Stew is a standard secondary word in modern Chinese. It is pronounced wēi in Mandarin and first appeared in Shuowen. In Liu Shu, the basic meaning of pictophonetic word "stew" is to burn things to ashes with torches, such as stewed sweet potatoes, and the extended meaning is to stew them slowly with small fire, such as stewed beef. In daily use, "simmer" is also often used as a verb to indicate dryness. Dry and wet, dry and wet.
Interpretation of ancient books:
Kangxi dictionary:
The rhyme of the Tang Dynasty will be deleted, the rhyme will be deleted, and the rhyme will be deleted. Say a pen fire. There is fire in the jade pot. Six books are so hot in the fire. Guangyun simmered the fire. Set the rhyme and simmer. The warring States policy made white blades and simmered charcoal. Another name. Xian Di at the end of the Han Dynasty was a place in the middle of the post-Han Dynasty. Not rhyme, heavy voice. Livestock fire is also.
Explain the text with words: fire in the basin, fear of fire, black ash cut.
Note: (simmer) the fire in the basin, and make a fire in the jade basin. Guangyun said that if you bury something in the ash, it will be cooked. In popular words, the ashes are called simmer, and there is no such word as simmer. Today, it is said that winter leisure flowers are called Tang with sparks, that is, simmering words, staying away from fire, fearing sound, cutting black and gray, and fifteen parts.
Combination of stewing: such as stage stewing, scorched stewing, ember stewing, cannon stewing, stewing, dust stewing, scorched stewing, dry stewing to avoid dampness, dry stewing to remove dampness, and pot stewing.
Simmer, simmer, simmer, simmer, simmer, simmer, simmer, simmer.