New Year's Powder BootcampHow did the ancients eat? Is it the same food we eat today?
1. From "sashimi" to "barbecue".
Originally, the ancestors of human beings ate raw food, including wild fruits and game flavors, which were neither hygienic nor easy to digest, and were prone to illness, resulting in the lifespan of many primitive human ancestors even only about ten years. It wasn't until 1 million years ago that primitive humans discovered the effects of fire and began to eat cooked food. In order to continue to use fire, people began to look for branches that were struck by lightning or branches that were ignited in the volcano and still had fire, to ignite the fire, but this way is very limited, slowly, human beings found that the collision between stones will produce sparks, after continuous improvement, and finally learned to "drill wood for fire", but this method is extremely test of endurance and strength, time-consuming and laborious, later, people found that the method of using flint to meet the fire sickle ignites, so they mastered the relatively suitable and convenient artificial fire method.
2. "The east likes spicy, the west likes sour, the south likes sweet, and the north likes sweet."The origin of ".
Due to the climate and environment affecting the growth of crops, the eating habits of different places present different preferences. Like Suzhou, Shanghai is the representative of the south, like to eat "sweet", about 2400 years ago, China has been planting sugarcane, to the Han Dynasty, people will use sugarcane to make sugar. Shandong people like to eat "salty", salt is the basis of Baiwei, the ancients made salt by frying, boiling and other ways to evaporate seawater to get salt. Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places like to eat "spicy", and the leaves or seeds and fruits of various plants can be used as condiments after picking and drying, such as pepper, fennel, star anise, bay leaves, etc. People in Shanxi and Guangxi like to eat "sour", and there were some vinegar-making workshops in China during the Spring and Autumn Period.
3. The difference between "eating tea" and "drinking tea".
More than 5,000 years ago, the ancients discovered that the leaves of the tea tree could detoxify, so the tea was used in medicine and chewed raw to cure diseases. More than 3,000 years ago, people began to grow tea trees in large quantities, and fresh tea leaves were eaten as a dish. About 2,000 years ago, people began to experiment with tea leaves as drinks, drying fresh tea leaves and boiling them in water. Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, tea has become a good product for chatting after dinner. In Yunnan, there is still an ethnic group that still eats tea, and there is a dish called "cold tea vegetables". During the Tang Dynasty, people began to add mint or red dates to their tea soups. In the Song Dynasty, the earliest tea soup "latte art" technology began to appear.
Tea leaves are divided into black tea, black tea, green tea, green tea, yellow tea, and white tea according to the degree of fermentation.
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Chilled honey water - Qin and Han favorites; (The Zhou Dynasty began to have "Bingjian").
Ice cheese - the favorite of the Qin and Han dynasties; (cheese + ice + syrup or fruit puree).
Drink - the favorite of the Sui and Tang dynasties; (Made with fruits and herbs).
Cool water - the favorite of the Song Dynasty; (Juice + Ice + Milk).
Limu thirsty for water - the favorite of the Yuan Dynasty; (Lemonade).
Sour plum soup - a favorite of the Ming and Qing dynasties
、Ingredients that flutter across the sea
Since the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, after Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, we began to trade with various countries in the Western Regions, and many vegetables and fruits were introduced to our country from this period, such as:
Fruits:Grapes and pomegranates are originally grown in West Asia and other places; Mango is native to India; Watermelons were introduced from Africa; Strawberries were introduced from Europe;
Vegetables:Yellow gourd, eggplant, lotus root, loofah, and lentils are originally grown in India;
Pasta:Hu cake was introduced in the Han Dynasty; The early buns were also called "Biluo".
Popular Science 1:These introduced foods, with "Hu" in their names, were introduced during the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty; The name with "fan" is introduced after the Ming Dynasty (tomato, sweet potato); The one with the word "foreign" in the name was introduced after the Qing Dynasty (onion);
Popular Science 2:Eight cuisines: Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Suzhou cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Hui cuisine;
Popular Science 3:The palace cuisine is known as "the first taste in the world."
Popular Science 4:The origin of "Gou Buli Bun", there is a young man named "Gouzi" in Tianjin in the Qing Dynasty, the buns made are very delicious, many people come to buy his buns every day, the business is so good that he often can't talk to customers, over time, people call him "Gou Buli", and the buns he makes are also called "Gou Buli Buns";
Popular Science 5:There are at least 108 dishes for the Manchu and Han banquets, and the ingredients cover all kinds of birds and animals.
In all dynasties, natural disasters and man-made disasters were indispensable to cause famine, and the people could only eat some wild vegetables, tree bark, gophers, and highly poisonous plants to satisfy their hunger, and the scene was miserable. At the end of the article, he called on all citizens to cherish and save food; One meal and one grain are not wasted, the disc action is done, and the rest of the rice is packed and I start!
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