Leisure little landlord

Chapter 413 The Essence of Food Culture

To say that the fish feast is one of the major delicacies in China. The Manchu Banquet has been famous in China since ancient times. Chinese cuisine is also rich and varied. Here, the author believes that it is necessary to talk about some cultures in terms of cuisine.

The dietary status and dietary customs of various ethnic groups and classes in the Chinese nation over the past 5000 years.The introduction is "Food is the most important thing for the people", and eating is the primary means to achieve the goal of survival.Therefore, when life is born, the activity of eating begins, but the activity of eating has no utensils in its initial stage.Before learning how to use fire, what humans eat and how they eat are no different from those in the animal kingdom, that is, they directly eat plant fruits and animal flesh and blood.This stage is called the primitive raw food stage.After mastering the use of fire, people first put the food on the fire and grill it before eating it.Or heat the stone and then bake the food on the stone and eat it, thus entering the stage of primitive cooked food.

China is an ancient civilization with a history of 5000 years, and its food culture and cooking skills are part of its history of civilization.It is the crystallization of Chinese splendid culture.China has a vast territory and diverse climates, including tropical, subtropical, temperate and subarctic zones; various terrains, rivers, lakes, mountains, plains, all of which are prepared, which provides different types and qualities of Chinese food and cooking. Rich animal and plant raw materials and seasonings such as fish, meat, poultry and eggs, delicacies from mountains and seas, melons, fruits and vegetables.For thousands of years, Chinese food has accumulated superb cooking skills. The cooking methods include: roasting, frying, roasting, stewing, simmering, steaming, sautéing, sautéing, smoking, stewing, frying, simmering, pasting, steaming, etc. Hundreds of kinds, thus forming a wide variety of cuisines and varieties with different flavors.According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 1 kinds of dishes in the country.There are more than 120 kinds of hot and cold dishes on this table alone of the famous Qing court banquet dish "Man-Han Banquet".The Chinese food culture represented by this big dish shows the gorgeous and magnificent mentality of "Heavenly Dynasty" and "Emperor", and shows the general characteristics of Chinese traditional culture.

Chinese dishes are famous all over the world for their colorful, fragrant, delicious and beautiful shapes.Its shape is beautiful.Especially the fancy cold platter is the most prominent.It is unique in shape, colorful and lifelike, presenting artistic scenery and patterns.The mountains, rivers, trees, pavilions, pavilions, flowers, birds, fish and insects, rare birds and animals are all on the list.It seems to be a beautiful picture, giving people enjoyment.Moreover, each set of Chinese food is based on an even number, and 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 shows the Chinese culture's emphasis on "perfection" and the psychological habit of focusing on even numbers for profit.

China is a country of rich and powerful nationalities. In addition, there are 56 kinds of cuisines for 56 nationalities.And among these 56 kinds of cuisines, many local specialties can be distinguished. If we divide them carefully, there are countless kinds of dishes, and there are countless kinds of flavors, forming a world of gourmets with Chinese characteristics.

everybody knows.Food swirls Chinese food and Western food, then.The names of our Chinese dishes are also unique.It is full of Chinese traditional cultural characteristics and gives people a good aftertaste.Such as playing dragons and pearls, Yangchun Baixue, silver bead peonies, golden jade encircling emerald greens, picking peaches with jade hands, offering fish at palace gates, etc., there are all kinds of them.It is full of poetic and picturesque, sometimes it is a three-dimensional poem with painting.In China, you can say where you go and where you eat.There are restaurants, restaurants, restaurants and food stalls all over the country.Especially large and medium cities.In just one place, you can taste food flavors from all over the north and south, famous meat and vegetable dishes, dim sum, noodle porridge.Seasonal snacks.Even in foreign countries, there are many Chinese restaurants, almost all over the world.And these Chinese restaurants are often full of guests, overwhelmed, business is very prosperous.In the United States, there are surprisingly many Chinese restaurants.In the city of New York alone, there are more than [-].

China has a vast territory and is the nation that attaches the 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, due to the selection of different raw materials, different ingredients, and different cooking methods, various places have formed their own unique flavors and different cuisines.Among them, the more famous eight major cuisines refer to Sichuan, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Hunan, Fujian, Hui, Zhejiang, Lu and so on.

The so-called "relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to eat water". "One side's water and soil support one side's people" is about adaptation.China has a vast territory with vastly different natural conditions.The 56 ethnic groups living on the land of China have formed their own distinctive and rich dietary customs in different natural environments.For example, the Mongolian, Tibetan, Kazak and other herdsmen living on the prairie eat meat and drink milk; the Hezhen people live in the Sanjiang water town of Heilongjiang, and fish is the main food; while the Oroqen people living in the dense forest of Xing’an Mountains eat birds. Animal meat... This is an unchangeable eating pattern in the era of underdeveloped transportation.The south is suitable for growing rice, so people in the south generally eat rice as the staple food; there are many kinds of wheat and miscellaneous grains in the north, so the people in the north mainly eat noodles and miscellaneous grains;Shuxiang has heavy humidity, and people eat spicy food more; Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hunan, Guizhou and many mountainous areas, either because of the soil and water system, or because of the long-term salt shortage in history, people like to eat sour... These local characteristics in diet It makes the Chinese food culture show a colorful situation.

Chinese food literature and art, the relationship between food and the state of life, etc., are profound and extensive.

From the perspective of extension, Chinese food culture can be classified from multiple perspectives such as age and technique, region and economy, ethnicity and religion, food and utensils, consumption and level, folklore and function, showing different cultural tastes and reflecting different cultures. The use value is colorful.

In terms of characteristics, Chinese food culture highlights the theory of nutrition and health (mainly vegetarian food, emphasizing medicinal food and tonic), and pays attention to "color, aroma, and taste".The realm theory of harmony of five flavors (distinct flavor, palatable to those who appreciate it, known as "tongue dish"), the cooking method of strange and positive changes (cooking rules are based on the principle of flexibility), and the concept of delicious food (gentle, elegant, and elegant) The 4 major attributes, such as teaching in food, have 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 taste produced by the dining atmosphere. It is the personality and tradition of the Chinese nation, and it is also a prominent way of the traditional etiquette of the Chinese nation.

In terms 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 food, 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 wide field of vision, deep levels, multiple angles, and high taste; it is the development of food sources, development of tableware, Create, accumulate and influence the material wealth and spiritual wealth of neighboring countries and the world in terms of food conditioning, nutrition and health care, and dietary aesthetics.

During the formation period of Chinese food culture, grains and vegetables were the staple food.During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were basically self-produced grains and vegetables, but the structure was different from the present. At that time, the main field operations in the field were: millet, (the most important) was millet, also known as millet, which dominated for a long time and was the longest of the five grains. , A good Ji is called Liangzhi Boutique, also known as Huangliang.Millet is rhubarb sticky rice second only to millet, also known as millet, which is threshed millet.Wheat, barley.Shu is beans, mainly soybeans and black beans at that time.Hemp, that is, pockmarked.Shu and hemp are eaten by poor people, and hemp is also called ju.There is also rice in the south. The ancient rice was glutinous rice, and the ordinary rice was called japonica rice. After the Zhou Dynasty, the Central Plains began to introduce rice. It is a fine grain and is more precious.Wild rice is the seed of a kind of aquatic plant Zizania zizania. It is black in color and is called Diao Hu rice.

For Chinese food culture, especially some food that we have never heard of that seem to be very ugly, they all show the characteristics of a place, especially in movies, we see people who travel around the world, and they show me themselves Some of the delicacies that I personally tasted in the photos are rare in a hundred years. The author also likes food, and I also like to study food. Two people cook the same food with the same ingredients and use the same seasoning. The taste is also very different, which is the size of the heat used by the two people.

In addition, it also includes which ingredients or which seasonings are put first and which are closely related to the rear. For example, when we stir-fry a plate of pork, if we add vinegar directly when stir-frying, then this dish must be It is very tough. If you add a little water and some vinegar to the dishes properly, the diluted vinegar will actually make the meat tender.

The author is telling you a little trick. When we want to boil a pot of cold water, it usually takes about 10 minutes. If we add a little salt to the cold water, then the water that can be boiled in 10 minutes will be advanced in advance. It takes 5 to 8 minutes. This is because salt has the effect of absorbing heat and can speed up the speed. When we are cooking, add a little salt to the oil pan in advance. In this way, the phenomenon of sticking to the pan can be avoided. This is all Some little kitchen knowledge.

I hope that some of the knowledge points shared by the author can be verified by yourself when you usually cook by yourself. A good dish is equal to the happiness factor of the family. There is a saying: If you want to win someone’s heart, you must Get a person's taste first, 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, and food comes from details. Find details from experience. I believe a family will be more happy and happy. (To be continued..)

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