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Text Chapter 413 The Essence of Food Culture

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    Fish banquet is one of the major delicacies in China. China has been famous for its Manchu-Han banquet since ancient times. Chinese food is also rich and diverse. Here, the author believes that it is necessary to talk about some culture of food.  The dietary conditions and dietary customs of various ethnic groups and classes in the Chinese nation over the past five thousand years.  The introduction is that "food is the first necessity of the people", and eating is the primary means to achieve survival goals.  Therefore, the birth of life is the day when the activity of eating begins, but the activity of eating does not have utensils in its initial stage.  Before learning how to use fire, what humans ate and how they ate were no different from the animal kingdom, that is, they directly ate plant fruits and animal flesh and blood. This eating method of "rubbing hair and drinking blood" did not exist and did not require any eating utensils.  This stage is called the raw food stage.  After mastering the use of fire, people first grilled food in the fire before eating it.  Or heat the stone and then put the food on the stone to bake and eat, thus entering the primitive stage of cooked food.  China is an ancient civilization with a history of five thousand years. Its food culture and cooking skills are part of its civilization history.  It is the crystallization of China's splendid culture.  China has a vast territory and diverse climates, including tropical, subtropical, temperate and sub-arctic zones. It also has diverse terrain, including rivers, lakes and seas, mountains and plains. This provides Chinese food and cooking with different types and qualities.  Rich in animal and plant raw materials and seasonings such as fish, meat, poultry and eggs, delicacies from mountains and seas, fruits and vegetables.  Over thousands of years, Chinese food has accumulated exquisite cooking techniques. The cooking methods include: roasting, frying, roasting, stewing, stir-frying, braising, stir-frying, saut¨¦ing, smoking, braising, pan-frying, boiling, pasting, steaming and other recent methods.  There are hundreds of varieties, thus forming a wide variety of cuisines and varieties with different flavors.  According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 10,000 kinds of dishes across the country.  The famous Qing court banquet dish "Man-Han Banquet" has more than 120 kinds of hot and cold dishes on this table alone.  The Chinese food culture represented by this kind of big dish shows the gorgeous and magnificent "Celestial" and "Emperor" mentality, and shows the universal characteristics of Chinese traditional culture.  Chinese dishes are famous all over the world for their bright color, rich aroma, fresh taste and beautiful appearance.  Its shape is beautiful.  Especially the fancy cold platter is the most outstanding.  It is unique in shape, colorful and lifelike, presenting artistic scenery and patterns.  The mountains, rivers, trees, pavilions, flowers, birds, fish, insects, rare birds and animals are all included in the plate.  It seems like a beautiful picture, giving people enjoyment.  Moreover, every set of Chinese food is in even numbers, four, six, eight, ten etc. have become a general rule.  As the saying goes: "Two plates for guests, three plates for turtles." The pursuit of even numbers just reflects the Chinese culture's emphasis on "perfection" and the psychological habit of pursuing even numbers for profit.  China is a country of prosperous and powerful ethnic groups. In addition, 56 ethnic groups have 56 kinds of cuisine.  Among these 56 kinds of delicacies, many local specialties can be distinguished. If divided into details, there are countless kinds of dishes and countless kinds of flavors, forming a world of cuisine with Chinese characteristics.     everybody knows.  Food abounds in Chinese and Western food, so.  The names of our Chinese dishes are also unique.  It is rich in traditional Chinese cultural characteristics and gives people a wonderful aftertaste.  Such as dragons playing with pearls, spring white snow, silver pearls and peonies, gold and jade surrounded by emeralds, jade hands picking peaches, offering fish at the palace gate, etc., there are all kinds of varieties.  It is full of poetry and painting, and sometimes it is a kind of three-dimensional poetry paired with painting.  In China, you can tell where you go and where you eat.  Hotels, restaurants, restaurants and food stalls abound across the country.  Especially large and medium-sized cities.  In just one place, you can taste the food flavors from all over the north and south, famous meat and vegetable dishes, dim sum, noodles and porridge.  Seasonal snacks.  Even abroad, there are many Chinese restaurants, almost all over the world.  Moreover, these Chinese restaurants are often full of guests, overwhelmed, and business is very prosperous.  In the United States, there are an astonishing number of Chinese restaurants.  In New York alone, there are more than 5,000.  China has a vast territory and is the nation that attaches most importance to ¡°eating¡± in the world.  After thousands of years of development.  A broad and profound "food culture" has been formed.  For a long time, various places have formed their own unique flavors and different cuisines due to the use of different raw materials, different ingredients, and different cooking methods.  Among them, the eight more famous cuisines refer to Sichuan, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Hunan, Fujian, Hui, Zhejiang, Shandong, etc.  ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????:  "A place where water and soil support a person" is about adaptation.  China has a vast territory and diverse natural conditions.  The 56 ethnic groups living in China have each formed unique and rich dietary customs in different natural environments.  For example, the Mongolian, Tibetan, Kazakh and other ethnic herdsmen living on the prairie eat meat and drink milk; the Hezhen people live in the Sanjiang Water Town of Heilongjiang, where fish is the main food; and the Oroqen people who live in the dense forests of the Xing'an Mountains eat birds.  Animal meat This is an unchangeable dietary pattern in an era when transportation is underdeveloped.  The south is suitable for growing rice, so people in the south generally eat rice as their staple food; the north has a variety of wheat and other cereals, so the people in the north eat noodles and other cereals as their staple food; the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is suitable for growing green trees, so farmers of all ethnic groups living here have highland barley as their staple food.  Shuxiang is very humid and many people eat spicy food;In Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hunan, Guizhou and many mountainous areas, people like to eat sour food either due to water and soil problems or due to a long-term lack of salt in history These local characteristics in diet make China's food culture show a colorful situation.  Chinese food literature and art, the relationship between food and life realm, etc. are profound and broad.  From an extensional point of view, Chinese food culture can be classified from various perspectives such as era and techniques, region and economy, ethnicity and religion, food and tableware, consumption and level, folk customs and functions, etc., showing different cultural tastes and reflecting different  The use value is brilliant.  From the perspective of characteristics, Chinese food culture highlights the nutrition and health theory of nourishing and supplementing food (mainly vegetarian food, focusing on medicinal diet and supplements), and pays attention to "color, aroma and taste".  The theory of the harmonious state of the five flavors (distinctive flavor, delicious and delicious, known as "tongue dish"), the unique and mutually changing cooking methods (based on kitchen rules, flexible), and the refreshing and joyful view of food (gentle, elegant, and inclusive)  It has 4 major attributes such as (teaching on food) and has a natural beauty that is different from the food culture of overseas countries.  Chinese food culture not only pays attention to the bright and picturesque color matching of dishes, but also a kind of interest generated by the dining atmosphere. It is the personality and tradition of the Chinese nation, and it is also a way to highlight the traditional etiquette of the Chinese nation.  From the perspective of influence, Chinese food culture directly affects Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore and other countries, and is the axis of the Eastern food culture circle; at the same time, it also indirectly affects Europe, America, Africa and Oceania.  China's vegetarian culture, tea culture, sauce and vinegar, pasta, medicinal diet, ceramic tableware and soybeans have benefited billions of people around the world.  In short, Chinese food culture is a long-standing regional culture with a broad vision, depth, multi-angle, and high taste; it is the result of the development of food sources, the development of tableware, and the  Food preparation, nutrition and health care, and food aesthetics create, accumulate, and influence the material wealth and spiritual wealth of surrounding countries and the world. In the formative period of Chinese food culture, cereals and vegetables were the staple food.  During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, self-produced cereals and vegetables were basically available, but the structure was different from now. At that time, early field operations were mainly: millet, (the most important) millet, also known as millet, which dominated for a long time and was the leader of the five grains.  , Good millet is called Liangzhijiang, and its fine grain is also called Huangliang.  Millet, which is rhubarb sticky rice and second only to millet, is also called millet and is threshed millet.  Wheat, barley.  Shui is a legume, mainly soybeans and black beans at that time.  Ma, that is, pockmark.  Both Shu and hemp were eaten by the poor people, and hemp was also called Ju.  There is also rice in the south. In ancient times, rice was glutinous rice, and ordinary rice was called japonica rice. Rice began to be introduced in the Central Plains after Zhou Dynasty. It is a fine grain and is relatively precious.  Wild rice is the seed of an aquatic plant called wild rice. It is black and is called diaohu rice. It is particularly fragrant and smooth. It is put in a leather bag with broken porcelain pieces and rubbed for threshing.  Chinese food culture, especially some of the unsightly food that we have never heard of, all show the characteristics of a place. Especially in movies, we see travelers traveling around the world, and they show themselves to me.  Some of the delicacies I have personally tasted in the photos are rare. The author also likes food and prefers to study food. Two people cook the same food with the same ingredients and use the same seasonings.  The taste is also very different, which depends on the amount of heat used by the two people.  In addition, which ingredients or condiments are put first are closely related to the latter. For example, if we stir-fry a plate of pork, if we add vinegar directly during the stir-fry, then the dish must be  It is very tough. If you add a little water to the dish and some vinegar, the diluted vinegar will actually make the meat fresh and tender.  The author is telling you a little tip. When we want to boil a pot of cold water, it usually takes about ten minutes. If we add a little salt to the cold water, the water that originally took ten minutes to boil will be cooked earlier.  to 5 to 8 minutes. This is because salt has a heat-absorbing effect and can speed up the cooking process. When we cook, add a little salt to the oil pan in advance. In this way, we can also avoid sticking to the pan. This is all  Some little kitchen tips.  I hope that the author can share with you some knowledge points that you can verify for yourself when you cook. A good dish is equal to the happiness factor of the family. There is a saying: If you want to win someone's heart, just  First get a person's taste and grasp the taste, and your successful family management will add a lot of points.  A family needs two people to run it, life comes from experience, food comes from details, find details from experience, I believe that a family will be more happy and happy.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
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