Speaking of this, I am reminded of an object that is very useful for people to understand what life was like for the people under the Mongol rule at that time after the Central Plains were occupied by the Mongols. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

There are many kinds of famous food in later generations, and there is a delicacy that came out when the Mongols occupied the Central Plains, and it was very famous after 900 years, called knife cut noodles! ”

The people below looked confused, how can you talk about heavy history, you turned around and ran to talk about food?

It's hard to keep up all of a sudden!

Therefore, most of the people below have the expression of eating flies while eating, and they have been brewing emotions for a while, and they think it will be a more difficult thing to accept.

Who knew that Chen Jincai would actually talk about knife noodles next!

It's as if they were holding back a big move and were about to hit it, but the opposite side was erected...... Quilt!

However, there are some shrewd people who know that every action and every sentence of Chen Jincai has his due truth.

In this regard, they just listened to it.

"Knife-cut noodles are actually a kind of noodles. That's what you call soup cakes.

It is the most representative noodle in the later generations, which can be called the best in the world, and in later generations, the noodle restaurant can be seen in even a small town all over the country.

However, the origin of this kind of food is not so good!

legend

One hundred and sixty or seventy years later, the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the divided Mongol Kublai Khan. After the Mongol Tatars invaded the Central Plains, they established the Yuan Dynasty.

There are few Mongols, but there will be some Mongol lords in all parts of the world, and the management of the Han people with a large population is very strict.

What they are most afraid of is that the Han people who are dozens or hundreds of times more numerous than them will rebel.

In order to prevent the Han from rebelling, all the iron tools of every household were confiscated, and it was stipulated that ten households should use a kitchen knife to cut vegetables and cook in turn, and then return them to the Mongolian lord for safekeeping after use.

During a certain Chinese New Year, the family was messing around eating, but in fact, there was nothing delicious, but they just used the noodles they had saved for a year to make a meal of noodles to eat, and they were touched with the joy of the New Year.

The mother-in-law mixed the dough into dough and asked the head of the family to go to the Mongols to get a knife. As a result, during the Chinese New Year, the kitchen knife that no one usually uses was taken away by others first.

The master had no choice but to return.

But the turning point of the story is here, when out of the gate of the Mongolian master, the head of the house can't borrow a knife and feel very unhappy, and he doesn't pay attention to his feet.

This is also a helpless thing, even if it is the New Year, as long as it is not snowing, the straw sandals that are usually woven are not willing to be worn, for fear of spending shoes, so it is also very common for the feet to be sloppy.

His feet were scratched and he looked down naturally, and he was stunned when he saw that what was on his feet was not a small stone, but a small piece of copper skin that fell into the crack of the stone steps in front of the door.

Which wrap the copper skin of the door.

Copper, no matter what era it is, is a valuable thing, so when the head of the house saw that there was no one around, he picked up the palm-sized copper skin and put it in his arms.

Go home!

But when he got home, he had another headache, and the water in the casserole had been boiling for a long time, and the whole family was waiting for the knife to cut the noodles to eat.

But I didn't get the knife back! The whole family is so anxious that they can't just put a big lump of noodles in the pot and cook it!

In fact, the person in charge at that time just wanted to cry, but he just wanted to eat noodles for the New Year, why was it so difficult, what happened to this world?

Especially when he saw the children crying when they looked at the dough, he was even more aggrieved to death!

Suddenly, the master remembered the copper skin of the door in his arms, and he had an idea, why don't you try it with this thing!

So he took it out of his bosom and said to his wife, "Let's cut the surface with this copper skin."

My aunt took a look at it, and the copper skin of the bag door had been hammered thin and soft, and a piece was rolled up, and it couldn't be cut.

Finally, he muttered: how can such a soft thing cut noodles.

The head of the house was helpless, he took the curved and rolled up copper skin, and tried it but it didn't work.

The copper skin is so soft that everything bends over, and it is really difficult to do the work of cutting facets.

However, sometimes a flash of inspiration can be used for a lifetime, such as the one who is in charge, he is.

He remembered that when he used a Mongolian master to cut a piece of sugar cane with a knife, he had a flash of inspiration and said that he couldn't cut the dough because the dough was too thick.

But if the cut surface is very thin, can it be cut with a shaved one?

Try it when you think of it, that's what motivates people with food.

The copper skin has been bent, but the bent copper skin also brings an advantage, that is, at the horizontal end of the bend, where it is difficult to bend again.

So the master took the copper skin in his hand and waved it gently, and then he was pleasantly surprised to find that he had cut off a thin strip of dough.

The successful results of the experiment made him overjoyed, and the happiness of having noodles to eat during the Chinese New Year is something that people who have not experienced that era will not understand.

Place the dough on a wooden board, hold it up with your left hand, hold the rolled up piece of copper in your right hand, and stand by the pot of boiling water to shave the dough.

Pieces of dough fall into the pot, cook them and put them in a bowl, pour the marinade on them for the children to eat first, and the children will swallow their tongues as soon as they eat.

In this way, one spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and spread all over the land of Jinzhong.

However, when they went to other places, the people there did not pick up the copper skin of the Baomen.

However, they found that, in fact, what knives can do, wood chips and bamboo can do.

Nine hundred years later, Pingyao, Jiexiu, Fenyang, Xiaoyi and other counties in Jinzhong will cut noodles for both men and women.

Later, this kind of knife-cut noodles spread to small vendors in society, and after many reforms, it evolved into knife-cut noodles that captured the north and south of the country 900 years later and became famous all over the world.

The knife-cut noodles are soft and hard, soft and tough, poured marinade, or fried or cold dressing, all have unique flavors, such as a little Shanxi old vinegar food is particularly wonderful. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Jin paused, looked around at everyone present, and looked at everyone in the field where thousands of dead air wind lamps shone as bright as day.

Then he said in a deep voice: "I'm talking about food now, but do you think I'm really talking about food?"

No! I'm talking about the meaning of this knife-cut noodles!

The meaning of bringing to the whole of China and the whole Han people! The significance it brings to all those who survive under such oppressive rule of the Mongols is also a great significance to all of you present and all the people of the Chinese nation in the future! ”

When he said this, the people below were in a circle, and they didn't understand why a knife-cut noodle would have such a big meaning.

Could it be that Chen Jincai is confused?

But then they all shook their heads, Chen Jin couldn't be confused, so it was themselves who were confused.

"In later generations, there was a bloody case caused by steamed buns, and during the reign of Meng Yuan, there was also a bloody case caused by a bowl of knife-cut noodles!"

(Thank you for the support of the little prince of the bastard, the death of the sorrow of frost, and the little bird I love to fly, thank you!) (To be continued.) )