Record of cold porridge

"Nakano" written by the Eastern Jin Dynasty records the Bingzhou custom, saying, "After the winter, the fire was pushed off by the intermediary for 150 days, and the cold food was dry porridge for three days, and China thought it was cold food"; "The Pearl Boat" recorded that "Liang Wudi gave porridge and wheat for cold food" in the Southern Dynasties, and the Chronicle of Jingchu at that time also contained: "Sun Chu offered sacrifices to Li and pushed the clouds:" There were two bowls of breast cheese. Today's cold food is apricot cheese porridge, which is its kind. "According to Jia Sixie's Qi Yao Min Shu, it is porridge that cooks fermented cheese. According to the introduction of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Daniel lee, a native of Yecheng, used his own capital to persuade people to collect barley and transport it to Jinyang by car in order to sell it at a good price during the Cold Food Festival. Due to the delay of the trip, I was originally ordered by Tomb-Sweeping Day to drive to Jinyang, but I was carried back to Yecheng. "Low interest, but forced by poverty, the world will laugh. "According to Cao Cao's Ming Penalty Order, people in Jinyang area are forbidden to eat cold food within 150 days after the winter solstice, and the arrival of barley trucks in Daniel lee in Tomb-Sweeping Day naturally delayed the opportunity. This story also shows that Jinyang people eat porridge at the Cold Food Festival, and barley is the main raw material for cooking porridge. Feng Zhi, a Tang Dynasty man, wrote in Yunxian Miscellanies: "The cold food festival of Luoyang people is decorated with flowers and boiled with Huayang porridge. "The Golden Gate Festival in the Song Dynasty also contained:" Luoyang people eat peach blossom porridge at the Cold Food Festival ". In fact, peach blossoms can not only cook porridge, but also cure diseases. According to the prescription provided by Cui in Compendium of Materia Medica: "On the first 1 15 Cold Food Festival, peach blossoms are harvested at the end. After eating, use half a glass of water to adjust clothes, and use it for three days. That's good. It can cure seborrhea and yellow sores on the head. "According to the Ming Dynasty's" Eight Stories of Gao Lian's Respect for the Saints ",there is a way to cook cool plum porridge:" Collect plum petals and cook porridge with ice and snow water. When the porridge is cooked, put the plum petals into the pot and start eating as soon as it rolls. "The poet Yang Chengzhai wrote the poem" Cold Plum Porridge ":"If you look at the wax, you will have a spring break, and the snow will float before you worry about your style. Eat porridge after taking off the core, and English is still good when you fall down and burn. "Dongling porridge is a high-end food for the Cold Food Festival. According to Wei Juyuan's recipes in the Tang Dynasty, there were restaurants outside the capital, Huhe City. Among them, Zhang Shoumei, a famous family, specializes in cooking a dish on holidays. In addition to aquatic products and stalls, his cold food festival specializes in winter ling porridge. In the Song Dynasty, King Zheng also mentioned "chime and go on a diet" in Fu Shan Lu, and the Cold Food Festival was named Dongling. According to the record of Guan Bai Ji in Tang Dynasty, there were officials in charge of diet and wine in Tang Dynasty. On New Year's Day, cold food and winter solstice, they specially provide food for officials with less than six products.