Again, Zhang Hong was the first to pick it up and taste it. He carefully poured it into the bowl without pouring too much, and drank it in one gulp.
Then his eyes lit up.
"Sweet!"
Of course it is sweet, but the sweetness at this time is actually very different from the sweetness of later generations, but for people of this era, it is still extremely difficult to taste.
If you want to eat sweets, the most convenient way is to find three places, the first is the fruit tree, the second is the bee nest, and the third is the bear's nest.
The first two may not be so easy to find, but as long as you find the third, you can basically find the first two, and you don¡¯t have to worry about bees chasing and killing them. Therefore, in ancient times, there were many "bear-slayer warriors" .
Not only to kill the big bear, but also to occupy his honey and take away his fruits.
?Compared to the Southwest Hospitality Gouxiong Cave that everyone passed by before, it can be seen that the hospitable Gouxiong is indeed very poor. There is only clear water and no honey at home, but now it has moved
"what is this?"
Zhang Hong felt as if ten raccoons were scratching in his heart, while Yan Zai patted the clay pot: "This is cane pulp, also called Zhu Zhe."
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, caramel was made, and the main raw material was wheat, because during the period from Emperor Ku to Yao, wheat spread from Asia Minor to the Central Plains, and was quickly cultivated in the north. By the time of the Western Zhou Dynasty, wheat was already very common. Grain, even once replaced the position of an unlucky egg in the five grains
"Zhou Yuan is sloppy, pansy tea is like sweets" is an ancient poem in "The Book of Songs".
In the south, it is not easy to grow wheat and rice, so the clever Chu people found something called "Zhuzhe", which is wild sugarcane, and because there is no human cultivation, the sugarcane at this time is sweet. The taste is not that great
However, after squeezing the juice, the sugarcane pulp actually tastes pretty good, and the nobles of the Chu State liked it. From this time on, there was a practice of cultivating sugarcane in Chu, but not much. After all, in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, grain Basically, most of the fields have to be planted as grains. It is impossible to leave too much arable land for sugar cane, and there is another point, that is, sugar cane is too easy to obtain.
So the act of planting sugar cane is only done by a small number of people.
There is a saying in "Calling the Soul" in the Songs of Chu: "There is some Zhe pulp for the turtle and the lamb."
The real big white sugar only appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and it was turbid. Refined white sugar was not until the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, rich people had to use two cups of ghee and white sugar to boil milk for drinking.
The life of the people in the Warring States period was actually not as good as that of the three generations in many cases. Here it only refers to common people and even slaves, not to the class above the scholar.
Advanced development belongs to the upper class, such as plows and ox plows, which obviously appeared very early, but at the end of the Warring States period, Zhao Guo even said that the important factor that Zhao could not beat Qin was Qin's vigorous and extensive promotion of ox plows tool, but Zhao Guo couldn't do it
An important reason is privatization and class separation. A large amount of wealth and resources are concentrated in the hands of the nobles. What is distributed to the lowly people is only the most basic standard of survival. The nobles will not let others share resources with themselves. As for their It's another story if the little head is thinking about the interests.
In the third generation period, because it was a common world, the resources of the leader were not much different from those of the tribe, and everyone had a positive expectation to work together, so the ancient ballads at this time can obviously reflect many things.
Just take the scene shown in "The Song of Hitting the Land". Until the beginning of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, there were basically not many common people who could have such a leisurely and comfortable time. This is also an important reason why Confucius and the others praised the ancient sage kings.
"Sugar cane is a common thing in the south, but the taste of dry nibbling is not too sweet (in the current era), so after squeezing it into juice, it is what you taste now, although it is worse than stone honey, ah, it is The ones that look like bamboo"
Before Yan Zai finished speaking, Zhang Hong interrupted him immediately!
"It's very good, it's already very good! I know what plant you're talking about! So it's white? Ah!"
Zhang Hong laughed loudly: "Every place has different names for these plants and trees. The sugarcane and Zhuzhe you mentioned are the whites we call them there!"
"In the Lunzhe Mountains in the south, there is a tree that looks like a grain tree, with red veins, and the sap that flows out is sweet. People will not feel hungry after eating it, and it can also relieve fatigue. It is called white?."
Yan Zai was also taken aback for a moment, the south is indeed the place where sugarcane grows, but after hearing this, it turns out that there are also large tracts of sugarcane forests growing in the further south.At this time Zhang Hong was already eager to try, and had already planned that if he left and returned to the South China Sea, he would cut down the mountains and cut sugar cane, but his idea was just an idea, after all, the Chifang family seemed to have something better that they hadn't come up with yet.
There was not much cane pulp, and several people tasted it and agreed, but at this time, everyone was staring at the last clay pot.
It's like a mysterious lottery draw, the first ones are all good things, and the last one won't be broken, right?
The expectations are already full.
Tofu, oily soybean skin, and cane pulp not only mobilized everyone's enthusiasm for grain planting, but also made everyone understand new sugar source plants. It is conceivable that sugarcane will definitely be planted from then on.
Compared to fighting with swarms of bees at the risk of being stung to death, or being a bear warrior, it is easier to get syrup by chopping immovable sugarcane. Isn't this easier?
Yan Zai did not keep everyone waiting, and the last clay pot was opened.
A black liquid, quietly rides in it.
"vinegar?"
The people around looked at each other, but someone moved their nose: "No, this smell is not vinegar."
"It's soy sauce."
"Soy sauce? Isn't it meat sauce?"
Vinegar and sauce have been brewed before, and after three years of work, after the operation of several small partners in the mill, vinegar and sauce meat have also become the most popular agricultural products of Akakata, and this time the so-called "soy sauce" is it?
"The raw material of this thing is still the bean!"
As Yan Zai said, he was even more emotional: "Come on, everyone, have a taste. Zhang Hong can cut a piece of tofu and dip it in."
So Zhang Hong imitated the way Yan Zai said. When he put the steamed tofu dipped in soy sauce into his mouth, he froze for a while, and then let out an earth-shattering roar!
"This, this is the natural law of the world!"
Oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar are all ready to go now, and the hot southern life is about to turn a new page!
The times and years have slowly entered the next small stage, which is the "copper cooking period" of diet development!
Cook the five flavors with oil, and make a big pot!
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