What food did Su Shi, a gourmet in Song Dynasty, taste?

Su Shi, a gourmet in Song Dynasty, once tasted Dongpo meat.

Dongpo meat:

Dongpo meat is also called rolled meat and braised pork. It is a traditional famous dish of Han nationality in Jiangnan area, belonging to Zhejiang cuisine and Sichuan cuisine, with pork as the main ingredient.

The main components and shapes of Dongpo meat are similar. The main ingredient is half-fat and half-thin pork, which is stewed with ingredients. The finished dish is neatly packed mahjong tiles, bright red agate color, soft but not rotten, fat but not greasy.

Dongpo Meat is said to have been created by Su Shi, a poet of the Northern Song Dynasty (a native of Meishan City, Sichuan Province) (it is said that Wang Chaoyun, the concubine of Su Shi, created it to improve her diet when Su Shi was exiled to Huangzhou), and its earliest birthplace was Meishan, Sichuan Province. The prototype is Xuzhou Hui meat, which is one of the four treasures of Dongpo in Xuzhou.

According to legend, in April of the tenth year of Xining in Song Shenzong (1077), Su Shi went to Xuzhou as the magistrate. On July 7, the Yellow River burst in Caocun, Zhuozhou. By August 2 1 day, Xuzhou was surrounded by floods, and the water level was as high as 20 feet. Su Shi died himself, joined the Dutch army, led the imperial barracks, and built dikes to protect the city with the people of the whole city.

After more than 70 days and nights of hard work, Xuzhou City was finally saved. Everyone in the city is very happy. In order to thank the well-led and well-known people, they died together with the people of Xuzhou, killing pigs and sheep in succession and bringing wine and vegetables to the government to comfort them.

Su Shi can't refuse. After accepting it, he personally instructed his family to cook braised pork and gave it back to those who participated in the flood control. People all think that the meat is fat but not greasy, crispy and delicious, which is unanimously called "ritual meat". Since then, "back meat" has spread all over Xuzhou and become a traditional dish in Xuzhou. This is recorded in Xuzhou Literature and History Materials, Xuzhou Scenery Records and Xuzhou Ancient and Modern Famous Cuisine.

In the third year of Yuanfeng (A.D. 1080), on February 1st, Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou, where he served as the deputy envoy. He cultivated the land by himself, so he called this place "Dongpo lay man". This is the origin of "Dongpo Meat". During his stay in Huangzhou, he personally cooked braised pork and wrote his own experience as "Eating Meat Poetry".

Sushi's braised pork in Xuzhou and Huangzhou has only local influence and is not well-known in the whole country. The braised pork, which is really famous all over the country, is Su Shi's "Dongpo pork" when he was in Hangzhou for the second time.

Su Shi:

Su Shi was born in Meishan, Meizhou (now Meishan City, Sichuan Province), a native of Luancheng, Hebei Province, a writer, calligrapher, gourmet, painter and historical water control celebrity in the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the second year of Jiayou (1057), Su Shi took part in the second division of palace examination and was selected as a scholar. In the sixth year of Jiayou (106 1), he entered the third class of Chinese medicine and was awarded the judge of Fengxiang House in Dali. Song Shenzong has worked in Hangzhou, Mizhou, Xuzhou and Huzhou. In the third year of Yuanfeng (1080), he was demoted to be the permanent assistant ambassador of Huangzhou because of Wutai poetry case.

After Song Zhezong acceded to the throne, he served as a bachelor of Hanlin, a bachelor of reading and a minister of rites, and was well known in Hangzhou, Yingzhou, Yangzhou and Dingzhou. In his later years, he was exiled to Huizhou and Danzhou because of the ruling of the New Party. Song Huizong was granted amnesty and returned to the north, where he died. Song Gaozong posthumously awarded a surname; Song Xiaozong pursues "Wen Zhong".

Su Shi was a literary leader in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, and made great achievements in poetry, ci, writing, calligraphy and painting. Vertical and horizontal text; Poetry has a wide range of themes, fresh and healthy, uses exaggerated metaphors and has a unique style. Also known as "Su Huang" with Huang Tingjian. The word is bold and unconstrained, and both Xin Qiji are representatives of bold and unconstrained, and they are also called "Su Xin";

Prose writing is rich and unrestrained, and he is also called "Ou Su" with Ouyang Xiu, and is one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties". Su Shi's good book, one of Song Sijia; He is good at literati painting, especially ink bamboo, strange stones and dead wood. His works include Seven Chapters of Dongpo, Dongpo Yi Zhuan, Dongpo Yuefu, Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stone Map, Strange Stone Map of Dead Trees, etc.