Noodles developed from the original soup cake. By the Song Dynasty, the categories were prosperous and varied. In addition to boiling in soup, there are also processing methods such as stir-frying, burning, and frying. Various meat and vegetable toppings (called saozi in the north) are added to the noodles to create various local flavors.
According to Volume 4 of Meng Yuanlao's "Tokyo Menghua Lu" of the Song Dynasty, the noodles in Bianjing include Sichuan-style "Pork Noodles" and "Dalian Noodles"; northern-style "罨生 soft lamb noodles" "Tongpi Noodles", " Cold Tao "; Southern style "Tongpi Hot Braised Noodles"; Temple's "Simple Noodles", etc.
These noodles are either hot or cold. The toppings for the noodles are lean meat toppings and fatty meat toppings. Each bowl is "ten Wen". Twenty bowls”. "Tokyo Menghualu" Volume 4 "Restaurant" says: "In the old days, only spoons were used, but now all tendons are used." Tendons are chopsticks, which is what we call chopsticks. In the Song Dynasty, noodles were really made with chopsticks. Picky eaters" of noodles.
dried noodles can be said to be the earliest "instant noodles" of the Chinese. This convenient and portable noodle allows people to taste the taste of "home" anytime and anywhere. It is said that when Qin Shi Huang went to the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains during his campaign against the Six Kingdoms, he saw an old man hanging a row of noodles to dry in a farmhouse on the roadside. The noodles were thin and long, like dried noodles with a silver curtain.
Qin Shihuang ordered people to cook the noodles and taste them. He found them smooth, refreshing and extremely delicious. As a result, noodles were listed as imperial tributes and paid tribute year after year. In the Tang Dynasty, ordinary people also put noodles into gift boxes as gifts for relatives and friends. Noodles are now also a must-have convenience food at home. There are also hollow noodle workshops all over the Central Plains, and they are very thin, with a diameter of only 1.2-1.3 mm.
There are many kinds of noodles. A bowl of noodles can satisfy all your imagination of noodles. Different noodles carry the same wishes of people. Noodles are eaten on the seventh day of the first lunar month. Noodles are eaten on this day. People hope that if they wrap their legs around the years with noodles, they can live forever. Who doesn’t eat a bowl of " longevity noodles " on their birthday? It is said that this is related to a legend about Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty celebrated his birthday, the chef made noodles. Dongfang Shuo explained this because the noodles were long, and long noodles indicated longevity. This made Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty very happy, so there was a custom of eating longevity noodles on his birthday.
In addition to eating noodles on birthdays, Chinese people also eat "Ryufu noodles" on the summer solstice. Because in ancient times, sacrifices and prayers were required on the summer solstice, when the new wheat had just fallen, people would worship the gods with face . Documents record that He Yan in the Three Kingdoms period was precisely because he ate noodles until his face was sweating on the summer solstice. Only then did people know that the legendary "Powdered Helang" was not powdered on the face, but real. His face is as white as jade.
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