Eating raw seafood is very common in Japan, but why do Japanese people call it "sashimi"?

Sashimi, actually from Japan, refers to eating fresh sea fish raw and later becoming a Japanese specialty food. As for why raw seafood is called sashimi, it is said that when Japanese fishermen provide sashimi, it is difficult to distinguish the peeled fish species, so they came up with a method of stabbing bamboo sticks on the skin of each fish, so it is called sashimi.

In fact, when it comes to sashimi, it is very similar to China's early cooking technique "Yi", so many people say that Japanese sashimi is modeled after China's technique.

"Yong" means eating fish raw. According to relevant historical documents, the saying of eating fish raw appeared in China as early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, which has been passed down to this day, but it is now called "eating fish raw" in China, which is popular in Guangxi, Guangdong and other places.

So in fact, there is another saying. In order to distinguish the way of "fish", Japan first named the local production method "individual", which means the cut fish body. But later people thought that "person" and "abdominal incision" were very similar and unlucky, so they replaced them with "thorn" with similar meaning.

Presumably, many people know that if a large plate of raw seafood is put in the eyes of many people in China, some people will feel scared after reading it. This way of eating raw seafood is very common in Japan, but the Japanese call it "sashimi". Then why is raw seafood called sashimi? Is there a kind of fish called sashimi? Actually, it's not. "Sashimi" is just a name.

Many people don't understand why eating raw seafood sounds so good in Japanese mouth. In fact, the statement of sashimi is that in the past, when fishermen in Hokkaido, Japan served sashimi, because it was not easy to distinguish the types of peeled fillets, they often took some fish skins and stabbed them with bamboo sticks for easy identification. This kind of bamboo stick and fish skin stuck on the fish fillet was originally called' sashimi', but the name' sashimi' has remained, although this method is no longer used. So the sashimi cuisine we are hearing now actually means sashimi. Sashimi refers to fish, raw fish, sashimi and so on. Fresh fish and shellfish are eaten raw, sliced and dipped in sauce to eat delicious.