The ancients ate porridge to change their eating habits, keep fit, or show their identity.
Su Dongpo loves bean porridge and says, "Boiled beans in a sand bottle are as soft as crisp." One night, Sue played with her friend Wu, and she was very hungry at night. Wu advised her to eat rice porridge, saying, "The new porridge is good for the stomach." Rice porridge can not only satisfy hunger, but also has the effect of health preservation.
Liu Kezhuang, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, said that "it is rare to cook porridge with a chef", not because of the lack of rice, but because of innovation and change. Fan Chengda, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, ate porridge for "carving ginger and cutting laurel and pouring sucrose, which is sweeter and smoother than Huang Liang".
Yang Wanli, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, loves to cook plum porridge: "Cook porridge without the core."
Lu you is even more good at eating porridge, saying, "Only by eating porridge can you become immortal." He thinks that eating porridge can prolong life and become immortal. No wonder he lived through all his life and lived to 86.
Eating porridge in ancient palaces is a grand ceremony. Xuan Di, the Emperor Gaozu who "asked Shu Ren about ghosts and gods", ordered Confucian scholars to read The Songs of the South, "Every recitation is porridge". The emperor of the Tang dynasty also gave the scholar a bachelor's degree with "windproof porridge" It is said that Bai Juyi was lucky enough to eat it, "the taste of food is fragrant for seven days." It's also interesting for the emperor to eat porridge: in the ninth year of Jin Yuankang, in Sima Zhong, Hui Di, "the world is deserted and the people starve to death. The emperor listened and said,' Why not eat minced meat?' "Mi, porridge also. Ordinary people can't eat porridge without food. Hui Di, who is used to eating minced meat, said that ordinary people don't have rice porridge to eat, so why don't they eat meat porridge? A word makes the world laugh.
And more ancient people eat porridge out of helplessness, in order to fill their stomachs and prolong their life, to spend a good year of famine.
Fan Zhongyan in the Song Dynasty was born in a poor family in his early years and studied abroad for many years. He eats rice porridge twice a day to satisfy his hunger, and "breaking the machine to row porridge" has become a much-told story. Gong Zizhen praised it in the Qing Dynasty: "My family is poor and persistent, and I am hungry and thirsty for reading. In the porridge house, the knowledge is profound. " There are two poems about rice porridge in Zhao Yi's Miscellaneous Stories of Exposing the eaves in Qing Dynasty. One of them said, "Rice is not harvested in dry years, and porridge is not thick so far. People's words stick to things, and I say spoons carry both sides. Holding the wind and waves in front of the hall, it will be handed over to the court for sinking next month. There is no need to take bronze photos in the morning, and the eyebrows are clearly inside. " Secondly, he said, "Cooking is better than cooking porridge, so that we can discuss it with our children. One liter can be used for two liters, and two days can be counted as six diets. A guest only needs to add fire and water, and doesn't need money for soup. Mo Yan is indifferent and tastes less, and the taste is long in indifference. " It's sad to read. I think Zhao Yi used to be an official in the DPRK, and then resigned to study, so that he could get close to the people, showing the embarrassment of his family at that time. And ordinary people can't live at all. They are hungry, naked, hungry and miserable, and I'm afraid they don't even have porridge.