In which dynasty did the earliest dim sum appear?

Snacks are foods such as cakes. According to legend, a general in the Eastern Jin Dynasty was deeply moved to see his soldiers fighting bloody battles day and night, heroically killing the enemy and repeatedly making meritorious deeds. He immediately ordered people to bake delicious cakes and sent people to the front to comfort the soldiers as a symbol of "a little affection". Since then, the name "dim sum" has spread and continues to this day.

Tang and song dynasties

The name of "dim sum" is recorded in relevant cooking materials. For example, Wu Zeng, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote a passage in "Notes on Nengzhizhai":

Secular cases take breakfast snacks as snacks, which have been said since the Tang Dynasty. After Zheng, an official of the Tang Dynasty, stayed in Jianghuai, his family prepared his wife's breakfast, and his wife Gu said, "I haven't finished putting on makeup yet, so I can eat snacks." Wu Zeng and Liang Hongyu were in the same era, and his works were written in the twenty-four to twenty-seven years of Emperor Gaozong Shaoxing. They are well-founded and should be fully believed.

Ching Dynasty

Qing Gu Zhang Si's Tu Feng Lu, Volume 6, the article "Dim Sum" says: Dim Sum is called Dim Sum, see Wu Zengman Lu. After Tang Zheng stayed in Jianghuai, his family prepared breakfast for his wife. The wife said that his brother said, "I haven't finished my makeup yet, so I can have a snack." As can be seen from the text, dim sum also refers to breakfast in ancient times.

The same book also quoted Hui Zhou's "North Garden Record" as saying: "After washing persimmons, dessert has arrived." Later, it was explained that dim sum is steamed bread, wonton, steamed stuffed bun and so on. It was named in the Tang Dynasty.

As for a person who eats tea, according to local records: "Dry snacks are called tea eaters. See Yu's "Daikin Guozhi":' Fu worships the door ahead of time, writes three lines of wine, drinks big soft fat and small soft fat, such as Chinese coolers and honey cakes, and people drink tea. ""Saqima.

Traditional dim sum editor

China's traditional dim sum is generally the most common "eight big pieces" and "eight small pieces".

Eight big pieces

Also known as northern cakes, represented by Beijing area. Beijing-style cakes, with a long history, various categories and different tastes, are characterized by heavy oil and light sugar, softness, pure sweetness and saltiness. Representative varieties include Beijing Bakuai, red and white moon cakes and so on. Among them, Beijing eight tablets are divided into big eight tablets, small eight tablets and refined eight tablets. Eight pieces are made of eight kinds of fillings, such as hawthorn, rose, green plum, white sugar, red bean paste, jujube paste, salt and pepper, raisins, etc. , wrapped in cooking oil, carefully baked to make various patterns of impressions. Shapes are kidney-shaped, drum-shaped, bergamot-shaped, bat-shaped, peach-shaped and pomegranate-shaped. Crispy and delicious, with pure fragrance. Specially made eight pieces, the fine layer is even, the filling is soft and sandy, and the fruit is pure and thick. There are also eight shapes, such as Sanxian, Silver Ingot, Osmanthus fragrans, Fushou, Fugui and Shoutao, which are the fine products in Beijing-style cakes.

Eight small pieces

In the old days, Beijingers should bring gifts when visiting relatives and friends, and pay attention to giving "eight Beijing pieces", namely "big eight pieces" and "small eight pieces". This was originally an essential gift and decoration for the wedding and funeral ceremony and daily life of the royal family in the Qing Dynasty. Later, the formula was spread from the royal chef to the people. Its main ingredients are refined white flour, sugar, lard, honey and various fruit seeds. The so-called "eight pieces", that is, eight kinds of snacks, generally have sesame cakes, jujube flowers, crispy rolls, and some are engraved with different words such as blessing, luck, longevity and happiness. There are round, peach, square and so on. They are packed in a rectangular cardboard box. "Small eight pieces" in duplicate, sixteen pieces packed in a carton. In the past, when my daughter went back to her parents' home to pay a New Year call to her elders, I always went to the pastry shop to buy a box of eight big ones in my hand, which was generous and beautiful.

The big eight pieces are generally eight pieces a catty, and the small eight pieces are generally eight pieces a catty.

Eight big pieces and eight small pieces. A catty of eight different kinds of cakes is called "Daba", which is generally the most suitable for giving gifts. Small eight pieces are also eight varieties, and sixteen small pieces are divided into one catty. As a gift, eight pieces are the main ones, with high quality. The names of eight different cakes are as follows: 1. Rice cat cake, 2. Big roll of cake, 3. Big cake, 4. Butterfly paper, 5. Picture cake, 6. Chicken oil cake, 7. Zhuangyuan cake, 8. Seven stars, Dianzi. The small eight pieces are one size smaller than the big eight pieces: one, fruit pie, two, small roll crisp, three, DOG crisp, four, chicken oil cake, five, small screw crisp, six, salted preserves, seven, jujube flowers, eight, pit noodles. The last four are the most popular among children. Especially jujube flowers, twisted into petals with jujube paste, are very beautiful.

North-south difference

From the literature, dim sum and tea are different in nature, but they have long been confused.

North-South "Dim Sum"

According to the survey, the history of dim sum in the north is ancient, while that in the south is new. The ancients may still have the legacy of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the new one is only in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. There are two commonly used words on the signboard of the snack shop, and I want to borrow them here. It seems quite appropriate. The north can be called "official tea" and the south is "fine lake". -Zhou Zuoren's "North and South Dim Sum"