In the long history, the old sauce of the ancient capital has been handed down from generation to generation. What are the essence and characteristics of sauce making for thousands of years?

China sauce culture has a long history and ancient charm. This is what I feel after tasting the old sauce of the ancient capital.

Wuhan Chen, a playwright in the Yuan Dynasty, wrote in the first compromise of Yuhuchun: "There are seven things to get up in the morning: firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea." After word of mouth, sauce has become one of the "seven things at home". When I was a child, I witnessed my mother's homemade sauce, and now I still like to eat it, especially the old sauce.

Unlike wine, sauce is not forgotten by ordinary people and is relished by literati. Throughout the ages, there have been many poems with the word "wine" as the word: "If you want to drink pipa, you should urge it immediately." "Excuse me, where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. " "I advise you to drink more wine, there is no reason to go out to the west." "Knowing a bottle of wine on the lake far away, you can remember the people in Wan Li." ..... Even people who don't know a few words know such brave words as "hundreds of poems by Li Bai about fighting for wine", "Good wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley", "A thousand cups are few when you meet your bosom friend" and "It's more worrying to drown your sorrows by drinking". On the other hand, there are few poems with sauce. In the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei's "Sugarcane [zhè] pulp [gū] rice, sunflower soup with glutinous sauce"; Du Fu's "Share my juice [zǐ] with [jiè] and make it worse [zāo], and help me with the jar sauce [xié]"; Yan Zhenqing's "Radish [wú yí] eats soy sauce vinegar and boiled sunflower, while sewing boots with wax thread and drawing cones with oil [zhuΡ]" is probably a famous article.

The brewing of sauce began in the Western Han Dynasty. As early as the Han dynasty, there was a word "sauce, mixed with beans". At the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty (533-544 AD), it was written in the Book of Qi Yao Min, and there were also records about making sauce. Everything is developing and changing. In the long history, the technology of making sauce is not static. The old sauce in the ancient capital was excavated and supervised by Luoyang Cultural Industry Promotion Association, which allowed the sauce culture to continue. The new fragrance of peony and the old sauce flavor of ancient capital and the book Four Seasons in the late Tang Dynasty recorded the new changes in the production technology of old sauce after Qi Yao Min Shu. Until the Yuan Dynasty, Lu Mingshan, an outstanding agronomist, made a detailed record of the technology of making old sauce in Agriculture, Mulberry and Food.

"How to solve the problem, only Du Kang." According to historical records, Du Kang is recognized as the ancestor of brewing.

Sauce is different from wine. Although it has a longer history and Fan Li is the ancestor of sauce, few people know about it.

Fan Li (536 BC-448 BC) was a famous politician, strategist and economist in the late Spring and Autumn Period. China, an early business theorist, was honored by later generations as one of the "Sages of Business" and "Five Sages of Nanyang".

In 536 BC, Fan Li was born in Sanhuyi, Wandi (Nanyang, Henan). Although he was born in poverty, he was well-read and versatile. Fan Li's image as a businessman who worked hard all his life, was good at managing and managing money, made money three times, was able to distribute wealth to help the poor and was indifferent to fame and fortune, and his great influence on business thought and theory. After his death, Fan Li was gradually called by later generations as the commercial saint and the commercial ancestor God of Wealth, and many businessmen dedicated his statues and portraits.

According to legend, in 529 BC, he entered the palace at the age of 17, and was (a man, surnamed Ji, whose name was Jin, a word, born in Luoyi, his son). At that time, due to continuous rain, the valley and Rolle were flooded, endangering the palace. Leftovers in the palace kitchen will turn sour or deteriorate over time. In order to advocate frugality, Fan Li put these foods in the storeroom. Ferment naturally for a long time, dry fry, add some warm water and stir into a paste. Once, Ji Jin and Fan Li played together and mixed some "paste" into noodles. I never thought noodles were delicious. After Fan Li ate it, he got to the bottom of it, and Ji Jin told the whole story. Inspired by this, Fan Li made a delicious sauce from this sour fermented food.

The origin of the name of sauce. Liu Bang (256 BC-BC 195) was the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, one of the great pioneers of the Han nationality and culture, and an outstanding politician, strategist and conductor in the history of China.

According to Records of Historical Records Biography of Huaiyin Hou, the above question says, "Like me, can I learn geometry?" The letter said, "Your Majesty can only pay 100,000 yuan." He said, "What about Jun?" Say, "The bigger the officer, the better the ears." He smiled and said, "The more the better. What does my bird have to eat?" The letter said: "Your Majesty can't be a general, he can only be a good general. That's why this letter is for your majesty. " The "general" here in Han Xin is good at using and commanding generals. Since the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang has been regarded as the ancestor and teacher of the sauce garden because of the homonym of "general" and "sauce flavor". Sauce, so compared with "sauce", in addition to homophonic, in the ancient condiments such as salt, plum, acyl, sugar [xi ā n h m 4 i], sauce is dominant. The ancients said: "Sauce master, every taste will also. Handsome and delicious. " The Analects of Confucius also said: "It's not that you don't eat sauce." Life practice shows that sauce, like a general fighting violence and evil, can inhibit the poisoning of all kinds of food. The name "sauce" was born.

In the continuation of the old sauce culture in the ancient capital, there are still some physical objects that seem ugly, but they are "solidified" sauce culture. For example, the cylinder filling process. In China, pottery has a long history. Archaeological findings show that as early as seven or eight thousand years ago, pottery products were produced and used on a large scale in northern and southern China. Pottery products are easy to use and durable. If you are not careful, they will crack or break. As the saying goes, "the new cylinder is not as bright as the old one." Therefore, the cylinder filling line is derived. I collected five pottery pots from nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine in Sancai Town, Ai He, the birthplace of Hutuluo, which made me unforgettable and left a deep impression. In the hands of skilled cylinder mending masters, cylinder mending is like mending clothes. You can fix them at will. Not only are the techniques different, but even the "patching" can be "handy"-using the fragments of cylinder A to fill the hole in cylinder B, to make up the level and culture.

Miss the hometown flavor-the old sauce of the ancient capital

Good Luoyang people have old sauce in the ancient capital.

The best ingredients in the world melt into a jar of sauce.

Peony smells new, and the old ancient capital smells old.

Maotai-flavor style is natural and extraordinary.

Luo Zhifang took sauce culture as a historical and cultural event and crossed just visiting when exploring and excavating the old sauce technology in the ancient capital. Interpreting the origin of sauce culture, we can also understand the hardships of sauce development and feel the significance of sauce culture inheritance. From this, we can draw a conclusion: the seemingly ordinary sauce, which few people recite, is the crystallization of profound cultural accumulation and the wisdom of ancestors.

Chinese people should be confident and domestic products should be self-reliant!

We have a profound and excellent traditional culture. It can "enhance the backbone and confidence of China people", is our deepest cultural soft power, is the mother of our cultural development, and accumulates the deepest spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation. The traditional culture of China has a history of more than 360 years. In the past, we actively studied the advanced achievements of western culture, which in turn damaged the modernization process of our national traditional culture.

The culture of the Chinese nation should go abroad, let the culture speak for itself, and make it a medium for peaceful exchanges between different languages, different regions and different countries.