Although some foods have a long history and famous names, have you ever wondered if the kind of food you heard from the protagonist in literary works or TV dramas is the one you imagined? In fact, those so-called foods in ancient times were not what we eat every day now, so what foods were called differently in ancient times? Next, I will bring the historical truth, let's take a look!

Steamed bread Speaking of steamed bread, it's a staple food, and it's indispensable on the dining table of almost every household in the north. Steamed bread has a history of more than 1 years. It is said that in the Three Kingdoms period, after capturing Meng Huo, Zhuge Liang was blocked by the ghosts who died in the past when crossing the river. In order to cross the river smoothly, the clever Zhuge Liang made the shape of a human head with flour and filled it with pork and beef stuffing to sacrifice to the river god. This is the origin of steamed bread, but in the Song Dynasty, the "steamed bread" mentioned by the population was not the steamed bread we often ate in our daily life.

The steamed bread originated in the Three Kingdoms period was not the steamed bread we ate without stuffing at first, but with pork stuffing or mutton stuffing inside. In the Song Dynasty, it became an exclusive fermented food with stuffing. There were many kinds of steamed bread in the Song Dynasty, and even steamed bread became a snack that students often ate. In the early years of Yuanfeng, Song Shenzong happened to meet too many students eating steamed bread when he visited Taichi, and Song Shenzong also ate one. After eating it, he was impressed by the taste. So there was the name "business steamed bread".

In addition, there are four-color steamed bread, raw stuffed steamed bread, mixed-color fried flower steamed bread steamed bread, bamboo shoots steamed bread, pork steamed bread, crab yellow steamed bread, grouted steamed bread and sugar steamed bread, all of which are stuffed without exception, which are totally different from the existing steamed bread.

The steamed stuffed bun is said to have originated in Sichuan, and the earliest name is recorded in Yan Yi's Mou Mou Lu: "On Renzong's birthday, I will give you a steamed stuffed bun." On Song Renzong's birthday, he gave the princes steamed buns, but the steamed buns at that time were an alias of steamed bread.

According to our records in Qing Yi Lu written by Taogu in the Northern Song Dynasty, the earliest name of steamed stuffed bun appeared: "There was a restaurant called" Zhang Shou Mei Jia "outside the gate of the capital of song dynasty in the Five Dynasties, which mainly sold seasonal food, and there was a" green purse "in Furi." "Green purse" is mainly made of lotus leaves, which can be eaten when sleeping, and has the function of relieving summer heat.

Later, the stuffing of slowly steamed buns was mostly vegetarian, and the dough of steamed buns was made of cold water noodles. Around the time of Renzong in the Northern Song Dynasty, steamed buns became another name of steamed bread, and then slowly steamed buns became fermented pasta food without stuffing, which is the staple food we eat now, while steamed buns are "steamed buns" with various fillings.

Cooking cakes Speaking of cooking cakes, everyone will think of Wu Dalang in Water Margin. Wu Dalang is not tall, honest and honest, but he was poisoned by his wife Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing. In Water Margin, what Wu Dalang sells along the street is cooking cakes. Now cooking cakes are mainly steamed from flour in a steamer, with auxiliary materials such as pulp and vegetables. In order to cater to the different tastes of the public, oil, salt and sugar are added in moderation.

But the cooking cakes sold in Wu Dalang are not like this. In ancient times, cooking cakes were made of flour and steamed in strips, which was a bit like long steamed bread. In ancient times, cooking cake was originally called steamed cake. As for why it was called cooking cake, it was recorded in Wu Chuhou's essay "Miscellaneous Notes on the Blue Box" in the Song Dynasty: "Renzong Temple is taboo, and its language is almost steamed. Today, the imperial court calls steamed cake cooking cake." Because Song Renzong's name is Zhao Zhen, in order to avoid Song Renzong's taboo, all steamed cakes were renamed kitchen cakes. But in fact, it seems that the name steamed cake is more intuitive, while the name cooking cake will make everyone think that cooking cake is similar to baked wheat cake.

The ancient people loved to eat "cakes", and they had the habit of eating cakes since the Tang Dynasty. However, the ancient "cakes" were not like the present "cakes", and the present cakes are mainly hard flour foods, which do not need to be fermented. When it comes to soup cakes loved by people in Song Dynasty, people may think that they are similar to scallion cakes and sauced cakes when eating duck blood vermicelli soup, but this is not the case. Soup cakes are not soup with cakes, but similar to noodles now. More intuitively, they are broad noodles or noodle soup.

Huang Chaoying, a Song Dynasty poet, wrote: "I said that anyone who uses flour as a utensil is called a cake, so those who eat on fire are called baked cakes, those who eat in water are called soup cakes, and those who eat in cages are called steamed cakes." Cooking cakes are made by fire, soup cakes are made by boiling water, and steamed cakes are made by steaming in a steamer.

Later, after a slow development, the soup cake developed into a water-induced cake. In Qi Min Yao Shu, the method of making water-induced cake was recorded: the noodles were filtered with supercooled broth and fine silk, and then "kneaded until they were big, one foot was broken, and the plate was filled with water. It is advisable to put your hand on the pan, "and then rub it" to make it as thin as leek leaves and boil it one by one. " Later, after the taste improvement of later generations, noodles came into being.

So it seems that when we read ancient Chinese books and come across such foods as "steamed buns", "steamed buns" and "cooking cakes", we won't question why people in the books eat steamed buns instead of eating them when they stay in hotels. After all, steamed buns in ancient times were vegetarian, but they were really stuffed with meat. How can they be happy to eat meat when they are vegetarian?