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In each dynasty has its own etiquette, and today we are going to talk about what are the etiquettes of eating in the Tang Dynasty, at a good wine banquet, some people are obsessed with wine, some people borrow wine to write poems, and drink with you in the cup in the light at night, a group of people chant poems there, bring them to be happy, and take out some delicious pastries.

Come and taste it, this is the wine banquet of the Tang Dynasty, and it sounds as if you are in it.

There are many poems describing food, but from the beginning of the taste of the food is the plate containing these foods, at that time the plate can be so unavoidable to look at the plate, but the Tang people love the container of food, and gold and silver can be placed in the first place, at that time there is a saying that the container of gold and silver to hold food can make people live every year, this saying is also very popular in ancient times, it should be because gold and silver are intact after hundreds of years of preservation, and the use of gold and silver to dine can absorb the gold and silver, I heard the old people talk about the Tongrentang in Beijing at that time.

When boiling the medicine, I couldn't put the two gold bars in the pot.

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The first thing to eat in ancient times was not to drink too much.

Because in ancient times, if you can't even go out of the door after eating at other houses, you will be laughed at, so you should drink in moderation, and the second mouth can not make noise with chopsticks, which will disturb others to eat, which is also very unhygienic, and thirdly, you can't use chopsticks to beat the bowl at the dinner table, because in ancient times, only beggars would go to knock on the bowl to attract the attention of others, fourth, you can't look back and forth in the dish, this is rude to the guest, and fifth, the ancients didn't like to drop the food on the table when the guest had no appetite. Sixth, the ancients were very afraid of sticking chopsticks on people's meals, and in ancient times, chopsticks were used to point the ancestors, and if it was at the dinner table, this was a curse to this person.

And today there are many etiquettes that have been imitated and surpassed, but we must pay attention to these methods when eating, whether it is eating, dressing, or life, we must pay attention to etiquette, what do you think of it?

When eating in the Tang Dynasty, special wine glasses were used, and they had to sit on the ground, which was divided into separate meals, and everyone had their own plates and utensils, which were mainly made of ceramics and wood, which were very noble.

When eating, you have to sit and eat, and everyone has to separate when they eat, and it is only later that there are tables and chairs, and the meals are mixed together.

The Tang Dynasty was in a transitional period of the meal system, with some eating two meals and some eating three meals.

Pre-Qin period. The ancients generally followed the eating habit of "two meals a day", that is, the "two meals system", which was also adapted to the time needs of farming. In Oracle.

Among the relevant records, there is "Great Food."

snacks". The timekeeping method of the Shang Dynasty called 7-9 o'clock in the morning as "big food" and 15-17 o'clock in the afternoon as "small food".

However, even though the "two-meal system" was widely adopted during this period, there were still a certain number of families in the middle and upper affluent classes who adopted the system of three meals a day.

Since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the eating habit of three meals a day has been initially formed, and at this time, the three meals also have a relatively fixed proper name. We now call the three meals breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but instead of the "three meals," they were called the "three meals." After that, the Sui and Tang dynasties.

The same is true. Of course, the meal system in the whole society is not uniform, for example, the emperor's diet is different from that of ordinary people, generally using four meals a day, while some poor families continue to practice the two-meal system.

In ancient times, it was mostly two meals a day, in order to adapt to the agricultural living habits of "making at sunrise and resting at sunset". Breakfast is at 7 o'clock - it is about 9 o'clock, and you eat more, because you have to cope with the heavy agricultural production work, which is called "big food"; At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, I ate again, because it was going to be dark and I couldn't go to work anymore, so I ate less, which was called "snacks". However, among the upper classes and scholars, the three-meal system was practiced, and it gradually became popular.

During the Three Kingdoms period, agricultural productivity had developed greatly, and except for a small number of people who still practiced the two-meal system, they all had three meals a day, but the time of eating was different from that of modern times. The first meal is morning food, that is, morning food. Generally after the light of day; The second meal is a diurnal eclipse, alternating between morning and afternoon; The third meal is a meal from 3 to 5 p.m.

The monk does not eat one meal a day and does not eat at noon.

Civilians have one or two meals, the morning meal time is about 7-9 o'clock, and the dinner time is about 15-17 o'clock

The nobles or the people of the city probably ate three meals a day, which is very similar to now. According to the record of "Zizhi Tongjian: Xuanzong Ji", "In the Anshi Rebellion, when Tang Xuanzong fled west to Xianyang Jixian Palace, it was noon," and Yang Guozhong offered Hu cakes from the city. ”

It should be three meals, but the areas where people live are different, and people have different living habits, and in some places it is two meals a day.

Hehe, if you have money, eat more, hehe!

Three meals a day After all, the Tang Dynasty was beautiful about fat.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, people mainly ate rice, corn (small rice), and wheat rice.

1. Rice is also rice, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, among all kinds of grains, rice has the highest yield, and the consumption is also the largest, rice is suitable for cooking rice and porridge, so it is widely popular, but rice is mainly planted in the south since ancient times, so rice is the daily staple food of southerners, at that time, rice was regarded as fine grain by northerners, very popular.

2. Corn, millet is millet, corn is the daily staple food of northerners.

3. Wheat rice has been eaten by the Chinese for thousands of years, and it is still steamed and eaten today. However, during the Sui and Tang dynasties, the status of wheat rice continued to decline, and people rarely ate wheat grains directly. Originally, flour processing technology was advancing at that time, and cakes made from pasta became the main method of using wheat.

4. In addition to corn, people in this period often used millet and sorghum, millet is millet rice, that is, yellow sticky rice, also called millet. Sorghum, that is, sorghum, these two grains were also the raw materials for people to cook rice at that time, especially sorghum rice, which was the food of rich and noble families at that time.

After looking at the daily meals eaten in the Tang Dynasty, let's introduce several uncommon meals.

1. Vegetable rice, the Tang Dynasty people mixed cheap vegetables and rice together to cook, and vegetables were added to make up for the lack of food.

2. Oak rice is a meal made of acorns, which is not a common meal, and only in the year of famine, when the people are hungry and hungry.

3. Qingfeng rice is a kind of rice in the summer of the Tang Dynasty, and it is a kind of rice that can only be seen in the homes of rich and noble people, according to records, Qingfeng rice is made of crystal rice, longan powder, borneol, and buttermilk, and then put the rice in the ice pool after it is made, and can only be eaten after it is cooled, and it has the effect of cooling off, but this kind of rice is only enjoyed in the palace and the rich and noble, and cannot be popularized and promoted.

At that time, the staple food was mainly pasta, or more specifically, it was mainly cake, and there were dozens of kinds of cakes. In all kinds of history books, **, poems, there are often all kinds of cakes, such as steamed cakes, pancakes, hu cakes, soup cakes and so on.

At that time, the meat diet was mainly mutton (eating beef was still nominally a crime and punishable a heavy sentence, although pork was available, but not too much). Chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry meat are not considered meat - there is a small story here, in the early Tang Dynasty, it was forbidden to eat meat when the imperial history went to the place, but in the early Tang Dynasty, the famous Xiangma thoughtful place especially liked to eat chicken, and then it was sued, Tang Taizong said I forbid the imperial history to eat meat, and I am afraid of the county fee, what is the problem with eating chicken? The meaning is that I am afraid of extravagance and waste, so I forbid Yushi to eat meat, but how can eating chicken be considered meat?

At that time, the Tang Dynasty was very popular in fishing and hunting, fishing was very common, and there was a very famous dish at that time, which was cut fish, which is today's sashimi. The prey of hunting, such as deer, rabbits, wild boars, and bears, also often appeared on the menus of the Tang people.

Speaking of vegetables, they are very common now: tomatoes, potatoes, green peppers, sweet potatoes, onions, peppers, corn were not available at that time. Even the common Chinese cabbage (then called siad) and spinach (then called bolens) are not common vegetables.

The cabbage was not in good condition at that time, and the spinach was just introduced** too expensive.

At that time, the most common vegetable was okra, and now there is also, called winter amaranth (this statement ** in Mr. Wu Qijun's "Plant Names and Facts", but ancient and modern okra are not the same thing), Du Fu has a poem: Rice can be white, okra is boiled and renewed. Who is slippery and easy to be full, and the old is soft and even.

But it is not very common anymore, and it is only eaten in some provinces and cities in the south. In addition, there is a very common vegetable, called shallot, Du Fu also has a poem: In the hermit firewood door, the vegetables surround the autumn.

The surplus basket is exposed, and it is not waiting to be asked for a letter. , and now there are still names, but it is also very uncommon, and it is only found in some provinces and cities in the south.