The Investigation on the Concepts and Forms of Ancient Diet in Lingnan Areas——On Soup,Thick Soup,Juice and Soup Dishes
Drinking soup is an indispensable daily dietary habit in modern and contemporary diet in Lingnan,and it has also evolved into a Lingnan food culture symbol with regional characteristics."Soup"contains three meanings:firstly,it means the hot water in the general sense;secondly,it includes,in broad sense,tea soup,medicine soup,rice soup,ash soup,and meat soup,etc.;thirdly,it is a soup belonging to the subdivided category of dishes,that is,the soup drunk today.In the ancient local documents of Lingnan,the first and the second kinds of"soup"appear more.Only the carp soup and donkey head gravy in Health Diet Reference Book(Yangsheng Shijian)are similar to the soup drunk today.As health care recipes,these two soups can also be regarded as the origin of a dietary form and concept of the contemporary"old fire soup".According to the literature records,ancient"soup"was more inclined to the vegetarian category in terms of dietary significance,while in the period of the Republic of China,this diet form and habit changed due to social upheaval.
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