It's the end of the year, and it's the season for bamboo shoots to be on the market, and there are bamboo shoots with shoots for sale in the grocery store. During the New Year's holidays, a bamboo shoots stew is a great way to get rid of the oil and grease and make your mouth slippery. If you like to eat bamboo shoots, there are also dried bamboo shoots after foaming, shredded stir-fry, even if you do not add meat, it is also a very refreshing flavor.
Dong Po said, rather than eat meat, can not live without bamboo, although it seems to be written in the living environment, but Su Shi life hobby delicious, I am afraid that the biggest selfish, not ornamental, but can eat bamboo shoots it. After all, things are precious, bamboo shoots in the end is not ordinary fast-growing vegetables, since ancient times as mountain treasures.
So when did it become a mountain treasure?
This history can be traced back to primitive society. People dug up the roots of nature's plants as many animals do, and naturally they didn't miss the bamboo shoots, which were one of the winter's tender roots that wild boars and winter animals in the mountain forests loved to arch and eat.
In terms of historical climate, the Yellow River basin of the Zhou Dynasty had a temperate climate and was filled with lush bamboo forests. But bamboo shoots were rare because they grew in bamboo forests. Bamboo shoots are new shoots that sprout from the underground rhizomes of the bamboo. After the spring rains, these new shoots break through the ground and grow rapidly, quickly sprouting branches and leaves, and because of their rapid growth, they taste old and are not edible. Most of the edible bamboo shoots are in winter and early spring, which means that the yield is not high. And young bamboo shoots away from the land is easy to rot, in the ancient transportation conditions are limited under the premise of these bamboo shoots is certainly the food of the mountain people, but the city is a rare delicacy.
So there are historical records, the Zhou Dynasty as a feast on the existence of mountain treasures. Certainly the bamboo shoots were precious, certainly before written records.
"The Han Hou, the ancestor of the Han Hou, stayed at the Tu.
The father of Han preserved him with a hundred jugs of wine.
The meal was served with fresh fish and soft shellfish.
The food was a delightful feast of fresh fish and fresh turtles, and the food was a feast of bamboo shoots and cattails.
The gift is a ride on a horse and cart.
"The fruits of the fruit are there, and the Hou's Yanxu" ("韩奕"), a poem from the Classic of Poetry ("诗经大雅"), says, "King Xuan, the king of beauty, was able to order the vassals.
The poem records the ceremony in which King Xuan of the Zhou Dynasty conferred the title of Marquis of Han, and when the Marquis of Han was ready to leave the capital, all the officials gave him a farewell party according to the etiquette, and although the emperor did not appear here, it was presided over by the elders and high officials of the palace, with a great ritual of ancestor worship. After sacrificing the ancestors with a hundred pots of wine and delicacies, those dishes were eaten by Han Hou and the hundred officials.
What was in that fine and delicious dish, turtle and fresh fish, seasonal bamboo shoots and young shoots of cattail. These were privileges, the best mountain and sea food of the time.
In the Zhou Ritual, "the actuality of adding beans, bamboo shoots, fish and minced meat", the best gift food used for rituals was the top dishes placed on copper plates, which included bamboo shoots.
Bamboo in the Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties was widely used, bamboo ware, bamboo slips, for cultural heritage and exchange played a significant contribution. At this time, the northern basin is still much bamboo, so people still have a lot of opportunities to eat bamboo shoots. But there is a point, bamboo shoots freshness difficulties.
At the end of the Han Dynasty, climate change, bamboo forests in the north because of the cold most of the dead, to the period of the North and South Dynasties, the climate warmed up, but at this time, the use of bamboo as a writing material has been replaced by paper, the scale of bamboo planting is also reduced.
The opportunity to eat bamboo shoots was less frequent. The bamboo shoots are also more precious and continue to be the delicacy of the nobles. And at this time, the aristocrats planted bamboo forests became the trend, because the bamboo itself to repair the beauty, carry a lot of cultural heritage, eat bamboo shoots, enjoy the bamboo forest, is a private garden of pleasure.
"Care to think of the spring stone, drive out of the city platform.
Playing with bamboo shoots before spring, surprised by the flowers after the snow plum.
The green mountains are a perfect match, and the yellow scrolls are open again and again.
The long rope is not tied to the sun, and a cup of wine is poured into it." Chen Dynasty -? Jiang Zong's "Poem on Returning to the Residence at the End of the Year" (年暮還宅诗?)
The last prime minister of the Chen Dynasty left the city to return to his estate outside the city as the year was about to end.
His estate was at the bottom of a hill with bamboo forests and plum blossoms. He said he admired the bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest before spring and loved the plum blossoms under the flying snow in the waxing moon.
Then at this time the bamboo shoots, most of them buried under the soil, only a small part of only a little bit of new shoots, certainly this is Jiang always love this late winter upward spring and spring, but he is also the most able to eat winter and spring bamboo shoots of this kind of people.
What does he love? He loves the bamboo shoots that are about to break through the ground.
Usually loves what he eats, he's a Versailles-like show-off. At least it is difficult for others to eat bamboo shoots, he is a landlord who owns his own mountains, forests and fields, and eats them whenever he wants.
" Fragrant rice green Mizushu rice, Jia Vegetable green bamboo shoots stem
Vow to accompany the end of the Qingfan, sit down to learn the lifeless." ? The Tang Dynasty -? Wang Wei's excerpts from "Touring the Penitentiary Temple"
In the Sheng Tang era, bamboo shoots were commonplace in the mountains and forests, but still a problem in the city.
Wang Wei is a rich man who owns the Rim River Villa, and he knows more about the deliciousness of fresh bamboo shoots. This is not, he traveled to the probationary temple, nothing impressed him, the meal here is to impress him.
That rice was made from the fruit of the Mushroom rice, and that delicious dish was the tenderest bamboo shoots.
Here I felt the special clear beauty of Buddhism and meditated to learn about immortality.
The affluence and prosperity of the Tang Dynasty also made the city more crowded, the capital is the center of political, economic and cultural exchanges, the only bad thing is that you can not breathe the sweetest air and eat the most pollution-free natural delicacies.
But the transportation in the Tang Dynasty is much more developed than the previous generation, want to eat bamboo shoots, there are ways to buy ah with money.
Bamboo shoots out of the mountains, on to the table of the dignitaries, after transportation, loss, the production of bamboo shoots itself has seasonal limitations, so the price soared, but can not resist the love of the people, which is a symbol of class and treatment.
"This state is the bamboo country, spring bamboo shoots full of valleys.
The mountain men folded and hugged them, bringing them to the morning market.
Birds are cheap, and it's easy to get a bunch of them for a couple of bucks.
They are cooked in a cauldron at the same time as the rice.
The purple culm sheaths chap the old brocade, and the plain skin breaks the new jade.
Every day, I eat more, and I don't want to eat meat for a long time.
I have been a guest of Beijing and Los Angeles for a long time, and this flavor is often insufficient.
Don't hesitate to eat, the south wind blows as bamboo."
Although Bai Juyi simple, but he is at least a court official, after the late years, in Chang'an Luoyang do official residence, at this time the north of the bamboo forest is less, bamboo shoots are also less, but hospitality to Bai Juyi's high-ranking officials to pay each other a banquet, more than bamboo shoots, Bai Juyi called the purple bamboo shoots, is because of early spring bamboo shoots wrapped with a purple shell. Beijing banquet, Bai Juyi often eat bamboo shoots, very delicious.
But really see the mountains of bamboo and bamboo shoots in front of him, he is still very shocking.
Spring bamboo shoots full of mountains and valleys, farmers dug out on holding in the arms to run to the market, because here more so very cheap, two small money, a big one, put in the rice at the same time steaming. You see open the purple bamboo skin, inside the bamboo shoots like new jade, eat bamboo shoots do not want to eat meat ah. I was an official in the capital, often eat not painful, here, you can open your stomach to eat.
That is of course, you are in the capital, this bamboo shoots can have a few pieces to your mouth?
After the transportation, loss, the middle of the markup, the city of things are rare to push up the price of each other to climb, where is the ordinary people can afford to eat.
"Culm sheaths fragrant buds first out of the forest, in the Lings on the price of heavy as gold.
Huangdu land and sea should be countless, bear to cut Lingyun an inch heart." Li Shangyin? [Tang Dynasty] "first eat bamboo shoots to present the seat"
This is the poor teenage Li Shangyin, his family cold, or know bamboo shoots, also ate, but in the capital on the banquet of the rich and powerful family to eat smooth and delicious, the value of bamboo shoots, such as gold, it should still be the first time.
The capital's wealth and prosperity, luxury and disorientation and his own cold, formed a strong internal impact.
This is a banquet accompanied by Li Shangyin, who wrote poems to cheer up the party, and it is also a time for new guests to show their talent, hoping to get the master's favor and appreciation.
It must have been about bamboo shoots.
The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley.
The tender bamboo shoots, freshly grown, are fragrant and sweet, and when they are sent to the city, they are worth as much as gold.
The poem begins by praising the beauty of the bamboo shoots at the banquet and flattering the host's wealth.
The poem begins by praising the beauty of the bamboo shoots and the wealth of the host.
But Li Shangyin suddenly took a turn for the worse.
How can you cut off the bamboo shoots, cut off the bamboo shoots buried deep in the land, longing to see the sun, longing to grow the ambition of the ten thousand feet of the clouds?
I don't know much about the state of shock of those who saw and heard this poem at the banquet.
Was it embarrassment or silence or a turn of applause from the host?
But the poem has touched generations of readers. Who has not started as a new tender bamboo shoot and grown to flourish in life, who has not experienced the pain of being repressed?
But in terms of bamboo shoot poetry, this is one of the best singing poems, for this eager to grow shoots, please be more kind to you ah. Do not break the bent reeds, and do not extinguish the lamps that will be extinguished by the wind.
The Song Dynasty was a great dynasty that emphasized agriculture, so the consumption of bamboo shoots was more popular than the previous dynasty.
Bamboo forests in the winter and spring to dig away some bamboo shoots more suitable for the bamboo forest itself dense and strong, after all, too many bamboo shoots, but also easy to consume the land's nutritional resources. But winter and spring bamboo shoots are still expensive in terms of current prices, as they are needed for the annual festivals.
Song Dynasty popular eating mutton, pork followed, and bamboo shoots into the meat, absorbing the essence of the meat soup, but also has its own unique freshness, New Year's Day to eat, to solve the greasy, refreshing the abdomen is a treasured product.
"Rhinoceros skin wrapped in a bundle of jade as a catty, there is a feed for the son of the plate in the treasure.
The love of not wanting to eat the guests, the night secretly put wine call their neighbors." Northern Song Dynasty -? Han Wei and St. Yu eat bamboo shoots? Excerpt
Look at this Han stingy, dug out of the bamboo shoots, about a catty or so, specially left to good friends at midnight to wine to eat bamboo shoots.
Also said, I don't want to give other people to eat, is specially reserved for you.
Two people in the middle of the night bamboo shoots stewed meat, wine and gossip, not to talk about the freshness of the bamboo shoots itself, the environment and friendship is also intoxicating ah, that is to say, after the solution to the problem of food and drink, eat is an atmosphere.
This food is really the icing on the cake.
"Much life flavor moth-eaten simple, eat bamboo shoots is the remainder of the debt.
Xiao Ran Ying bottles, not willing to mix woad and mustard. "In the Northern Song Dynasty, Su Shi's "The Food of Huang Luzhi" was written in the same style. Su Shi "and Huang Luzhi eat bamboo shoots second rhyme" excerpt
Su Shi and Huang Tingjian eating method is additionally different, Su Shi is not love to eat Dongpo meat? The way they both ate it was that meat was meat and bamboo shoots were bamboo shoots. Two people love to eat bamboo shoots, and is stir-fried and boiled. It is said that eating bamboo shoots is to repay the bamboo debt, and I do not know whether the bamboo owes them or they owe the bamboo shoots.
What is the extent of the food, not only no meat, even with the vegetarian mushrooms are not.
But the bamboo shoots naturally have a kind of sweet and sweet taste, Su Shi and Huang Tingjian have experienced relegation, tribulation, hunger, they are the beauty of bamboo shoots, is to eat out of the most simple flavor of life.
With the development of contemporary transportation, the maturity of preservation technology, and the scientific management of bamboo forests, it was once difficult to eat the mountain treasures, asparagus and spring bamboo shoots into the common people's homes, bamboo shoots sweet and delicious, refreshing water, is the winter and spring seasonal food.
When you see the lovely bamboo shoots, what poems of the ancients come to mind?
First Clothes Winning Snow interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you.