dynasty sent by the envoy to the Tang Dynasty. Fried with fire to expand "rice revitalization" is written as Chinese character "Xingmi". The edo period was made everywhere. In Edo, as a specialty of Sensoji Temple's visit, "Lei Xing" is very popular in Osaka.
Finally, I will introduce the harmony fruit represented by the four seasons.
autumn
Peony cake (ぉはぎ), Chitose.
Adzuki beans, which are indispensable in Peony cake, have been thought to ward off evil spirits since ancient times. It is eaten on the other side, that is, at the autumnal equinox.
Chitose sugar is said to come from "chitose sugar" sold by Asakusa. It is slender in shape, mainly to celebrate the children's July 5th and pray for their health and longevity.
winter
Petal cake
In the first month of the Japanese royal family, they will prepare white round cakes with beans-colored rhombic cakes, burdock and Wei Zeng's "rhombic flower". Based on this, a petal cake was designed and made.
Cake flowers were sacrificed and decorated in the first month of 1 month 15 as a prayer for grain harvest. It is called "cocoon jade" in sericulture area.
spring
Lingbing, Zongzi, Baibing
The color of diamond cake is compared to peach blossom, snow and vegetation. The sharp end angle of the diamond also has the meaning of exorcism. Decorate and eat on March 3 rd, Daughter's Day.
Zongzi was originally a ritual food to eliminate bad luck.
When the new buds of cypress are not sprouting, the old leaves will not fall off the cake, so the cypress cake is popularized and developed in the Wu family society, which prays for the prosperity of future generations.
Zongzi and cypress cakes are eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival in the old calendar.
summer
Jiaxiang fruit, bean jelly
Jiaxiang fruit was made and popularized as a fruit used in the "Jiaxiang" ceremony on June 16. Now this day is positioned as "fruit day".
Bean jelly varies from region to region, and some provide it as spiritual food for the Bonin Festival (about the end of August). In some areas, the custom of eating bean jelly with a chopstick is still circulating.