Fruit, drink, snacks, the ancients also love snacks, why the Song dynasty snacks are loved by all the people?

The Song Dynasty was an era of high cultural and economic prosperity, in which the people of the Song Dynasty lived in peace and enjoyed life, which naturally contributed to the development of the entertainment and food industry. Until now we can still see the rich and diverse food culture of the Song people and the interesting world of the Song Dynasty in the novels written by the Song people, which has become the most intuitive testimony to the culture of the Song Dynasty.

One, a wide range of flavorful snacks

Song Dynasty snacks is characterized by a variety of exquisite, regardless of whether the thing is ordinary, it is necessary to dress it up enough to attract people's eyes. Not only did people in the Song Dynasty love to dress up themselves, they were also very attentive to the decoration of food. There are many records in Tokyo Meng Hua Lu? The Tokyo Dreaming Book records a lot of and? The "Tokyo Meng Hua Lu" records a lot of food and food decorations.

It is a way of decorating food with flowers and other things, and it is a way of placing food on various kinds of dolls or carving ingredients into the shapes of lifelike animals, which is the most popular way of attracting children's attention.

The Song dynasty produced a wide variety of food, so there must be a variety of stores in the city center, "Dream sorghum record" in the? Noodle stores? The "Dream Sorghum Record", the "Noodle Shop", the? The "Dream Sorghum Record" in the "Noodle Shop", "Tea Shop", "Tea Shop" and "Meat Shop". The first is the "Meat and Vegetables from the Food Shop", which is a restaurant that serves meat and vegetables. And in the movie The Old Story of Wulin, there is also the City Food. The city's food is listed in The Old Story of Wulin.


These are all examples of food that was widely available on the market at the time.

Wu Zeng of the Southern Song Dynasty wrote in Nengkai Zhai Manlu that the Chinese government was not willing to accept the idea of "dim sum". A category:? The world is used to morning snacks as dim sum. This article alone will be able to see that the dim sum in the Song Dynasty contains a wide range of steamed buns, buns are among them.

In the Song Dynasty, pasta was one of the more favorite foods. Whenever there was a festival, people in the Song Dynasty would eat noodles to celebrate the festival, which became one of the customs of the time. Therefore, stores specializing in noodle dishes were very particular about the type of food they made. The noodle stores in Lin'an had a variety of noodles to choose from, such as silk chicken noodles, pig and sheep noodles, and raw noodles. It is clear from these dazzling names that the Song people were extremely particular about their cuisine.

Two, rigorous production and storage

1, superior quality skills

Tokyo Monogatari? The food and fruits? The type of store is even more everywhere, the Song Dynasty stores selling fruits and melons are called fruit rows. Tokyo Dreaming Records:? On the west street of Qiaotou in Zhou, there is a fruit shop. In addition to selling large quantities of fresh fruits, fruit stores would also sell dried fruits produced in various places, and these fruit stores were located all over the streets and alleys, which were very popular among the Song people. And the Song people were even more knowledgeable about how to make dried fruit snacks.

Song Lin Hong in his Shanjia Qingsui recorded after the rain washed the fruit production before how to remove the detailed method of insects, ? The fruit was soaked in a bowl of water for a long time, and all the worms came out, and then it was ready to be eaten. It is obvious that the Song people spent a lot of effort on the production of snacks.

Yang Chengzhai's article also mentions: ? Song Dynasty people in the production of snacks can be said to be a lot of experience, the Song Dynasty snacks are so popular, it is because people in the production method of skillful, sophisticated to make the Song Dynasty appeared a variety of fruits, snacks, driven by the people for the love of food, prompting the Song Dynasty snacks industry more and more prosperous.

2, focusing on the freshness of the snacks

In addition to the wide variety of snacks, the production of superb, the Song Dynasty on the storage of food preservation is also very good, the food will be sealed and hidden in the ice or put into the cellar are more common food storage methods. In addition, most of the stores selling food in the Song Dynasty were equipped with ice cellars, which made it easy for customers to eat fresh and tasty food in the summer.

Additionally, there were shops that specialized in frozen drinks, and the Tokyo Dreaming Book mentions that Song people could eat cold drinks like icy lychee cream and sugar ice and snow even in the summer, and that ? Only the old Song door outside the two most abundant.? Indicates that cold drinks were also extremely popular at that time.

Drink stores in the Song Dynasty capital were also located everywhere, and in the Qingming Shanghe Tu you can see the likes of ? Drinks? The summer drink shops were everywhere. Drink stores were everywhere.

Tokyo Meng Hua Records also recorded several common drinks in the Song Dynasty: dozens of drinks, such as sweet bean sugar and bean water. It can be seen that people in the Song Dynasty were indeed very good at enjoying life, people's love for all kinds of snacks, but also make the Song Dynasty snacks more colorful.

The variety of varieties does not affect the quality of the guarantee, the pursuit of the quality of the snacks, prompted the Song people for the production of food and placed quite carefully. Dream sorghum record" recorded: ? Where the diet of rare flavor, when the new rice, strange fine vegetables, product pieces are not missing? The people of the Monk and Sorghum Records recorded that: ? The price is increased to pay for it, not to compare its value, but to enjoy the new ear?

The freshness of the ingredients is what diners value most. The street eateries are notoriously sloppy about the cleanliness and hygiene of their food. Tokyo Meng Hua Lu has a record of the situation of the tuck stores in the Song Dynasty capital city: ? All the hundreds of people who sell food and drink, loaded with fresh and clean plates and boxes and utensils, food and flavor and soup, do not dare to sketch?

At that time, Lin'an, which is now Hangzhou, was also very concerned about the health and appearance of the snacks, and "Mengliang Records" has? Where the department store to sell food and drink people, more decorative car cover tandem, plate box utensils new clean and exquisite. It can be seen that the Song Dynasty people not only love life, for the quality of snacks is also strict control.

It is also because the Song Dynasty stores are very responsible for their sales of food and drink, both in the quality of protection, but also to ensure that the reputation of the snack store, so people in the Song Dynasty will be so much love these snacks.

Three, a high degree of cultural freedom

1, do not leave home to enjoy the food

The rapid development of the food industry in the Song Dynasty made people's lives more convenient. The convenience of eating in the Song Dynasty was documented in the Tokyo Dreaming Records. Each tea house hotel, hook restaurant diet. The city wells brokerage house, often only in the city store rotary buy food and drink, do not have home vegetables.

The Song Dynasty's economic exchanges were free, and people's daily activities were not restricted, and snack stores could be found everywhere along the roadside, and there were vendors selling snacks at the end of the streets and alleys, and customers were free to choose whether to eat directly in the store or to take away. This model is no different from our current life.

People had a lot of choices for food, and there were many stores, tea houses, and eateries that were good places to enjoy snacks. And in the Song Dynasty there were already take-out workers similar to those nowadays, which were called ? idle man? , who could deliver what they needed for their customers, very conveniently.

These people were depicted in the Song dynasty novel Zheng Jieji Ligong Shenwu Gong (Zheng Jieji Ligong Shenwu Gong): ? An idle man, a basket, a knife, a few pieces of beef, delivered to the customer, cut in front of him.? This was already taken for granted in the Song Dynasty. Customers were able to taste the food they wanted without leaving their homes.

The Song Dynasty already had a very modernized business model at that time, and this convenience made it easier for Song people to experience the quickness of shopping, and thus be more interested in the snacks, and thus buy a steady stream of snacks. Promoting the rapid development of the food industry also led to the steady improvement of the Song economy.

2, distinctive local cuisine

In the Northern Song Dynasty, the region is vast, the northern and southern regions spanning a large, so the merchants and travelers to and from the north is also a continuous stream, in order to meet the taste needs of these guests from different places, it has given rise to the distinctive local cuisine. In the Song capital, local flavor restaurants with southern and northern dishes were also common.

Tokyo Meng Hua Lu recorded: ? The east gate street of the temple is full of books and turban. South of the temple is the Recorder's Alley brothel. North is the small sweet water alley, the alley south food store is very prosperous.? Detailed description of the different directions of the stores have a clear geographical distinction, convenient for guests coming from the south.

Similarly? North food is the alum building in front of Li Sijia, Duanjia Furnace, Shi Feng Ba Zi; South food is the temple bridge Jinjia, Jiuquzi Zhoujia, the most Qu. Explained in the Song Dynasty when the North and South diet has existed a distinctive style characteristics. It is because the Song Dynasty people attach great importance to the different points between the north and south food, there will be specialized in selling southern food, northern food such different flavors of the eatery.

Seeing that the socio-economic and cultural development of the time has reached a certain height, the people of the north and south of the close exchanges, in order to facilitate to the north of the southerners, and the establishment of a number of southern characteristics of the store, but also by the local people in the north of the popularity of the then extremely popular features.

In the southern region there are many rivers and lakes, and the diet of the southerners is mainly based on rice and aquatic products, like ? fish tuk-tuk, fried fish with rice? etc. are all favorites of southerners. And the north is mostly dry land with thin rainfall, so pasta and meat are the mainstay.

The most popular for northerners in the Song dynasty would have been mutton. Starting from Song Taizu, the Song emperors were extremely fond of mutton. Under the influence of the royal hobby, the development of the folk for mutton dishes was naturally highly valued.

In addition to the complex and varied mutton dishes in various stores, there are specialized stores selling mutton, and there are more than a dozen kinds of mutton based dishes alone, which fully satisfy the northern people's love for mutton. The full development and popularization of the northern and southern cuisines is enough to see that the Song people's seriousness about food and drink drove the market for snacks.

Song Dynasty people have such a perfect snack market, not only the food is available, the quality is also guaranteed, naturally attracted by these snacks. The rapid rise of the snack industry in the Song Dynasty could not be separated from the convenience of the Song Dynasty system, cultural prosperity and people's freedom **** with the promotion of the snack industry flourished.

Conclusion

The simplicity and freedom of the social atmosphere of the Song Dynasty created the Song people know how to enjoy life's habits, and the dazzling array of snack stores in the streets and alleys can also be seen in the Song people's seriousness about food. As the heyday of marketplace food, the Song Dynasty, with its policy of civilianization and developed commercial culture, made Song Dynasty snacks shine in this era. The love of food from the top to the bottom of the Song Dynasty also made Song Dynasty snacks reach an unprecedented prosperity.

References:

Tokyo Monhualu

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