Monday, September 27, 2010

Chinese food culture - history tableware

Food culture is proud of, is the most easily accepted by the world of a ring. Enjoy delicious food is much more sophisticated than the Chinese people have when starting from the nascent life? When to start cooking with the stove? Eat the dumplings, wonton appear? How the system evolved from the Dining sit around and eat? ... ... In is in Hong Kong "organized by the Fine Dining device - Ancient Chinese Culinary Ware" exhibition, the only answer, but also easily comprehensible understanding of Chinese food preferences and the relationship between changes in equipment.

Provided by the China National Museum of the exhibition more than 100 pieces of precious relics, the museum exhibition, said the Ministry of Research Associate, Hu Jian, the museum exhibition devoted to this topic and the preparation, organization, and exhibits on display are mostly new to Hong Kong, 10 more than the national level cultural relics, such as the Stone Age "gray Tao Fu, stoves," Sui "Golden Foot Gold Cup", the Northern Wei Dynasty "Celadon Lotus respect" and the Han Dynasty "Jointed Copper Ring," and so on.

On display in the "gray Tao Fu, stoves," is known that early and complete cooking utensils, said Hu Jian, the oldest "Grey Pottery Ding additional heap profiling" is a three-legged pot, "black pottery steamer" is the most Early in the steaming tray, lower half filled with water, said Ge, a hole in the middle compartment, on top of food. In the Paleolithic period, the man to barbecue mainly to the Neolithic period, then began boiling, steaming the way, the North eat millet, the South eat rice. A Neolithic site, "pointed ears small mouth bottle bottom" hanging ears on both sides of the rope, into the river and into the water, vase will stand up and be seen at the time fetching water is also very wise ancestors.

To the Xia, Shang, Zhou and the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period, pay attention to eating etiquette, the famous bronze process to achieve heyday, from the steamer with a combination of Ge? [, The system has been developed to bronze. In the Spring and Autumn Period, there are dumplings appear, and was beginning to understand their ancestors to eat pasta, wonton, and eat the powder. Focus on the ritual sacrifice during this period, there were many drinking vessels, such as on-site display of the "Bronze Horse Gu Shu" is the alcohol, copper? F to hold wine, and "steal song patterns in the first three feet of copper? B "The bartender was the most special is" Copper ice Kam ", ice wine appliances, built-in square cans to hold wine. Site also features the same period used the lacquer tableware imitation.
(Figure) Shadow Shadow celadon porcelain bowl injection and injection temperature and the temperature of the bowl

Han exhibits more specific for "Jointed Copper Ring", was the copper oven, the other Han buried "pottery stove", reflecting the stove when people have complete equipment, this ship's ceramic stoves in the South popular style, while the north is only a simple rectangular stoves.

Sui is the strong Chinese culture and national power during the food culture of all ethnic groups to further the exchange integration, significant increase in food variety, the establishment of schools of different diets, was already popular pupil tables, chairs, plus a rich banquet dishes, so the Dining System utensils in the form of a man turned into a more than sit around tables together in the form of food. Was focused on the lives of gorgeous, gold, silver and glassware have appeared, and the exquisite workmanship. Tableware on display in the Sui and Tang are imported from the East Rome the "Golden Foot Gold Cup." Also in the Tang Dynasty unearthed in Xinjiang, "dumplings, dim sum", dim sum, some cakes, imprinted with the surfaces into a beautiful flower shape and pattern, and dumplings with meat inside is reflected also by the Xinjiang region of the Central Plains diet.

As for the other dynasties, exhibits, more special with the Eastern Han Dynasty, "acrobatic feast Brick", the Northern Wei Dynasty "Celadon Lotus respect," Liao "lianpan Gold Cup-shaped handle," Song "video Celadon Bowl Notes and temperature" and the Qing dynasty, "Pastel Jin Lychee tureen "and so on

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