[Explanation] From July 27th to 28th, the first "Song and Yuan Sea Silk Banquet" and the Hokkien Cuisine Inheritance and Creativity Competition was held in Shishi City, Quanzhou, Fujian Province. Nearly 100 chefs from 10 local catering groups participated.
The competition aims to dig deeper into Lin Hong's gourmet monograph "Shan Jia Qing Su" in the Southern Song Dynasty and the food culture of the Song Dynasty, restore and innovate the representative dishes with the connotation of the sea silk and the aesthetic characteristics of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and form a "Song and Yuan Sea Silk Banquet" with the characteristics of stone lions. .
[Concurrent] Contestant Hu Zeliang
One of our bases is based on a "Shanjia Qingyi" written by Lin Hong, a stone lion (gourmet) in the Southern Song Dynasty, and we did a restoration.
According to what he said about an ingredient, we may be saying that we will make some flavors that are more suitable for modern people to eat, and then make an original ingredient that is combined with a modern taste and a modern cooking technique.
[Explanation] Located on a peninsula surrounded by the sea on three sides, Shishi people were born to the sea. During the long process of foreign economic and cultural exchanges, they formed a food culture that combines ancient and modern, and integrates Chinese and Western food culture.
Among them, "Mountain Family Clearance" written by Lin Hong, a gourmet from the Southern Song Dynasty, is known as one of the earliest recipes in Chinese history, including royal banquets, scholar-official diets, market diets, and health diets. Nostalgia in Southern Fujian" is a master of folk recipes in the Song Dynasty.
[Same period] Ye Mingfu, a member of the restoration expert group of the "Song and Yuan Sea Silk Banquet", a Fujian Cuisine Master
Mainly from the book "Shanjia Qingyi", and then to find some dishes that can be combined with our southern Fujian culture and Shishi culture to make a restoration.
Then one of our highest standards is to highlight the aspects of cleanliness, elegance and rhythm as a standard for choosing these dishes.
Then we will also absorb some factors of our stone lions, and then go to find more than a dozen dishes from ancient books, and then make this restoration, and make it into a complete Song banquet.
[Explanation] It is understood that 8 of the 16 dishes in the "Haisi Banquet of Song and Yuan Dynasties" were selected and refined according to the records of "Shanjia Qing Offering", which combined the characteristics of the food culture of the Song Dynasty and the ingredients, condiments and regional characteristics of southern Fujian. Cooking methods.
To this end, the expert group reviewed a large number of Chinese food culture history, Song and Yuan Dynasty food culture history, southern Fujian and Shishi local food culture materials, and conducted rigorous textual research and field research.
[Same period] Ye Mingfu, a member of the restoration expert group of the "Song and Yuan Sea Silk Banquet", a Fujian Cuisine Master
There are a total of 104 records of some dishes in the Song Dynasty in the entire "Shanjia Qingyi".
Then our expert group has done some refinement of a work that has almost several rounds of screening and restoration.
Then these dishes are themselves, they belong to a category of our Fujian cuisine, and they are of great help to the improvement of our Fujian cuisine and the improvement of our Fujian cuisine.
I also hope that these things can finally help to say a development of our Hokkien cuisine.
[Concurrent] Xu Xiaochun, a member of the recovery expert group of the "Song and Yuan Sea Silk Banquet", a researcher of Fujian cuisine culture
When we deconstructed the entire book "The Mountain Family Clearance", we saw that there are many elements in it, one is the royal banquet in the palace, the other is the diet of scholars and officials, the diet of our market, and we have been advocating since the Song Dynasty. This kind of health preservation is also a very simple way of eating. Another very important thing is that there is our "Southern Fujian Nostalgia" in the book.
"Song and Yuan Haisi Banquet" is based on a very deep historical heritage. In addition, it also stands at the height of the prosperity of Fujian cuisine, so it can be said to be a model for building cultural confidence in Fujian cuisine.
Reported by Ke Ning Hong Ruoqi from Quanzhou, Fujian
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]