Food culture in Ming dynasty: rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea —— What folk wisdom is there in Seven Things to Open the Door?

In social life, it is diet that faces life and death. Without food, it will be difficult for human beings to survive. In thousands of years' history, the ancients in China had a unique study on diet. To sum up, how to eat well and be full is seven things: firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.

Today, the above seven things have been affecting people's daily lives. Tracing back to history, the Ming Dynasty society over 500 years ago has summed up the relevant historical experience of diet. So it is also an ancient historical behavior to cook good food now.

So how did ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty deal with the "seven things to open the door"? This requires history to answer. During the Ming Dynasty, ordinary people were already familiar with the basic rules of diet. With limited social resources, they will also create conditions to get the answers they want. It is in the process of pursuing these delicious foods that the people of the Ming Dynasty also produced folk wisdom worth learning now.