Food is the most important thing for the people, and since ancient times, literati and ink masters have been so talented and eloquent that they have written beautiful poems that can be immortalized for ages; so when a poet encounters food, what kind of interesting things will happen and what kind of wonderful poems will be left behind?
Su Dongpo's poems in the food story:
Su Dongpo is not only a famous literati scholar, but also a famous gourmet; so there are a lot of rumors and he has a direct relationship with the famous food, with his name more dishes, such as "Dongpo elbow", "Dongpo tofu", "Dongpo leg", "Dongpo cake", "Dongpo pastry", "Dongpo meat" and so on. Dongpo set", "Shu people expensive celery buds chopped, mixed turtledove meat for the". Spring turtledove chopped, is the celery fried turtledove breast silk. Later called Dongpo spring turtledove.
Su Shi is like mutton soup, for which he wrote: "Qin cooking but sheep soup, Longzhuan bear wax".
He also wrote a special "Ode to Pork": "net wash pan, less water, fomentation of smoke on the wood, the flame does not work. To wait for him to cook himself and do not rush him, when the fire is enough he is beautiful. Huangzhou good pork, cheap as dirt. The rich won't eat it, and the poor don't know how to cook it. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do with it, but I'm sure I'll be able to do with it.
This is the origin of Dongpo meat, until now, this is also a very favorite dish.
In addition, Su Dongpo also likes to use bamboo shoots and pork to cook together, make "bamboo shoots stewed meat" food; in a food party, Su Dongpo wrote a limerick: "no bamboo is vulgar, no meat makes people thin, not vulgar and not thin, bamboo shoots stewed pork ".
The tasty but poisonous blowfish also became a delicacy on his table,
"Three or two branches of peach blossoms outside the bamboo, the ducks in the spring river water are the first to know. Artemisia vulgaris is full of reed buds short, it is the time when the puffer fish wants to go up."
This freewheeling seven-character stanza about bamboo shoots, fat ducks, wild vegetables, and puffer fish in spring is truly a sentence of food.
"In the fall, frost and dew filled the garden east, rutabagas gave birth to children and mustard gave birth to grandchildren. I and He hate the same satiety, I do not know why it is bitter to eat chicken and dolphin." In his opinion, these vegetables are more flavorful than that chicken, duck and fish.
Feng Lake is Su Dongpo's favorite picnic place, he will be here on the lake side of the growing vine compared to the West Lake in Hangzhou, Brasenia schreberi: "Feng Lake has vine, seems to rival the Brasenia schreberi soup".
Su Dongpo ate an old woman to do the ring cake, could not help but inscribe a poem: "The delicate hand rubbed to the jade color uniform, blue oil fried tender yellow deep. Night to spring sleep to know the weight, flatten the good people wrapped arm gold." A few 28 words, sketched out the ring cake uniform fine, color fresh, crispy features and shape like the image of the beauty of the ring bracelet.
Lu You's "Nine Miles" Poem and Sprinkles:
"Nine Miles" by Lu You
Dawn with the saddle wildly excited, the heron flew first I passed the village east.
The green needles of rice are floating in the water, and the reddish-red snow is dancing in the wind.
The strangers are laughing and talking, and the rice cakes and cakes are red and green on the head.
Who knows that the old man Pei Hui intention, absolutely love the mountains across the pale mist.
"The strangers were laughing on the swing, and the cakes of rice flour were clustered on the head of the load."
Among them, Lu You said, "Cluster green and red", which means that people also put part of the sugar ring also added flowers and rice red dyed into a nice red color to show that the festivities.
Cooking cabbage in Song lyrics:
Zhou Dunru, a famous Song Dynasty lyricist, wrote in his "The Way of the Morning": "I planted my own cabbages in the beds, and pickled them into urns of finely chopped yellow cabbage (pronounced jī, meaning sauerkraut). The fat onions are finely dotted, the fragrant oil is slowly stir-fried, and the soup cake is like silk. A cup in the morning and evening will do no harm, and the immortals will not be fooled by the nine revolutions." This is a picture depicting self-gratification in one's own vegetable garden, which is joyful and desirable.
Shunyi and knife-shaved noodles:
Folklore, there are jingo describing "a leaf falling pot, a leaf floating, a leaf away from the face and out of the knife. The silverfish fell into the water and turned white waves, the willow leaves ride the wind down the treetops."
Sour Plum Soup
Dumen Bamboo Poem and Sour Plum Soup:
Hao Yixing in the Qing Dynasty wrote Dumen Bamboo Poem, which reads, "The bottom of the water leads to the goblet, and the summer to the Yanshan natural coolness; the copper bowl sound street call, an ou of icy water and plum soup".
The Old Beijinger was a man of the past.
The old Beijingers in their childhood often heard the hand knocking the crisp sound of ice, that is, selling ice plum soup in the streets. In the hot summer drink a bowl, "through the heart and teeth, such as manna sprinkled heart general".
Donkey rolls
Donkey rolls in the limerick:
Donkey rolls are a traditional Beijing snack, made of bean flour, glutinous rice flour, and brown sugar bean paste filling;
"Yandu snacks miscellany of chanting" describes this tasty snack this way: "brown sugar water filling skillfully arranged. The yellow noodles are buried in the beans. Why is the group called 'donkey roll', the name is not nearly as witty."
Crystal meat
Boiled dried silk and crystal meat in "Looking at the South of the Yangtze River":
When it comes to Yangzhou, in addition to the legendary scenery of the 24 bridges on a bright moonlit night, there are also Yangzhou chefs are proud of the great show of knife skills of the Boiled Dried Siliver, which is the process of chopping the dried beans into slices and then cutting them into shreds to test the patience and meticulousness of the human being. As the saying goes, "Yangzhou people go to the teahouse in the morning to have tea and a bowl of boiled dried silk".
"Looking at the South River" wrote: "Yangzhou is good, the tea house guests can be invited. The tea house is a great place to invite guests, with a thousand piles of thin strands of material, cooked copper tobacco bag lying on a long seedling, and crystal dishes of burnt wine."
This song is a reflection of the daily life of Yangzhou people.
In addition to food, tea is often included in poems, such as Su Shi's love of tea, his poems are also common praise for tea, tea plantations;
"White Cloud Peak under the two flags of the new, greasy green, long fresh valley rain spring" describes the scenery of the tea plantations in the hills outside of Hangzhou; ".... Never good tea like a good person", but also with another poem in the "West Lake than the West Side" was edited by people into a tea house tea shop couplets.
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