Du Fu has a poem saying that "the wine and meat in Zhumen stink, and the bones freeze to death on the road". We generally believe that a rich and expensive family must be a feast of big fish and big meat. In fact, real rich people only cook chicken, duck and fish for the needs of a few festivals and ceremonies. In fact, in daily life, mainly healthy and light food, less meat.

Many dishes mentioned in a dream of red mansions are not mainly meat. For example, Baoyu deliberately left Qingwen a tofu-skin steamed bread, Siqi asked the kitchen to steam tender egg soup for her, and Grandma Liu went to the Grand View Garden to find eggplant ... The beauties in Dream of Red Mansions were all raised by elegant and simple diets.

Rich people eat not only to satisfy their appetite, but also to pursue health and prolong life. In China's physiotherapy culture, food supplements and medicated diets account for a large proportion.

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes internal supplement and external adjustment, and "eating" is the most important way to connect the inside and outside of the human body. Therefore, China people have been groping for progress in "eating" throughout the ages, thus forming the most complete, largest, most diverse and elegant food culture in China.

In China's food culture, "porridge" is the earliest, the longest developing and the most nourishing.

In ancient times, porridge was called "Mi". According to research, it has a history of more than 4000 years. As early as the Longshan culture period, our ancestors knew how to cook food until it was cooked. They planted crops and created the earliest pot ceramic cooker "Wei". It turns out that porridge was cooked in Wei. Therefore, the word "taste" of porridge in ancient times is the reason.

In ancient times, the status of porridge was higher than rice. It was very troublesome to steam rice in ancient times, but only water, rice and a pot were needed to cook porridge, which saved money and food, and was full and convenient. Therefore, porridge is the first choice of ancient people's diet.

Because of its cheapness, porridge has long been rejected by the rich, who think that eating porridge is a symbol of poverty. However, with the development of economic medicine and pharmacology, people gradually excavated the benefits of porridge to human body, and porridge also spread to the upper nobility.

Zhou Mi, a special issue of Taiping Magnolia in Song Dynasty, canonized porridge as a national food for the first time.

There are many kinds of porridge in a dream of red mansions, each of which gives people great enjoyment. From the author's exquisite writing, we seem to see greasy white rice porridge and smell the fragrance of japonica rice.

My personal favorite is the bowl of "Biluo porridge" eaten by Baoyu, which is made of japonica rice with water, without any other modification. This bowl of porridge, like Daiyu, is natural and does not stick to the pattern. It's best not to add a little carving.

But the color of this bowl of porridge often reminds me of Miaoyu who claims to be my wife. "Bijing Rice" is called "Bijing" because it is slightly bluish white. The book describes it as "green and fragrant rice", which is like jade. Miaoyu is a lofty and narcissistic life. She often accompanied the ancient Buddha with blue lanterns, which always reminded me of the blue and white with her. If the book says that the person who eats Bijing porridge is not Baoyu, but.

Japonica rice is a kind of rice, and its porridge has the reputation of "the first tonic in the world". Japonica brown rice is more nutritious than polished rice, which can lower cholesterol and reduce the probability of heart disease and stroke. So eating japonica rice porridge often is good for your health.

In episode 45, Daiyu was completely off guard because Baochai cared about her cough with bird's nest porridge. A small bowl of porridge promotes the development of the whole plot in the book, reflecting the trend of the characters' personality, indicating that the author has a clever writing mind and a delicate grasp of human feelings and psychology.

Back to the bird's nest porridge, bird's nest is a nest built by Jin Siyan, an animal of Swift family, and many swallows of the same genus with saliva or saliva mixed with feathers. The first-class bird's nest is white and clean, and has the reputation of "Oriental Treasure"

Chinese medicine believes that bird's nest: "nourish yin and moisten dryness, replenish qi and tonify middle energizer, treat deficiency, resolve phlegm and relieve asthma." "This is why Sister Lin's cough is most suitable for eating bird's nest nourishing.

Modern medicine has found that bird's nest can promote immune function, delay human aging, prolong life, and nourish yin and moisten lung without dryness; Beauty, make skin smooth, elastic and shiny; Supplementing qi and invigorating middle energizer, promoting blood circulation, improving digestion of stomach and absorption of intestine.

Nowadays, bird's nest is undoubtedly elected as the most popular food supplement for women.

There is also a kind of porridge in a dream of red mansions, which is very precious. Even in the Mid-Autumn Festival, this kind of porridge only made a bowl for Jia Mu.

Generally speaking, rice is white, but one kind of rice is red. Redmi, also known as rouge rice, has the function of lowering blood pressure and blood lipid. Monascus K can prevent the production of cholesterol and contains many nutrients, among which iron is the most abundant, so it has the effects of enriching blood and preventing anemia.

Mrs Jia's bowl of porridge is "red rice porridge". On the evening of Mid-Autumn Festival, You Shi gave the only bowl of red rice porridge to Mrs. Jia. Grandmother Jia ate half a bowl and ordered the rest to be given to Xifeng, which showed that Grandmother Jia loved Wang Xifeng.

Red is the most important thing in A Dream of Red Mansions, and Hong Yi's son Baoyu loves red best. He likes girl rouge and wears a red coat after becoming a monk.

The description of this bowl of red rice porridge is also full of the author's complex feelings about his early luxurious life.

Thus, porridge has a long history in China, and with the development of civilization, it has continuously enriched China's food culture. A bowl of porridge can affect a huge history and people's diet concept today.

Modern people pay more attention to their own nourishment and health, and eating porridge has become the first choice for people's health. With reasonable exercise, whole grain porridge can achieve the function of slimming and strengthening the body.

In recent years, yoga, a fire sport, has successfully entered China and combined with China's concept of Yin and Yang medicine. It is mentioned that vegetarian porridge combined with yoga training is beneficial to purify the body texture and discharge the dirty waste gas in the body.

Eating porridge in the morning and evening to nourish the stomach and replenish qi is the best choice for pursuing good health. The way of keeping healthy and nourishing food in A Dream of Red Mansions is still worthy of our further study and exploration.