Ancient Manchu diet poems

"Huang Chengcheng rice cake, sticky, red kidney beans, sprinkled on it. Gege's engagement dinner was held in front of me with both hands. Eating red beans makes you feel at ease, and eating rice cakes feels more sticky. The more sticky, the more I feel that my heart is not scattered, and my heart is sticky. " This is a Manchu love song, with the theme of sticky cake, expressing the love between young men and women, and this sticky cake is a typical Manchu cake. Manchu pastry is a general term for Manchu-style pastry food, and the word "Manchu" in the so-called "Manchu Chinese food" refers to Manchu pastry. Most of the cakes in Manzhouli are made of sticky rice flour, and the production process is mainly roasting, roasting, steaming, branding and seasoning with honey. It is characterized by soft and sweet, crisp and sweet. Manchu people have always liked sticky food, because sticky food can resist hunger and is convenient for expeditionary hunting as dry food. Manchu ancestors usually eat two meals a day. When the sun rises in the morning, they go hunting after breakfast, but at night, they don't come back no matter how late, which makes Manchu people have special feelings for Bobo.

As a traditional food of Manchu people, Manchu cakes are still preserved in many Manchu inhabited areas, and some of them are still very popular all over the country, especially "Saqima", which is well-known and deeply loved in the country, is also a kind of Manchu cakes. Shaqima is a Manchu transliteration, which translates into Chinese as "sugar bag". The production method of ancient Shaqima is recorded in Yanjing Years: "Shaqima is bread from Manchuria, made of white flour mixed with rock sugar and cream. It is shaped like glutinous rice, baked in a furnace with ash-free wood, and then made into a square, sweet and greasy. " In addition, fruit materials will be added. Before Manchu entered the customs, there was a wild berry in Manchu, which looked like dog milk and was the main fruit material of Shaqima at that time. After the Qing dynasty entered the customs, the fruit material was gradually replaced by raisins, melon seeds and hawthorn. Shaqima, as a popular snack in the Qing Dynasty, is often used as an offering for temples and sacrifices.

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After Manchu entered the customs in Qing dynasty, Bobo was also taken to the court with Manchu. In the Qing palace, the emperor, empress dowager, etc. I often make Manchu cakes in the palace and give them to concubines. This form is called "rewarding gram food". "SmithKline" is Manchu, which means rewards and gifts. In addition, if festivals and sacrifices are held in the palace, a large number of cakes should be prepared as offerings. In the three mausoleums outside the Commissioner's office, there are also more than a dozen women who specialize in eating spicy food in each mausoleum. They specialize in making a cake during the big sacrifice. Besides, the emperor can't leave the palace without a cake. Emperor Kangxi traveled eastward to Shengjing Mausoleum for the first time and brought a "cake kitchen" from Beijing. In the archives of the Qing Dynasty "Black Map Archives" collected by Liaoning Provincial Archives, there is a record that the Crown Prince carried a large number of treasures with him during the Kangxi period. In addition, the emperor also gave cakes as rewards to soldiers who had made meritorious military service, which shows the lofty position of Manchu cakes in the hearts of Manchu people.