As the saying goes, "Food is the first priority for the people."

What were the characteristics of the people's diet during the Song Dynasty?

Let me tell you, after research, we really learned a lot of knowledge.

Chinese people's diet is mainly based on grains, supplemented by vegetables and meat.

With the Yangtze River as the boundary, the dietary structure of wheat-based food in the north and rice-based food in the south was fully formed in the Song Dynasty.

To this day, this is basically still the case.

As an agricultural nation, the Han people have always played a major role in their diet.

There were no owners of crops such as corn and sweet potatoes in the Song Dynasty.

Vegetables play an important role in Song people's diet, second only to grain, and the variety of vegetables is very rich.

Most of the meat was mutton, and fish was eaten more in the Southern Song Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, people generally had three meals a day. Of course, the poor were not guaranteed this.

The diet of the Song Dynasty was quite unique. Compared with the previous dynasties, the dietary structure of the people in the Song Dynasty had undergone major changes, with more vegetarian ingredients and more styles.

The foods we often eat today, such as ham, hot pot, steamed buns, bean sprouts, popcorn, etc., all came from the Song Dynasty.

There are also snacks that we like to eat today such as "jiaozi" (dumplings), "suobing" (noodles), "pyro-alkali water cone" (fried yuanxiao), "futuanzi" (glutinous rice balls), "fried dough sticks", and "egg fried rice"

" and so on were all invented in the Song Dynasty. Even the condiment soy sauce was also invented in the Song Dynasty.

The American Anderson said in his book "Chinese Food": "...China's great cooking was produced in the Song Dynasty. The food methods of the Song Dynasty include frying, stir-frying, boiling, deep-frying, roasting, roasting, stewing, stir-frying, stir-frying, stir-frying,

There are dozens of ways to cook it, such as steaming, boiling, mixing, soaking, and rinsing. The Song Dynasty is truly a paradise for food. But many of the delicacies of the Song Dynasty were later lost. "In the Song Dynasty, cakes were the staple food.

Any food made with flour can be called cake.

The "cooking cakes" that Wu Dalang sells in "Water Margin" are steamed buns.

During the Song Dynasty, teahouses began to become popular in towns, and tea ordering became popular in cities.

Decoctions were very popular in the Song Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, emperors often gave decoctions and tea as gifts to heroes and soldiers.

Citizens in the Song Dynasty had a very high demand for fruits, and fruits were equally important as food in restaurants.

In the food market of the Song Dynasty, refreshing drinks were also very popular among citizens.

Next, I will introduce to you a famous dish-Dongpo Pork!

Dongpo Pork was created by Su Dongpo in Huangzhou. After he was demoted to Huangzhou, he lived in poverty. Seeing that local meat was cheap and few people bought it, he cooked it himself and created the famous dish "Dongpo Pork" that has been famous for thousands of years.

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There is such a limerick circulated among the people in the Song Dynasty: "The pork in Huangzhou is as cheap as dirt. The rich refuse to eat it, the poor don't know how to cook it. The fire is slow and the fire is light. When the fire is sufficient, he will look good. Get up full every day

One bowl will make you feel full. "Now, everyone has a certain understanding of Dongpo Pork.

"Seven things to do when opening a door: firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea" This motto was coined by Wu Zimu in the Southern Song Dynasty.

He wrote in "Mengliang Lu": "Everywhere there are teahouses, wine shops, noodle shops, fruit shops, colored silks, woolen yarns, incense candles, oil sauces, rice, rice, fish, meat, and cured meat shops. Build a brokerage market house.

, often more than shops, and shopping around can be seen as food and drink, which is a quick defecation.