After the buffet event of the team competition, the hot food kitchen will be followed the next day.

Unlike the buffet project, the judges of this project are only professional culinary professionals, and the audience will not have the opportunity to enter the tasting process.

But in the face of more professional judges, the difficulty of this project is naturally much higher.

Therefore, the teams from various countries came to the back kitchen early and began to prepare.

The Huaxia team was the latest team to arrive, because Li Yi played a video with Liu Yifei for several hours last night, and he overslept a little.

But everyone in the Huaxia team didn't have the slightest worry, and when they arrived at the place, they prepared by themselves without panicking at all.

Looking at Li Yi, who washed his hands and put on an apron, and came to the desk, their hearts were stable.

Li Yi personally took action, can there be any suspense in this project?

The hot dish kitchen has a theme, and the theme of this year's is "Children's Meal", with the aim of making dishes more suitable for children's tastes.

The relevant themes were announced in advance, and all participating teams were prepared in advance, and the Huaxia team was no exception.

The program does not specify the number of dishes, but based on past experience, the number of dishes should not be too small or too many.

The number of dishes is not a problem for Li Yi, if he wants to make it, the one hundred and eight Manchu and Han banquets can also be made casually.

What he wants to do is a dish that can not only have the characteristics of Chinese culture, but also stick to the theme.

But it's not difficult, when he ordered the buffet menu, he had already made the menu of the hot dish kitchen by the way.

In the buffet project, Li Yi used the 24 solar terms to order the dishes.

In the hot food kitchen, Li Yi uses the zodiac.

The 12 zodiac signs are derived from the sexagenary branch and are the figurative representation of the 12 earthly branches.

The sexagenary branch and the 24 solar terms are closely connected, both of which are traditional Chinese cultures that have lasted for thousands of years.

There are ten heavenly stems, which are A, B, C, D, E, G, G, XIN, NON, and DEC.

The twelve earthly branches, each of which is Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai.

Corresponding to the 12 zodiac signs, there are 12 kinds of rats, oxes, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs, and pigs.

While the teams were preparing, the media from various countries around them were not idle, broadcasting live broadcasts and interviews on the sidelines.

CCTV reporters were also filming the scene of Li Yi cooking.

In the live broadcast room, the audience watched Li Yi's easy movements, and they were all posting barrages and chatting happily.

"It's not easy! Finally saw Brother Yi cooking again! ”

"Those foreigner judges are so delicious, they can actually taste the dishes made by Brother Yi."

"What is this going to do? Fish? ”

"Good guy, this knife work is too good!"

Li Yi had already removed two slices of clean meat from a mandarin fish, and quickly cut out the flower knife.

The reporter is obviously also a foodie, and when he saw this, he asked: "Captain Li, are you going to be a squirrel Guiyu?" ”

"Yes."

Li Yi nodded while patting the powder.

"The first dish of the zodiac, squirrel osmanthus fish, this dish must be loved by children."

The reporter made a joke with a smile, and then said: "The zodiac is indeed the most quintessential traditional culture of our Chinese people, and I am a sheep."

This culture must have a history of at least 1,000 years, and it is definitely a treasure of our China..."

Listening to her words, Li Yi opened his mouth to remind: "It's not just a thousand years, it's at least more than two thousand years. ”

"More than 2,000 years?"

The CCTV reporter was stunned, then handed the microphone to Li Yi, and asked curiously: "Then Captain Li, do you know when the zodiac culture originated?" ”

"Nobody knows about this."

Li Yi picked up the fish that had been photographed and shook the loose powder on it, and said: "However, among the bamboo slips of the Qin Dynasty excavated in Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger Land in Hubei Province, there are records of the twelve zodiac signs.

This shows that before the Qin Dynasty, the zodiac culture appeared.

The predecessor of the zodiac was the twelve earthly branches, and the ancients divided the Zhou Tian into twelve equal parts, which were represented by the twelve branches.

On this basis, the ancients divided the stars near the ecliptic and the equator into 28 constellations, and unified them with seven stars.

In the Zhou Nakshatra, Jupiter orbits one day every twelve years, and the annual branch order can be determined from Jupiter's position.

The ancients believed that the astrological signs were closely related to the rise and fall of the world, and there were sayings such as "three-year-old, three-year-old ruined, three-year-old healthy, three-year-old drought" and "the world is six years old, six years old, one healthy".

After observation, the ancients found that the rise and fall of plants on the earth and the living environment of animals also correspond to the cycle of 12 years.

On this basis, the ancients developed a totem worship culture, hoping for the growth of the ethnic group by worshipping and sacrificing animal totems.

Therefore, some people analyze that the zodiac is the totem worshipped by the twelve large tribes in ancient times.

Among the twelve animals of the zodiac, they are divided into six animals and six beasts.

The six animals are the six kinds of domestic animals that the Chinese ancestors first raised in captivity, that is, the six kinds of horses, cattle, sheep, chickens, dogs, and pigs.

The six beasts are the six most common beasts of the Chinese ancestors, namely rats, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, and monkeys.

Over time, these twelve animals have evolved into the twelve zodiac signs by referring to the twelve earthly branches. ”

Listening to Li Yi's explanation, the audience barrage in the live broadcast room floated through countless times.

"It turns out that the inheritance of zodiac culture is so long? It feels amazing. ”

"Huh? Then I remember who said that the zodiac sign was passed from the West, is it true or false? ”

"It is said that ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, and Babylon all had similar zodiac signs, but the animals were different."

"Guo Ruomo said, he said that the zodiac originated from the zodiac signs of Babylon, and was introduced to China through the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty."

"I used to think that it was transmitted from the zodiac, but after listening to Brother Yi's explanation, I realized that we had twelve zodiac signs in the Qin Dynasty."

"Some literati like to praise the stinky feet of foreigners, which started at the time of Guo."

"Our Chinese culture is the only one that has no faults, it has been passed down from ancient times to the present, it is in the same line, it is a system, and there are traces to follow, how can it suddenly absorb Western culture and insert it into other people's zodiac signs?"

"It's nonsense from the outside, the twelve earthly branches are clearly placed there, and some people pretend not to see it."

"But then again, the eleven animals in the zodiac are all real, so why is there a dragon?"

"Yes! The ancients would not have just added a non-existent animal to come in, I think there must have been dragons in ancient times! ”

The reporter was also paying attention to the barrage in the live broadcast room, and seeing that the audience began to discuss the authenticity of the dragon, she also planned to liven up the atmosphere, so she asked Li Yi: "Captain Li, do you think the dragon exists?" ”

"Yes."

Li Yi replied without thinking.

"Huh? Are you sure? ”

The reporter was stunned for a moment, and then jokingly asked: "Is Captain Li talking about Dongfeng Citroen?" ”

"Not really."

Li Yi felt the temperature of the oil in the pot with his hands, and found that the temperature was enough, so he took the mandarin fish with a cut knife, put it in the oil pot and fried it, while explaining: "But I'm not talking about that kind of divine beast dragon, but the real prototype in history."

According to the unearthed cultural relics before the Qin and Han dynasties, the ancient dragon was actually a crocodile.

The ancient name of the crocodile is the dragon, also known as the pig dragon.

In ancient times, the Yellow River basin was rich in crocodiles, and many crocodile fossils were unearthed in Fenshui in Jin Province, which was named "Fenhe crocodile".

There are also records of crocodiles in Luoyang in the "Book of Rites".

The chronicle of the Spring and Autumn Period, the general history of the Spring and Autumn Period, "The Bamboo Book Chronicle", also recorded: "In the thirty-seventh year of King Mu of Zhou, he cut down Chu and raised nine divisions, and as for Jiujiang, he thought it was Liang than Yuanteng."

Therefore, the audience is actually right, the ancients would not casually put an unseen creature into the zodiac.

But with the development of history and the breakthrough of the imagination of the ancients, the image of the dragon has gradually evolved and slowly become what we know. ”

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