Zongzi, a kind of fried food, is also sold now. After frying, it is light yellow, slightly dark in color, and it is "arm wrapped with gold", like a hand button, crisp and delicate. The northern prickly heat is mainly wheat flour, while the southern prickly heat is mainly rice flour. Its color is Huang Liang, which is displayed in layers, light and beautiful, crispy and delicious. There are many places, such as Xuzhou dumplings mentioned above, which are named after the shape of butterflies and have salty taste, as well as Jining dumplings, Tengzhou dumplings, Huai 'an tea dumplings and so on.
What is a cold? Is it a common prickly heat in the north? The popular explanation now is: cold utensils, also called cakes. It can be stored for several months in winter and spring, and used as dry food when cold food is forbidden, so it is called cooler. Legend has it that it originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Because fire is forbidden in the Cold Food Festival, people invented this kind of food instead of meals, so it is called a cold food utensil. Later, it gradually evolved into a pastry. The Cold Food Festival was originally because the third month of the lunar calendar is the most popular time. To prevent fire, it is forbidden to eat cold food.
However, the prohibition of cold food among the people is mostly considered to commemorate mesons. Meson Tui is Jin Wengong Zhong Er's confidant. When Jin Wengong took refuge in politics, Jiezitui followed him all the time and gave him a stock to save Jin Wengong from hunger. After Jin Wengong came to power, he did not put forward mesons. Meson push is also hidden in the mountains. Jin Wengong pushed meson out of the north, released Yamakaji, and meson tui and his mother were burned to death. Jin Wengong was very sad about it, so he ordered not to make a fire on May 5th.
"The song of the south. Evocation said: "Honey bait is a bit ugly. Zhu once commented on this, saying: "The cake is also called a cream ring, and it is also called a cold weapon. In Yuan Jian Han Lei, the official publication of the Qing Dynasty. Food department. Zipei: "Zipei, fried with honey and rice flour, can be stored for several months in winter and spring, and can be used when smoking is prohibited in the refrigerator." All kinds of things seem to show that the cold utensils are the prickly heat mentioned in Su Dongpo's poems. However, it has been controversial since the Tang Dynasty, and it is also a case-solving in the history of China's ancient diet.
There is also an interesting story about cold weapons in history. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a general named Huan Xuan who liked to display paintings and calligraphy on weekdays. Once, a guest went to get a book without washing his hands after eating cold tableware, and accidentally stained the book. Since then, Huan Xuan no longer supplies cold food utensils to its guests.
Later, "Huan Xuan cold oil" became a special term, which is worth many people to see the stains left by various calligraphy and painting. Later generations often quote it to ridicule, such as Su Shi's "Where did this book come from?" It was written by Huan Xuan in cold oil. Lu You has "painters have no cold hands, monks have storytelling" and so on. Judging from this allusion, cold weapons, whether prickly heat or not, are at least fried and may be a little sweet.
Another way of saying this is to guess that the cold weapon should refer to the crispy honey food eaten on Valentine's Day in ancient China. For example, Du Fu in the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem "Doing Good". In addition, Qi Shu Yao Min in the Northern Wei Dynasty also said that its name is Huanbing, and it is necessary to mix noodles with honey because "flour and noodles are twisted into a rope like a ring". If there is no honey, you can also get cow and sheep cream by boiling dates to get juice. It's beautiful, crisp and good to make cakes with cow's and sheep's milk. "In this way, it may be cold food utensils or other kinds of pasta. It may still be full of twists and turns! Of course, this is just a joke. I didn't verify it.
Lin Hong also made some inferences in Shan Jiaqing's confession. According to the sentence in "Songs of the South", that is, "there are some rotten honey bait", it is speculated that there should be three kinds of food mentioned here, that is, dried honey noodles and baked in October, that is, sesame cakes.
Fujian people have a kind of food called fried feed, which is made of glutinous rice flour and flour, then fried and finally poured with sugar. If you don't wash your hands and take other things after eating, it will stain the goods, and it can be stored for more than a month, which is suitable for the Cold Food Festival where fireworks can't be put off. Its ancestor, Mr. Lin Hejing, also said in "Cold Food in a Mountain Residence": "When you first taste cold utensils, follow martial arts and disperse the secluded classics." The ancestors read a lot of books and learned a lot, so this should be a cold weapon. Of course, this is Lin Hong's opinion.
To sum up, from ancient times to the present, what everyone can agree with is cold food utensils, a very old food, namely fried noodles, which will be seasoned with honey. Maybe it has a longer history, or maybe it is the ancestor of China fried noodles. But in any case, a simple noodle can go through thousands of years and evolve into ever-changing fried noodles. Many poets in the past dynasties wrote poems for him, and people who read widely also made various textual researches for him. I have to say that this is also a reflection of the charm and strong vitality of Chinese culture.