Zhang Lei, a scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, has a profound understanding of rice porridge nourishing people, and thinks that eating rice porridge every morning is the first recipe for diet nourishing. He wrote in the Story of Porridge: "Eating a big bowl of porridge every day is the best way to eat, because the stomach is weak and soft on an empty stomach, which is compatible with the stomach."
Su Dongpo, a writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, often eats rice porridge for tonic. His experience is that it is better to eat porridge at night. He said: "porridge is fast and beautiful. It's wonderful to sleep after drinking it."
The poet Lu You died at the age of eighty-six. He was deeply nourished by rice porridge, from which he realized that eating porridge is the simplest and most effective way to prolong life. He specially wrote a poem "Eating Porridge", which strongly praised: "Everyone in the world is a senior three, and I don't know how many years are in sight. I want to learn from the people and only eat porridge for the gods. "
Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica records the method of keeping in good health; Eat more japonica rice porridge. "Eat a big bowl of porridge every day. An empty stomach is empty, just make it with a grain of gas. The tonic is not fine, but it is soft and greasy. It is compatible with the stomach. It is also the most wonderful way to eat. " The best raw material for porridge is japonica rice (a kind of rice). Because of its sweet taste, it is a good medicine for strengthening the spleen and stomach and cultivating middle qi.
At the same time, related ancient books are also recorded:
(1) Bielu: "Master Qi, stop worrying and stop diarrhea." (2) "Qianjin Shi Zhi": "Flat stomach gas, long muscles."
(3) "Dream only": "Warming the middle and replenishing qi, replenishing the next yuan."
(4) "Rihuazi Herbal Medicine": "Strengthening bones and muscles and nourishing the stomach."
(5) Materia Medica of Southern Yunnan: "Treat deficiency, strengthen yin and bones, promote fluid production to quench thirst, improve eyesight and increase wisdom."
(6) "Outline": "Japonica rice porridge: facilitating urination, stopping polydipsia and nourishing the stomach. Fried rice soup: beneficial to stomach and dehumidification. "
(7) Don't record: "Bitter, flat and non-toxic."
(8) "Qianjin Dietotherapy Prescription": "It tastes hard, flat and non-toxic. The living are cold, and the burned are hot. "
(9) Seven Books of Food Classics: "Sweet taste, slightly cold."
(10) Compendium: "Northern japonica: cool, southern japonica: warm, red japonica: hot, white japonica: cool, late white japonica: cold, new japonica: hot, Chen japonica: cool."