There is always a unique figure of noodles on the dining table of China people, especially the northerners' love for noodles is hard to find, so that countless ways of eating are born, and each place has its own unique pasta skills. If we make an exhibition of pasta, it is estimated that it will not only open the eyes of foreigners who only know how to eat toast, but even China people can't imagine that our ancestors were so clever and left us so many wonderful foods.
In fact, noodles have been popular all over the country for their simplicity, convenience, refreshing taste and easy digestion and absorption since they came out in China more than 4,000 years ago. You know, although our ancestors invented the planting technology of wheat a long time ago, in fact, for many years, our wheat, like rice, was used for granular steamed cooked food. Such food not only tastes bad, but also is not easy to digest. Here, I feel sorry for those ancient people for five seconds.
Later, after the nomadic people first discovered the technology of grinding wheat and spread it to the Central Plains through ethnic integration, noodles quickly came from behind and became an indispensable staple food on the table of every household, which also led to the rapid expansion of wheat planting area. People here can't help wondering, since our ancestors were so clever, why did they only invent noodles instead of bread?
People can't agree that the taste of noodles is more in line with the taste of China people, because bread, the staple food of westerners, is also sought after by everyone once it enters China. Bread and noodles, the partners in the kingdom of pasta, formed two development paths in the East and the West, which had a great relationship with the different living habits of the East and the West at that time. Because we invented pottery earlier, we prefer to steam and cook the staple food inside, while westerners cook pasta directly with fire.
The subtle differences at the beginning actually led to the formation of two major food factions. When orientals used pottery, they naturally used more water, and fixing flour became people's choice at that time. However, westerners, because they baked directly with fire from the beginning, figured out the characteristics of flour baking in long-term production practice and gradually invented bread. We also know that people can easily form thinking inertia. The noodle-making technology produced under specific historical conditions also restricted the thinking of the ancients to a certain extent, making them focus on different forms of noodle making, without thinking about whether the flour used to make noodles has other uses, such as making exquisite and delicious bread.
The use of chopsticks also makes noodles have a bigger market in China. Since then, people have gradually invented that flour can be made into steamed bread after adding water, and stuffing can be put in the middle, thus producing steamed buns, jiaozi and even dumplings and wonton. But like noodles, these foods need to be cooked in water instead of baked like bread. Because the ancients had mastered the noodle technology, they didn't think about another delicious possibility of flour. However, we don't have to underestimate ourselves or feel sorry. If we had invented bread, there might not be so many kinds of pasta today.