To warm up your winter——Soup

Origin

     Soup has a long history. Since ancient times, people have known that eating vegetable soup. According to archaeologists'excavations, people in the eastern region learned to cook soup between 8000 BC and 7000 BC. Since pottery was not produced at that time, people boiled food into the pit, dug a pit on the ground, spread animal skins, made a pit, put water and food to be cooked, and then set fire near the pit, burned two stones and put them into the pit, until the water boiled the food and boiled it into soup to drink. At the same time, foreign historians found in archaeological studies that human beings had made a kind of vegetable sheltered broth, which was packed in leather water bags and heated by hot stones before drinking. This peculiar method of drinking has existed for a long time among American Indians. According to records, in the ancient Greek Olympic Games, each participant took a goat or calf to the temple of Zeus, first placed on the altar of Zeus for a memorial service, then slaughtered according to the traditional ceremony, and cooked in a big pot. Cooked meat was eaten separately from non-contestants, suggesting that at that time, people knew that soup was the most nutritious of cooked foods.

    According to historians, the oldest cookbook in the world was discovered in China in the 2700 B.C. There are more than ten soup dishes in this recipe. One of them has been used until now, that is "pigeon egg soup", which is called "silver sea hanging golden moon" in the recipe. The recipes of Chinese emperors can be regarded as the great achievement of Chinese food and Chinese soup. Empress Dowager Ci Xi is the most famous gourmet in Chinese history. Eight Royal chefs make soup for her. Her favorite soup is "chicken velvet and duck tongue soup", which is made of chicken, duck tongue, shredded ham, abalone, dried shellfish and so on. Princess Deling once wrote in her book

that "this old Buddha seems to have an indissoluble bond with duck tongue soup all his life."

National famous soup

    Soup has a magic, that is, no matter how rich a meal is, soup, as the most wonderful dish, will always be very prominent in people's memory. Soup is generally hot, but very few people like to drink cold soup, such as Spain. Every country has its own favorite soup. According to the book "Recipe Complete" of the United States, there are more than 1,000 kinds of delicious soups in the world. Some countries are famous for their soups: Russian borscht; Italian thick gravy vegetable soup boiled with green beans and macaroni as seasoning; Spanish chicken bean sprout soup; German beer boiled with fish, meat eggs and vegetables. Soup and fish soup with distillers grains; curry soup in Britain and India; lemon omelet soup in Greece; snake soup in Korea; Sommy soup in Japan; onion soup in France; onion soup with many veal veins, covered with ground cheese, and baked until the cheese turns into a golden skin. In addition, cream Clams Soup is also one of the famous soup in France. The United States consumes more than 30 billion bowls of soup each year, ranking first in the world, and chicken noodle soup is America's favorite canned soup. At the end of the 19th century, American chemist John Dolans added water to the canned soup made by Joseph Campbell Canning Company and heated it to be edible. According to the survey, the United States sold nearly 4 billion canned soup in 1995. Soup seems to have become a typical representative of the catering culture in all countries. When you taste these different flavors, you can also taste its peculiar charm.

Function

     Every nationality has rich experience with the benefits of soup. Many people think that "soup" is the cheapest, and that it is an effective health insurance. Japanese believe that "seaweed soup" has a good medical effect, until now, Japanese women still have the habit of drinking this soup after childbirth. Japanese sumo wrestlers eat a large bowl of "shujin soup" with cattle and mutton every day after big sports, and say their "power" trick is to drink soup. People in the Mediterranean and North African countries use Garlic Soup to fight disease. In Korea, drinking snake soup is believed to improve sexual function and prolong life and cure neurosis. Scottish people think that the best way to treat a cold is to drink onion sparrow soup. Vietnamese value Yanpan soup; many families in the United States also believe that soup can keep fit and prevent diseases, of which chicken soup is the most effective. Because chicken soup is nutritious, tasty and refreshing. The nutrients in chicken soup are small amounts of water-soluble small molecular proteins, fats and inorganic salts dissolved from chicken oil, chicken meat, and chicken bones. The protein content in the soup is only about 7% of chicken meat, and the chicken oil in the soup is mostly saturated fatty acid because many rehabilitation hospitals and sanatoriums in the United States use chicken soup as one of the "partial prescriptions" for treatment.

    William, a composer in Italy, once said that his creative inspiration came from drinking chicken soup. All kinds of "dietetic soup" are spread throughout China. Such as crucian carp soup, cuttlefish soup, pigeon broth conducive to the convergence of wounds, brown sugar and ginger soup can be published to dispel cold, mung bean soup Xiaoliang Jie Department, radish soup Xiaoshi ventilation, black fungus soup Mingmu, white fungus soup tonifying Yin, raw fish soup can recall the wound healing after surgery, Shenqi hen soup can cure the deficiency of the body, Huanghua crucian carp soup can cure. Postpartum milk is insufficient, pork rib soup can treat senile osteoporosis, rice soup can treat infant dehydration, cucumber soup can reduce weight, beauty, asparagus soup can fight cancer, hypotension, shrimp skin, and tofu soup can strengthen bone, promote children's growth and development, etc. In the daily diet, many people have their favorite soup. The Chinese people's beloved Premier Zhou likes to drink dried vegetable soup from his hometown very much. Every time he travels southward before his death, he has to drink a bowl whenever he has the chance. Mr. Ma Xulun, a well-known patriotic national master, not only liked to drink soup but also created "Mr. Ma's soup" by himself. Besides contributing to human health and treating general diseases, soup cannot reduce the incidence of some malignant diseases. According to a survey by Hirayama Hiroshi, Minister of Epidemiology of the National Cancer Center of Japan, people who often drink soup (a kind of soup that Japanese often drink) die of bone cancer, cirrhosis of the liver and heart disease at a very low rate. From this, we can clearly see that soup is a "cheap health insurance" for human beings.