What is the origin and development of Chinese food culture?

Origin and Development:

After Pangu opened up the sky and opened up the earth, the first to enter the period of the Aristotle's, the dietary situation is to eat blood, at this time there is no food culture. To the flint period, people know how to drill wood for fire, and from then on cooked food, into the stone cooking era. The main cooking methods: ① cannon, that is, drilling fire to make the flesh and burnt; ② pot: wrapped in mud and then burned; ③ stone mortar with water, food, food with red-hot stone scalded; ④ baking and stir-frying: the stone piece of hot, and then put the plant seeds on top of the stir-fry.

By the time of the Fuxi clan, people learned to net fish, domesticated animals, began to "make a net to teach tenant fishing, raising sacrifices to fill the kitchen.

During the Shennong period, people entered the era of "plowing and pottery," and agriculture began to develop, with the creation of ancient medicine, the invention of Lei?ê, and the people learning to gather crops.

The pottery enabled people to have cooking utensils and man-made containers for the first time, which made it possible to make fermented foods, such as wine, minced meat, acyl (vinegar), cheese, vinegar, sweet wine, etc. The tripod was one of the earliest cooking utensils. The tripod was one of the earliest cooking utensils.

Entering the period of the Yellow Emperor, the Chinese people's dietary situation has improved again, the emperor made stove, stove can concentrate fire to save fuel, so that the food is cooked quickly, "steaming grain for drinking, cooking grain for porridge". This period for the first time due to the cooking method to distinguish between food.

A tribe invented the steaming pot, also known as a retort, the tribe's people also to "Zeng" for the last name. Steaming salt was invented by the Yellow Emperor's vassal, Susha (i.e., the Salt Mother, known as the only local god in Tianjin), who not only knew how to cook but also how to season, which was beneficial to human health.

Legend has it that during Emperor Yao's time, there was a chef named Qian Clang, who was a very good cook and also good at making health soups, and the health soups he made cured Emperor Yao's illness, and Emperor Yao was so happy that he sealed Pengcheng (present-day Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province) to him, and so he was addressed as Pengzu. Peng Zu became the originator of the health care world.

The Zhou-Qin period was a formative period for Chinese food culture, with grains and vegetables as the main food, and during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, home-grown grains and vegetables were basically sparse, but with a different structure than now.

Modern people say "staple food" refers to people eat a variety of grains, or called "grains and cereals"; and "side dishes" refers to people eat a variety of meat, as well as vegetables and vegetables. The "secondary food" refers to the various kinds of meat that people eat, as well as vegetables and eggs, fruits and so on.

The ancients believed that "five grains are for nourishment, five meats are for benefit, five fruits are for assistance, and five vegetables are for enrichment.

Cultural characteristics

China is an ancient civilization, but also a long food culture. The food culture can be summarized as follows:

The seasons are different

Eating according to the seasons is another major feature of Chinese cooking. Since ancient times, China has been seasoned according to seasonal changes to seasoning, vegetables, winter flavor mellow and thick, summer light and cool; winter more stewed simmering, summer more cold frozen.

Paying attention to beauty

Chinese cooking, not only skilled, but also pay attention to the beauty of the tradition of dishes, pay attention to food color, aroma, taste, shape, and the coordination of the device. The performance of the beauty of the dishes is multifaceted, whether it is a carrot, or a cabbage heart, can be carved out of a variety of shapes, unique, to achieve the color, aroma, taste, shape, the harmony of the United States, to give a person with a high degree of unity of the spirit and the material enjoyment of the special.