Chapter 83 Sliced ??Soup and Dumplings
This was not what Hong Tao guessed, but what Luo Youde told him. He originally wanted to invite Luo Youde to taste his mutton, but he could only change it to seafood.
Some people may say that you are wrong! The Song Dynasty strictly prohibited the slaughter of plowing oxen and private oxen trade. Yes, the Song Dynasty had this regulation, but the regulations were regulations, and it was actually valid. According to the records of "Song Huiyaoyi Drafts" and "Song Dahuang Collection", in the past 300 years, the emperor issued more than 50 imperial edicts to prohibit the slaughter of plowing oxen from the public. Based on our logic, if this imperial edict really works, one dish is enough. Why do I have to do more than 50? On average, one dish was given in five or six years, and the content was the same. From this we can see that the Song Dynasty had never been banned from eating beef from beginning to end. It was not that some people ate it secretly, but that it was eaten on a large scale, and even bothered the emperor to personally inquire.
In addition, you can go and read "Water Margin". It describes the scene of eating beef more than once. Not only do you eat in the mountains, but you still eat in the city restaurants, but you still order vegetables blatantly. In the 38th chapter, Songjiang, Dai Zong and Li Kui went to the Pipa Tower in Jiangzhou to drink. As a result, Li Kui wanted to eat meat. The waiter looked down on him and told him that we only sell mutton here, not beef. As a result, Li Kui was anxious and threw it to the waiter on the plate.
Why is Li Kui anxious? Because the waiter was turning around and calling him a inferior person. Beef is cheap, usually eaten by ordinary people, mutton is expensive, and usually eaten by rich people. This is the same as an ordinary person wearing ordinary clothes who went to a high-end restaurant. When ordering, the waiter used the price of the dishes. Let's not talk about the service attitude of this Pipalou whether it is correct or not. From this, it can be seen that beef was rotten in the Song Dynasty, and mutton is the high-end food that beef is coaxed by beef X.
According to the customs of the Song people, the Winter Solstice is the most important festival within a year, and the Spring Festival is not very important. The Winter Solstice is the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere. The Song people have the habit of celebrating the arrival of winter. Every day, the whole country is on holidays, from the emperor to the beggars, they wear new clothes to worship their ancestors first, and then rub them violently. After the meal, they can play with them. No matter how much they bet, they don’t have to worry about the police knocking on the door, because the emperor gave his grace, and issued an imperial decree to announce that they would be gambling for these three days.
Chinese festivals, whether in ancient times or modern times, generally correspond to one kind of food. Moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival, and dumplings on the Spring Festival... The Song people are the same for the festival. Each festival has food corresponding to each festival, but the types of food are slightly different from later generations. The Song people do not eat dumplings or sliced soup during the Spring Festival. They do not call it sliced soup, but called it 王(bo)达(tuo).
This custom can be found in a poem by Lu You. In the second part of "Shushang Books", there are two sentences describing the Spring Festival in the Song Dynasty: "In the evening of the day, I will divide the pineapple with the pineapple, and the people at dawn will change to Zhong Kui." This means that after worshiping ancestors on New Year's Eve, they will share the pineapple with them. They will get up on the morning of the first day of the New Year, take down the old New Year's paintings, and replace them with new ones. In the small notes of this poem, Lu You specifically pointed out: "The soup cake must be used on the year, which is called winter wontons and pineapple." The year is the first day of the New Year, and the soup cake is the pineapple. That is to say, the Song people not only eat slices of soup on New Year's Eve, but also have to eat the first day of the New Year! Isn't it said that the Southern Song Dynasty was very rich, so why did they eat some soup during the Spring Festival? This is related to the Song people's habit of celebrating the festival.
The winter solstice is in mid-November and the Spring Festival is at the end of December. The two festivals are too close. For ordinary people in the Song Dynasty, the winter solstice is a festival that must be held in a special way, and even if the family has no money to borrow money, it is necessary to do it. So, most ordinary families have almost consumed their savings on the winter solstice. They have not yet recovered. The Spring Festival is here again, so they can only make do with slices of soup. This is just to say that ordinary people. If they are wealthy families, they eat well in the winter solstice and wear new clothes. There is no difference when the Spring Festival.
So what should I eat in the winter solstice of the Song Dynasty? Didn’t Lu You say that, winter wontons! The wontons here are not wontons, but dumplings! The people of the Song Dynasty did not have the word dumplings yet, so they called dumplings wontons. There were also real wontons in the Song Dynasty, but they were not called wontons, but called gu (duo). The turtles in the Song Dynasty were like modern wontons, but they were not sealed, but were wrapped in large quantities, just like small buns. It is better to say that they are called wontons. Moreover, the method of making turtles is not to be thrown into boiling water, but to be cooked on iron rods. In later generations, you can find a little shadow of this thing. Put them on a pancake pan and fry them in oil, which is just frying bread or pot stickers. If you put them on a trunk and steam them, it is not to be roasted.
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Following the customs, Hong Tao also changed into his new clothes and undyed casual clothes on the day of the winter solstice! This was made by the tailor in Zhenzhou City. He never had to wear them. Now he was just taking them out to show off. Not only clothes and pants, but also belts and leather shoes, this means there is no dressing mirror, and Hong Tao could not see the effect. He looks like this now, holding a civilization stick in his hand, which is like a gangster in the Shanghai beach during the Republic of China. However, the people of the Song Dynasty had never seen the Republic of China, and they didn't know about the Shanghai beach. Although they thought Hong Tao's clothes were a bit weird, they didn't take it to heart. At most, they thought that Hong Tao's hometown was like this.
Hong Tao felt it was not enough to wear it on himself, so he encouraged Bo Zhu to wear a set of clothes of the same style, and no longer tied a cloth strap around his waist. He changed it to a whale-skin carved leather belt, and a leather purse with buttons on it, which was specially designed for copper plates. He also wore leather sandals like Hong Tao on his feet, and he didn't dare to leave when walking, and he felt a little as he was just around the corner. She grew so old that she probably hadn't stepped on any kind of shoes other than straw sandals.
"Hmph! Humph! I insult my ancestors!" Old Man Bofu still didn't like his heartless daughter and his son-in-law who was full of ulterior motives. He said it if he didn't like it. Especially when he saw that they dared to wear leather shoes under their feet, he wouldn't get angry. He knew that he couldn't control Hong Tao now, but he had to say it, whether he liked it or not.
In fact, wearing clothes is just to cover up, keep warm, and make things easier, and then it is beautiful and ugly. There is no need to consider keeping warm here in Hainan Island. Single clothes are always all year round, and convenient work is the only need. The original trousers did not have waistbands, and they had to tie them around the waist with cloth straps, which was very hot and uncomfortable. With Hong Tao's pants with waistbands like belts, younger trousers began to accept them slowly, and secretly asked Hong Tao to wear them. She would rather go home and be beaten and scolded by the grandfather. As long as it was said that Hong Tao asked her to wear them, the elderly at home would tolerate them. There is no way, who can make people have great ability?
Slowly, some young men from the Tan family wore leather sandals. As long as there was one, there would be a second one immediately, and then they couldn't stop it. When Chen Mingen was also told by Hong Tao that he hugged his feet and put on a pair of leather sandals, the old people also began to accept this new thing. Trying to wear it on a few steps, it was indeed more comfortable to walk on the gravel road than walking barefoot.
Carl was even more radical than Hong Tao. He didn't wear long trousers and put on the big shorts that Hong Tao planned to wear in summer, revealing his yellow hair. The men of the Han family were already accustomed to the existence of him, the Qin people, but when the Han family saw him approaching, they still couldn't help but avoid it. This made Carl very distressed. He felt that he was already very polite and gentlemanly, so why didn't he get the respect of a lady?
"You straighten your tongue first, don't talk with a word, one word is a word, don't connect it together. I'll give you a task. After the New Year, you go to school every afternoon to teach the children Latin for half an hour, and strengthen your Chinese. By the way, when you become the teacher of your children, their parents will respect you and no longer hide from you. Also, I'll ask you a question, you always make do with those big girls and little wives, are you looking for a woman? If you really want to think about it, you'd better
Tell me directly that women in the Song Dynasty were not like your country. They didn’t like to express their love directly. They liked to be tactful and even had to communicate through third parties. Do you understand?” Hong Tao was very dissatisfied with Carl’s progress in learning Chinese. This guy was used to speaking Latin, and he also pronounced in Chinese. It was a string of Latin. It was a string of people who really couldn’t understand it. As for whether he wanted to find a woman in the Song Dynasty, Hong Tao did not restrict it, but he should remind him not to make big mistakes because of different living habits.
"No, no, I have my beloved wife and children in my hometown..." Carl simply denied it.
"It's hard to say, you are all dead. Will your territory and manor be accepted by your cousin? By the way, your wife will accept it. Even if she falls in love with others, it is not morally indebted, because in law, she is a widow!" Hong Tao's mouth was very vicious. He would say whatever others don't like to hear, and then he would be happy when he saw you angry.
"My wife doesn't know...!" Carl was actually feeling cold when he was told by Hong Tao, but he just relied on instinct to resist.
"Okay, even if your wife doesn't! Let's talk about some serious things now. Does your Holy Roman Empire have a crossbow weapon?" Hong Tao approached Carl and asked in a low voice.
"Cross Bow! That's something that only lowly farmers would use. They are blasphemy to the knights!" When Carl heard Hong Tao say the word Cross Bow, he immediately opened his eyes wide, as if he heard this word as insulting him.
Chapter completed!