Where is the specialty of Chinese hamburger?

Watermelon video's popular activity "Million Heroes" was searched for a topic. "Millions of Heroes" is a popular live answering program. There is a question in the program: Where is the special pasta "Chinese hamburger"? There are three options for the answer, namely Jiangsu, Shaanxi and Xinjiang. There is no doubt that this question is basically a sub-question-Chinese hamburger is of course a specialty of Shaanxi, but the organizer made a mistake in answering, and the system automatically judged that the option "Jiangsu" was the correct answer.

Tracing back to the source, where is the specialty of Chinese hamburger?

Jia Pingwa said that Shaanxi people admire wisdom, despise glibness, and are overall vigorous, without triviality and delicacy-this truth seems to be equally applicable to meat buns.

In fact, steamed bread with meat is "steamed bread with meat" and can also be understood as "steamed bread with meat". It consists of two kinds of food, one is Baiji steamed bread, which is a dough made of wheat flour, water and yeast. It tastes soft and delicious. Although the recipes are different, the basic methods are similar. The traditional way to make steamed bread is to bake it in an earthen stove, but now it is often fried in a pan.

The second kind is bacon. The meat inside is mainly minced pork, beef, mutton or chicken, which is stewed slowly and added with various seasonings, such as ginger, clove, tsaoko and star anise. The umami flavor of Chinese hamburger is mainly reflected by bacon, and the secret of delicious bacon lies in the soup.

As a famous food, when Chinese hamburger began is still inconclusive, and there are also theories from Zhou, Han and Tang dynasties. According to historical records, there was bacon in the Warring States period, which was called "cold meat" at that time. However, the eating method and production technology of steamed bread with meat should have started in the Tang Dynasty, which can be confirmed by various historical records and literature records.

There are many kinds of cakes in the Tang Dynasty, among which there are seven kinds recorded in Shi Ji, four kinds recorded in Shao Weiyan Shi Ji and nine kinds recorded in Youyang Zaji, all of which once prevailed in Guanzhong area and became the most popular staple food in the Tang Dynasty. Ren Yuan, a Japanese monk who went to the Tang Dynasty to seek dharma, witnessed the custom of offering cakes in the Tang Dynasty, indicating that cakes were the staple food of the Tang Dynasty.

In Chang 'an, Tang Dou, Hu cakes, steamed cakes, sesame cakes, cage cakes, soup cakes and pancakes are popular. Although there are different kinds of cakes, they are all real pasta. The question is: How do different kinds of cakes mix with other non-staple foods? At this time, Chinese hamburger came into being, which is inevitable, accidental and even legendary.

The earliest record of Chinese hamburger is Liu Xiang's "Sui and Tang Jiahua" in the Tang Dynasty: "Emperor Taizong told me to cut meat and wipe my hands with cakes. The emperor read it again and again, but the scholar pretended not to understand it. They even wipe it clean and spit it out. " Liu? ? He was a bachelor of Jixian Academy in Tang Dynasty and the son of Liu Zhiji, a historian of Tang Dynasty. Recording history should be true.

This event was also recorded by historians who compiled the Book of the New Tang Dynasty in the Song Dynasty. "Biography of Yu in the New Tang Dynasty" records: "I tried to cut the meat again and wiped my hands with cakes. The emperor even looked at me, and if Yang was unconscious, he might spit it out. " In both records, Emperor Taizong was present, chopping cooked meat and repeatedly wiping the fine meat foam on his hands with cakes to attract the attention of Emperor Taizong. When the emperor was confused and even unbearable, his anger was completely dispelled by Yu's action-he slowly ate the cake that was repeatedly used to wipe his hands! Yu He ate the cake, which dispelled the doubts of Emperor Taizong and attracted the attention of historians. It became a typical example to publicize the monarch's virtue and courtiers' understanding, and also provided a new way to eat Tang cake.

Save the minced meat on the hot cake, and finally eat it slowly under the gaze of the emperor. This process coincides with the method of making Chinese hamburger. This incident can be regarded as both a political allusion and a palace food allusion, and the palace food or life customs often have a great influence on the people. The dietary customs of upper-class society are easy to be accepted by the public and easy to form a role model effect. The combination of hot cakes and cooked meat, the organic combination of staple food and non-staple food, is rich in taste and simple to make. The way of eating Chinese hamburger soon spread among the people.

The loess plateau is dusty, the people in the northwest are simple and generous, and Chinese hamburger blooms everywhere in the northwest. In Shaanxi, Chinese hamburger is indispensable for meals. When tasting delicious gravy and chewing Baiji buns, don't forget that the hometown of Chinese hamburger is Shaanxi!