What kind of cuisine is sashimi?

Sashimi (sashimi) has always been regarded as a traditional Japanese food. Actually, it's not. This is an authentic Chinese dish.

In Japan, the raw materials of sashimi are generally tuna, salmon, snapper, flounder, bonito, spring fish, perch and so on. There are also freshwater fish such as carp and crucian carp. In ancient times, carp was the top grade of sashimi. Some octopus, squid, cuttlefish and whales are also common materials. There are several condiments for sashimi: soy sauce, wasabi paste, vinegar, Jiang Mo, radish paste and wine. In some places, bonito is eaten with a soy sauce mixed with mustard paste. When eating carp, crucian carp and catfish, put mustard seed paste, vinegar, Japanese yellow sauce and even pepper.

These are the raw materials and condiments of the so-called traditional Japanese food sashimi. In fact, this kind of sashimi is the ancient "fish soup" in China, which has a long history and can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty.

As early as the Zhou Dynasty, there were records of eating sashimi. Now unearthed bronze inscription "Xi Jia Pan" records: "In the fifth year of Zhou Xuanwang, Zhou Shi welcomed Peng Ya and returned home in triumph. General Yin Jifu held a private banquet for Zhong Zhang and other friends. The main course is roasted turtle with raw carp slices. " ; The Book of Rites records: "shepherd's purse is used in spring, shepherd's purse is used in autumn" and "the meat is tender"; The Analects of Confucius records: "Don't eat its sauce"; Hanshu: "Raw meat is delicious." . You may not be familiar with these records, but there is a well-known TV series "The Great Qin Empire". There is a small plot in this TV series, in which Zhang Yi sliced the carp with a sword. This is fish, and now it is sashimi.

During the Three Kingdoms period, everyone also liked to eat fish. Cao Zhi's "Famous Capital" said: "Tear carp and fry shrimp, and roast turtle with bear." What do you mean? That is to say, dip raw fish in shrimp sauce.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there appeared the "Golden Jade Carving", which was the most famous sashimi dish in ancient China. Jia Sixie's Qi Shu Yao Min introduced the practice of Jinqiu in detail. "Bahemu" is made of garlic, ginger, orange, Bai Mei, cooked millet yellow, japonica rice, salt and sauce, and is used for dipping fish.

During the Sui Dynasty, Yang Di went to Jiangdu. When Wu Jun presented bass to Songjiang, Emperor Yang Di said, "The so-called golden jade is good in the southeast." In addition to dipping sauce, Emperor Yang Di also mixed all kinds of lettuce. Yang Di has raised the beauty of fish ponds to a new level.

The next Tang Dynasty was the peak season for sashimi. It was also during this period that this kind of fish was officially introduced to Japan and became sashimi. Wang Wei, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in Song of Luoyang Girls: "Her handmaid brought her cod on a golden plate"; Wang Changling wrote in "Send Six": "Herring snows and oranges fly"; Bai Juyi wrote in "Light Fat": "Cut the scales of Tianchi Lake" and so on, and there are many poems written. Sashimi in the Tang Dynasty is an ordinary daily dish. When you travel, you will also use local materials to make sashimi.

For two and a half centuries, in order to learn China culture, the Japanese sent more than a dozen missions to the Tang Dynasty. These envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty took away a lot of China culture, and this famous pre-Qin dish fish pot in China is one of them. Japan, which lacks culture and doesn't even know how to eat, has gradually learned to eat fish, and they have become a lot more civilized. The era of Japanese civilization also began after Tang sent envoys back to Japan.

In ancient China, there were not only fish dishes but also meat dishes. After the Tang Dynasty, there was the habit of eating fish. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the fat disappeared. There are also records of fish in the literature of Qing Dynasty. But it is getting less and less. Only the court and a few people are left.

In modern times, Manchu and Hezhe people still have the custom of eating sashimi, and some areas in the south still retain the custom of eating sashimi. Japan seldom studied China culture after the Tang Dynasty, so it popularized China's famous pre-Qin dish "Fish Pot", which led many China people to think that "sashimi" was Japanese cuisine, and some Japanese people shamelessly said that it was their traditional cuisine. Actually originated in China.