The small black sesame seeds through the Silk Road, accompanied by dust and hardship, dusty to the ancient civilizations of the East, was included in all kinds of pharmacopoeia, and the Chinese people in its in the pharmacopoeia of all kinds of at the same time, but also the black sesame seeds are widely used in the daily diet. With the understanding of diet and health culture, the industrious and wise Chinese people are constantly trying to seek the inspiration of transformation.
In this documentary, black sesame, a tiny plant, is brought to life in a way that perhaps only in China can a food be so prominent. From the small-ground sesame oil in Zhumadian, Henan Province, to the black sesame sugar and onion pancakes in Shantou, Guangdong Province; from the black sesame pancake fruits in Tianjin, to the honey sesame sauce in Nanning, Guangxi Province, it can be said that from the south to the north, from the east to the west, the black sesame seed is influencing our daily life and diet.
In many Chinese black sesame food productions, black sesame is more often used as a filling material and basically combined with sugar, mainly because sweetness is the simplest and most initial gastronomic experience for human beings, and the refreshing odor and extreme sweetness have written the most fragrant and sweet chapter in the history of Chinese taste memory. From black sesame candies to peony silver silk pastry, no matter it is black sesame dumplings or hot sesame paste, the sweet moment of eating it and overflowing the taste buds is the most blissful moment.
Black sesame is not only used in traditional food production, but nowadays, people who emphasize on health care are also using the tools of today, and using their own thinking to create a thousand variations of black sesame food, such as black sesame iced moon cake and black sesame lasagna with coconut milk, etc., in the Cantonese style tea ceremony.
From oil to sauce, from filling to crust, from pastry to Western-style desserts, Chinese people from different regions, with their own hard-working and wise hands, skillfully use black sesame to create different forms and flavors of food, not only because of the sweetness and deliciousness of black sesame, but also because of the deeper reason lies in the mystery of the health of black sesame behind.
Chinese people pay attention to the same source of food and medicine, and black sesame in the ancient records can be traced back to the ancient medical works of "Shennong Ben Cao Jing", in the Taoist health culture, nine steam nine sun black sesame is the most extreme use of black sesame, however, with the changes in history, which has gradually faded to the daily use of the family, but the wisdom of this health in the folk to continue.
Taoism believes that nine for the extreme number, and the pole means transformation, to understand the way of health, we must first understand the yin and yang **** survival, the unity of mankind. And nine steam nine sun of black sesame is embodied in such a thought, in nine times the alternation of yin and yang, the physical structure of black sesame itself and the composition of the structure to break the deeper level to stimulate the efficacy of health care.
Taoist health care is the core component of Chinese health culture, and has a profound influence on Chinese medicine health care, Chinese medicine health care follow the laws of yin and yang, and promote the concept of prevention of not treating the disease and treating the disease before it occurs, and regard the human body as the same attributes of nature as a whole, Chinese medicine believes that the five colors into the five viscera, and the black sesame seeds because of its excellent tonic effect on the kidneys are widely used in all kinds of health care formula.
In the "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" came out more than a thousand years later, the West put forward the concept of plant nutrient analysis, in the experiments on black sesame, found that black sesame is rich in a variety of antioxidants, which is rich in selenium, an anticancer element. From this can be seen, most of the Chinese medicine canon mentioned that black sesame has the effect of prolonging life is not unfounded.
The Chinese, who advocate the homology of food and medicine, like to use food in their daily life in the most simple way, realizing the idea of curing the disease. The Chinese culture of health care seems to be subtle, but with the results of scientific research, the Chinese in the health care system, the understanding of black sesame and the use of dietary practices, is the real wisdom.
In traditional Chinese folklore, food is not just a fruitful function, they are more carrying the national respect for heaven and earth, the prayers of relatives, cohesion of the whole clan's high hopes for prosperity. Black sesame was selected by the ancients from a large number of ingredients for its excellent health value and unique aromatic odor, cooked healthily, presented exquisitely, and consecrated sacredly, accompanied by old age, sickness and death, and the change of festivals, and passed down from generation to generation in the oral tradition of the clan groups.
From rituals to marriages, from thoughts to symbols, black sesame seeds send people's respect to parents and reverence to heaven and earth. Ritual food is the most special memories in a person's life. Ancient food continues the expectations of ancestors for their offspring, and also condenses the blessings among relatives, imprinting the most beautiful moment in life. From Yangmei kuey teow, camelback kuey teow to a series of food products such as ring tea, ginger salt bean sesame tea, the subtle Chinese people express their emotions through food.
As a blessing food for festivals and folklore, black sesame seeds are used to honor heaven, parents, bless marriages, and *** congratulate reunions. It is a way for the subtle Chinese to express their emotions, and it is the lingering family sentiment of the Chinese, which is always accompanied by the noisy gongs and drums and the laughter of the reunions to become the memories of the happiest time of the Chinese people's lives.
The development of black sesame is slow in China, still in the mode of small workshops, but if the handmade workshops maximize the preservation of the originality of the taste, then the industrialized production makes it possible for the wider dissemination of traditional food. From the ancient Oriental wisdom to sophisticated modern science, people have never stopped exploring black sesame, people have high hopes for it, the story behind the black sesame is the crystallization of thousands of years of human wisdom, is the life of the watch, is the sentiment of support.
Black sesame is the result of the encounter between Chinese and Western cultures across thousands of years, no matter how time passes, it is still in our lives.
Black Sesame is the result of the encounter between Chinese and Western culture across thousands of years.