In the history of Chinese painting, there is a painting called "Wen Hui Tu", which depicts a scene of elegant gatherings of literati and poets from the Song Dynasty drinking tea. It is said that the author of this painting is Song Huizong. Not only that, in this painting, we can clearly see many exquisite kitchen utensils and the delicacies that are indispensable in the kitchen utensils. So today we will explore why hot pot was called "Boxia Gong" in the Song Dynasty when delicacies were popular?
As early as thousands of years ago, everyone began to eat hot pot. When offering sacrifices in ancient times, people generally had to "strike bells and set up cauldrons" to eat. The beef and mutton to be cut were put into the cauldron, cooked, and then divided and eaten. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, people often used pottery hot pots. As the saying goes, "Green ants have newly fermented wine and a small red clay stove. It's snowing in the evening, can you drink a cup without water?" In addition, throughout the dynasties, the scholar-bureaucrat class in the Song Dynasty was very strong. People who respect wild animals, especially eating hares, are very popular. Moreover, in ancient times, cooking methods were extremely simple. The Song Dynasty was the first dynasty to use cooking as the main cooking method. Not only that, they also invented shabu-shabu, so in addition to roasting rabbit meat, boiling rabbit meat, and stewing rabbit meat, Song people also had another way to eat it, which was "rabbit meat shabu-shabu".
On a trip to visit friends, Lin Hong, a gourmet from the Song Dynasty, accidentally discovered a meat-eating method called "Boxia Gong", and its raw material was rabbit meat. After this trip to visit the hermit, Lin Hong recorded the specific method of "pouring the clouds to offer" in "Shanjia Qinggong Volume 1": "Building the clouds to offer "Materia Medica": Rabbit meat nourishes the body and replenishes qi. , can't be eaten with chickens. When I visited Liuqu in Wuyi, I encountered a snowy day and found a rabbit. There was no cook to make it. Place the stove on the seat, add half a bucket of water, and wait for the sound of the soup. After a cup, divide each cup with chopsticks, and ask yourself to put the soup in, put it on the table and eat it, and then offer it to each person as appropriate. ”
Just reading the text makes my throat squirm and my mouth water. I can’t help but want to eat one or two pieces of rabbit meat dipped in sauce. Not to mention Lin Hong, a gourmet, he immediately Follow the instructions and use chopsticks to turn the meat slices back and forth in the hot soup, so that the color of the meat slices is like clouds, which is incomparable. Therefore, this meat-eating method is named "Pu Xia Gong" and he wrote a poem about it: "Surge." There is snow on the Qingjiang River, and the wind blows over the sunset. Mo Yun: "Drunkenly recalling the taste of the mountains, I forgot that this is your home." "Both pigs and sheep can do it." Finally, as usual, I will give you another poem about rabbits, Song Qi's "Rabbit": The rabbit gallops across the hills, and the hungry eagle kisses the sky fiercely. In order to annoy the elk and dog, he gave fresh food to the orcs. Crazy eyes and locust trees are falling, and I am frightened. But there are many cunning points, which can be returned to the flesh to help cook the mutton.