Video spoilers history, starting with the blitzkrieg on Poland

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Outside the sky.

Cao Cao saw this and had to admit:
"The sky curtain is exaggerating though."

“But it’s not completely unreasonable.”

"After all, in the pre-Qin era, it was not developed enough."

"It's true that the food there can't be compared to later generations. But the Han Dynasty today is much better."

"Even if it can't be compared with later generations, it's not bad, right?"

And the ancient people in the pre-Qin period.

They looked at each other in silence.

The sky continues.

【Eating dog meat is still popular nowadays.】

[But most people probably wouldn’t think that wolf meat was once a common meat for ancient people.]

【And we have to take note. 】

【The ancients always liked to dip their food in meat sauce. 】

[This is definitely not because the ancient people had a strong taste, but because the quality of salt in ancient times was too poor, and the rough salt particles were really hard to swallow. ]

[Not to mention compared with modern refined salt. ]

[Even compared to industrial salt, it is far inferior. ]

[Since salt was difficult to swallow, meat sauce became a common choice for the ancients at that time. ]

[According to statistics, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were more than 150 types of meat sauce. ]

[In addition to the usual beef, mutton and pork sauce. ]

[All kinds of strange foods such as mutton sauce, toad sauce, ant sauce, etc. were made into sauces and became the recipes of ancient people. 】

[It was mainly because there was too little reliable food at the time. ]

【So you can try anything. 】

[Food like cattle, sheep, and pigs are the top tributes that can only be taken out during sacrifices to the ancestral temple, and are called Tailao! ]

[Just by looking at the name, you can tell how high the status of cattle, sheep and pigs as tributes was at that time. ]

[Even aristocratic families cannot afford to eat beef, mutton and pork every meal]

[Some ingredients can be used as diplomatic gifts. ]

[For example, the King of Chu once gave a large turtle to Duke Ling of Zheng.]

[Duke Ling of Zheng took it and used it to make soup.]

[As a result, a minister under Duke Ling of Zheng went to the palace to do some work and found that Duke Ling of Zheng did not offer him soup.]

【So I got angry! 】

[He just put his finger into the turtle soup, took a sip and drank it.]

[This is also the origin of the word "get involved".]

[As a minister, I would rather lose my temper with the king than drink a mouthful of turtle soup.]

[It is enough to show how precious these delicious foods were at that time. ]

[Not only is the food hardcore, but the utensils used to eat are also hard. 】

[Men in the Shang and Zhou dynasties all used bronze utensils to eat.]

[The heavy metal content is basically exceeded. ]

[It's nothing.]

[Due to the limited smelting technology, it is common to have a mouthful of bronze slag when swallowing it in one gulp. ]

[Just ask you guys whether you are hard or not? 】

……

After introducing the pre-Qin, Shang and Zhou periods, Tianmu began to introduce the Tang and Song periods.

Song Huizong saw that his time had come.
He said confidently:

"In the pre-Qin and even Jin dynasties, their food was really not that good."

"But in the Tang Dynasty, as exchanges between the Western Regions and the mainland became more frequent, so many new ingredients were introduced, and the quality of the cuisine improved significantly."

"In the era of our Great Song Dynasty?"

"Haha, the delicacies from the mountains and seas of the Song Dynasty would definitely be top-notch even in later generations."

The marquee continues to play.

At the beginning, it is acknowledged that the level of recipes improved greatly during the Tang and Song dynasties.

[In fact, starting from the Han Dynasty, the ancient people's eating standards have been rapidly improved. ]

【Especially after the Tang Dynasty, there was a qualitative leap.】

[Let’s take a look at the menu of the top banquet in the Tang Dynasty - "Shaowei Banquet Menu". ]

[Single cage golden milk cake (butter cake)

Ju Sheng Nu (fried noodles with black sesame, cheese and honey)

Brahman light noodles, raw 24 qi wontons, double mixed square broken cakes, bright shrimp moxibustion, sweet snow, etc.

[This menu is a feast presented to Emperor Zhongzong of Tang when Wei Juyuan was promoted to Shangshu Ling in the Tang Dynasty.]

[It records some of the dishes, 58 in total.]

[As you can see, not only is the quantity abundant, but the key is that the ingredients and cooking methods have also been improved in quality, and the overall look is quite sophisticated. ]

[It is already at a level that we modern people can accept. ]

[Even a few of the dishes are still considered delicious even today.]

This is where the show ends.

In conjunction with the Tang Dynasty style food clips given in the picture.

Those ancient delicacies from the mountains and the sea attracted the admiration and envy of many modern netizens. But after a round of praise, Tianmu continued.

[Although the chefs in the Tang Dynasty had very high cooking skills. ]

[However, it was limited by the transportation capacity and preservation level in ancient times. ]

[As a result, the food in the Tang Dynasty—even the daily food of the high officials and nobles. ]

[It is not that rich. ]

[Most of the nobles also ate common poultry, livestock, local vegetables and fruits, etc. ]

What are the off-season vegetables?

[Don’t even think about it! ]

[You can’t eat the specialties of places a little further away. 】

[We all know the story of a horseman riding a red dust horse and making the concubine smile, but no one knows that it was the lychees coming.]

【But we can see that when the state machinery was used and the emperor gave the order himself. 】

[Even the most favored imperial concubine has to look forward to lychees! ]

[For other ordinary wealthy families who want to eat lychees, at least fresh lychees, that is out of the question.]

[You can only eat salted lychees...]

[The taste is probably not very good. ]

[It is precisely because of the contradiction between the chefs’ increasingly advanced cooking skills and the relatively limited availability of ingredients. ]

[This led to the chefs in the Tang Dynasty making infinite progress in their cooking skills and figuring out a variety of different ways to eat it.]

[For example, Wu Zetian's male favorite Zhang Yizhi liked to eat duck. ]

[So he designed a cage, put the duck in the cage, filled the basin next to the cage with sauce, and then began to heat it slowly over a low fire. The duck felt thirsty, so it drank the sauce in the basin next to it.]

【Give yourself some flavor. 】

[When the duck is finally cooked to death, there is basically no need to add any more seasoning. ]

【This method is called five-flavor duck. 】

Netizens complained a lot.

"In fact, the lychees that Yang Guifei ate were not from Lingnan, but from Sichuan, which is not too far away."

"Salted lychees are delicious."

"Only ducks know how to eat ducks."

"Duck: We are of the same origin, why are we so eager to fight each other?"

"Competitors are enemies."

《Cannibalism.》

"The ducks are making things difficult for each other, which makes me laugh to death."

"This five-flavor duck is not bled or processed, it is just luxury, it is useless, haha."

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The sky continues.

[In the Song Dynasty, the rich ate more fancy food.]

[A cook in Cai Jing's mansion got married. Her husband heard that she used to help make dumplings in the kitchen.]

【So I asked the cook to make a portion of Cai Jingfu buns. 】

【The cook said she couldn’t do it. 】

[Because she was in the residence of Grand Tutor Cai, and was responsible for carving patterns on the green onions in the buns.]

【Not only the dignitaries like Cai Jing, but also the ordinary citizens of the Song Dynasty, their diets also made great progress. 】

[The Song Dynasty liked to have morning tea. At that time, the citizens of Kaifeng liked the morning tea made with tea leaves, mung beans, musk and other ingredients.]

[Yes, musk, a precious material sold by the gram today.]

【It was a consumer product for the common people in the Northern Song Dynasty. 】

[Shrimp, crab and the like were also very common in the Song Dynasty. ]

[Crabs, in particular, were an important source of food for poor people to fill their stomachs and supplement their nutrition during the Song Dynasty.]

[Because crabs were so cheap, when ordinary people in the Song Dynasty ate crabs, many of them only ate the crab roe and not the crab meat.]

[Because there are crabs everywhere, there is no need to eat crab meat. 】

[This situation of using crabs as cheap food to fill the stomach continued until modern times.]

[In 1948, during the Great Depression, the people in the Wuyue region could not afford rice due to rising prices, and could only eat hairy crabs to barely fill their stomachs.]

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Barrage:

《Wow! Scallion shreds?》

《A great onion master! 》

"The most important thing about the Song Dynasty was the invention of the stir-frying technique."

"No wonder musk is so expensive nowadays, maybe people in the Song Dynasty ate it all?"

"Shanghai citizens eating hairy crabs to satisfy their hunger in 1945.jpg."

"Poor people have no money to eat, so they can only eat hairy crabs to fill their stomachs."

"My high school teacher said that when he was a child, he didn't eat shrimps and crabs from the seaside because there were too many and he got tired of them."

"My dad said that when he was a kid, he would just touch and play with shrimps and crabs, and would not eat them even if they were thrown away because they would waste firewood."

"My grandmother said that when I was a kid, I didn't have enough to eat, so I ate hairy crabs."

"I envy the freedom of the people in the Song Dynasty to eat hairy crabs."

"If you are jealous, buy a crab without adding cooking wine, ginger, onion and garlic, and try how it tastes." (End of this chapter)