Those ancient food on TV, have you ever paid serious attention?

As a foodie, I guess I don't pay attention to food all the time in my life, right?

Even when I watch TV I pay more attention to food. For example, the ancient costume drama inside the called chicken ah, what Yangzhou fried rice ah, I am impressed, I do not know in the present life can still taste the delicious ancient times?

Lion's head in "Doctor Hilarious"

Lion's head

Lion's head is a traditional dish in the Huaiyang cuisine of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. Legend has it that the practice of lion's head began in the Sui Dynasty, was in the Sui Emperor Yang's visit, the chef to Yangzhou Wansongshan, money pier, ivory forest, sunflower Gang four famous scenery as the theme of the squirrel cinnamon fish, money shrimp cake, ivory chicken strips, and sunflower chopped meat four dishes, it is said to be the original name of the sunflower chopped meat, sunflower meatballs, the Tang Dynasty, the Prince of Zhenshi Wei Jiaozhi's family cook Wei Juyuan to do the four famous dishes of the squirrel cinnamon fish, money shrimp cake, ivory chicken strips, and sunflower chopped meat, so that guests in the The guests were so impressed that the Sunflower Chopped Pork was renamed as Lion's Head. The dish is soft and creamy, healthy and nutritious.

Lion's head is made of 60% fat meat and 40% lean meat plus green onions, ginger, eggs and other ingredients chopped into puree, made into fist-sized meatballs, can be steamed or braised, fat but not greasy. But modern generally use more lean meat. Xu Ke in the "Qing barnyard notes" clearly recorded: "lion's head, to look like and named, pork round also. Pork fat and lean half, fine cut coarse chopping, is and to protein, so that easy to solidify, or add shrimp, crabmeat. To a yellow sand can, the bottom of the yellow sprouts or bamboo shoots, slightly and water and salt, meat for a great round, placed on it, covered with leaves, to cover the lid of the can, it is into the iron pot, sprinkle a little salt, to prevent the pot from cracking. Then, the dry burning of the fire. Every burning several firewood a stop, about five minutes more burning, Hou cooked out."

"Shooting Heroes" in the called chicken, every time to see the old boy to eat are full of oil, love, always feel that is the rare delicacy on earth, so that people also want to taste.

Calling chicken, also known as Changshu called chicken, simmered chicken, is a traditional dish in Changshu, Jiangsu Province. It is processed chicken wrapped in clay and lotus leaves. The production materials are fresh and tender lotus leaves, yellow mud, live chicken and so on.

The preparation method of the chicken is similar to that of "Cannon Dolphin" which is one of the "Eight Treasures" in the Zhou Dynasty, and "Cannon Dolphin" is a dish made by wrapping up the suckling pig with clay and barbecuing it, and then further processing it.

Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a man who begged his way to a village in Changshu County. One day, he got a chicken by chance and wanted to slaughter it for cooking, but he had neither cooking utensils nor seasonings. He came to the foot of Mount Yushan, will kill the chicken after removing the internal organs, with the hair coated with yellow mud, firewood and grass, put the coated chicken simmering and roasting in the fire, until the mud dry chicken cooked, peeled off the mud shells, the chicken hair is also with the mud shells off, revealing the chicken meat. About 100 years ago, Changshu County, northwest of the Yushan resort "Mountain View Garden" restaurant according to this legend, to the rough and refined, refined method to create this chicken.

Roasted duck in "Love Through Time"

Roasted duck has a long history, originating in China during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, when "Food and Treasure Records" already recorded a roast duck. After Zhu Yuanzhang built the capital of Nanjing, the imperial kitchen of the Ming Palace took the plump and succulent lake duck of Nanjing to make dishes. In order to increase the flavor of the duck dishes, the chef used charcoal baking, dishes after the duck mouth crispy, fat and not greasy, praised by the people, that is, the court named "roast duck".

In the early Ming Dynasty, the people love to eat Nanjing duck, the emperor also loved to eat, it is said that Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, "day food roast duck a". The imperial chefs in the palace tried to develop new ways of eating duck to please the emperor, so they also developed a barbecued duck and stewed oven roasted duck these two.

With Zhu Di moved to Beijing, also took a lot of Nanjing court duck masters. In the Jiajing years, roast duck from the court to the people, the old "cheap square" duck store in Caishikou Mi Shi Hutong opened, which is also the first Beijing duck store. At that time, the name of the restaurant was "Jinling Sliced Duck", and there was a line of small characters on the front of the old "Cheap Square" restaurant: Jinling Roast Duck. The roast duck with barbecued pork is represented by "Quanjude", while the roast duck in the stewed oven is the most famous in "Cheap Square".

Hotpot in "Four Famous Shops"

Hotpot, known as "antique soup" and named for the "gurgling" sound of food being thrown into boiling water, is an original Chinese delicacy with a long history, and it is a popular food for young and old alike. According to evidence, the Warring States period that there is hot pot, people were pots for pots, to the Song Dynasty, hot pot eating in the folk has been very common, the Southern Song Dynasty Lin Hong's "mountain home Qingsui" recipes, there will be with friends to eat hot pot introduction. In the Yuan Dynasty, hot pot was spread to Mongolia and used to cook beef and mutton. In the Qing Dynasty, the hot pot was not only popular among the people, but also became a famous "court dish", the ingredients are wild game such as mountain chicken.

The origin of hot pot is also a matter of opinion, just like the Arabic numerals, originated in India, but was spread to the four sides by the Arabs, which is the reason why people misunderstand that the Arabic numerals were invented by the Arabs.

On the origin of the hot pot, there are two ways of saying: one says that in China during the Three Kingdoms period or Emperor Yang era, when the "copper tripod", is the predecessor of the hot pot; the other says that the hot pot began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, unearthed artifacts, "Doo" is a reference to the hot pot. Visible hot pot in China has a history of more than 1900 years. Chongqing hot pot as early as Zuo Si's "San Du Fu" in the record. Visible its history in more than 1700 years.

The origin of China's food culture is really do not know how long ago, the heritage of Chinese food is also a classic, each dish is worth tasting, seriously feel.