The origin of the name Chaos that we drink

Wonton (Hanyu pinyin: hún tún) is a traditional food that originated in the north. In the "Dialect" written by Yangxiong of the Western Han Dynasty, it is mentioned that "the cake is called the wonton", and the wonton is a kind of cake, the difference is that it is filled with the inside, and it is eaten after steaming; If it is cooked in soup, it is called "soup cake".

In ancient times, it was believed that this was a kind of sealed bun without seven orifices, so it was called "chaos", and later it was called "wonton" according to the rules of Chinese character making. At this time, there is no difference between wontons and dumplings.

Dumplings have not changed significantly for thousands of years, but wontons have flourished in the south and have an independent style. Since the Tang Dynasty, the names of wontons and dumplings have been officially distinguished.

Compare wontons and dumplings.

The wonton wrapper is a square with a side length of about 6 cm, or an isosceles trapezoidal shape with a top edge of about 5 cm and a bottom edge of about 7 cm; The dumpling wrapper is round with a diameter of about 7 cm.

The wonton skin is thinner and has a transparent feel when cooked. Because of the difference between thin and thick, the same amount of wontons and dumplings are boiled in boiling water, and it takes less time to cook the wontons; In the process of boiling dumplings, cold water needs to be added 3 times to experience the so-called 'three sins and three floats' to ensure that they are cooked.

Wontons are heavy on soup stock, while dumplings are heavy on dipping sauce.

Beijing, Shanghai: places like northern China are commonly referred to as wontons.

Guangdong: Due to the different accents, the sound along the "wonton" is called wonton. The English name "wonton" is originally from Cantonese.

Fujian: Commonly known as flat food, there are also a few people called flat meat, and the meat filling is generally made by beating with a mallet.

Sichuan: Commonly known as copying hands, Sichuan people are spicy, and there is a famous dish called "red oil copying hands".

Hubei: Commonly known as wontons, some people also call them dumplings.

Jiangxi: commonly known as clear soup.

Japan: With the Cantonese chef, from Guangdong, China, pronounced "wantan" along the Cantonese dialect, written as "yunya". The name "wonton" from North China is rare.

Taiwan: Hokkien is called flat food. Around 1949, immigrants from all over China brought the name of their hometown to Taiwan, so it is common to say wonton, wonton, flat food, or copying hands in Taiwan.

Chaos is one of the four fierce monsters in ancient Chinese mythology, according to the record of "Zuo Chuan", the four murderers are the image of a huge dog "Chaos", the head of a sheep and the armpit of the eyes of the "glutton", the winged tiger "Qiqi", and the human head and tiger legs with wild boar fangs "梼杌". The myth of chaos is described earlier in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which is particularly worthy of careful analysis. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" Volume 2 "The Classic of the West Mountains" clouds:

Three hundred and fifty miles to the west is said to be the Tianshan Mountains, there are many gold and jade, there are green male yellow, the Ying water comes out of Yan, and the southwest flows into the Tang Valley. There is a sacred bird, its shape is like a yellow sac, red as a fire, six legs and four wings, Hun Dun has no face, it is a song and dance, but the emperor is also. Hun Dun is chaos, and the image of chaos is a divine bird that knows song and dance.

Some of the books are "there are gods",Traditional "bird" and "Yan" are written in a similar way,There may be errors in the copying,But it all makes sense.。 Obviously, "Hun Dun" here refers to the sun. So how is Chaos associated with Dijiang again?

Dijiang is Dihong, and the ancient sound "Jiang" and "Hong" are connected. And Dihong is the Yellow Emperor - the legendary ancestor of the Chinese nation. Yuan Mei (1716-1798) also said in "The Snake King".

There is a snake king in Chu, like an emperor river, without ears, eyes, claws and nose, but with a mouth. Its shape is like a meat cabinet, and it runs in a muddy way, and the grass and trees everywhere it passes are withered. It is no accident that this passage connects the emperor river, the snake (dragon), and the chaos in "Zhuangzi Ying Emperor".

The word "chaos" has a long history. In Merriam-Webster's dictionary, it has three layers of meaning. First, it refers to the state before the universe existed in an orderly manner, in which formless matter and infinite space were in disorder. the second refers to extreme chaos and disorder; The third refers to the abyss, the bottomless pit, or the large chasm.

In 1963, Lorenz published "Deterministic Aperiodic Flows" in Volume 20 of the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, which is considered the beginning of modern chaos research. In 1975, Li Tianyan and York jointly published "Cycle Three Means Chaos", which for the first time regarded chaos as a mathematical term and gave a strict mathematical definition. In 1977, Ford and Casarte hosted the first Universal Chaos Conference (Cuomo Conference).

The influence of chaos is growing.