Chapter 2164: Travels at 1st sensation
Rich experience and detailed information made Eriksson’s "South China Travel Notes" a big hit. With a large number of chapters, passionate language, he described China’s endless wealth, huge commercial city, and excellent transportation facilities. , As well as the gorgeous palace buildings and well-organized city streets and houses, impressed readers.
There are many people who have written Chinese travel notes before, but they are too tall and out of touch with society.
Eriksson described life in the city, it has a great smell of human fireworks, and he is especially good at writing about the food and drink of the South Chinese people, because he is a glutton and a big food!
For example, he has a long chapter describing the scene of his delicious taste at the night market of Rising Sun City, and even hesitated to use his dividends!
During the stay of the "Gothenburg" in South China, the crew were paid according to their wages, but it was impossible for them to squander, and Eriksson was no exception. Salary alone was not enough.
Fortunately, he took a share in the goods on the "Gothenburg". After selling the goods, he paid dividends in advance, so that he could pay for the meals.
So he feasted his mouth, and the readers swallowed wildly!
Rising Sun City is a city of immigrants. The people come from all over the world of Ming Dynasty. Most of them are from southern Fujian. Their meals include: fried oysters, crispy oyster skewers, fish porridge, oyster porridge, horseshoe crab soup, heart-packed fish balls, fresh meat and fish Balls, water ball soup, mackerel japonica, net gauze fish rolls, fried fish sticks, tied feet, noodle paste, flat food, meat yan, roasted taro fruit, taro buns, chicken soup noodles, dry noodles, marinated noodles, lotus Dried tofu, glutinous rice with large intestine, pork blood tail mouth japonica, bitter vegetable and large intestine soup, shrimp skin sweet potato noodles, bean curd, beef soup, bean curd, stone flower cake... all introduced, let alone eat it, just read the description. People drool madly.
The oysters are not only nutritious, but the cooked food is delicious. People in southern Fujian have a habit of eating porridge. They choose seasonal foods according to the seasons, and prepare glutinous rice to make porridge. The variety is varied and delicious!
The jelly of bamboo shoots is made of a kind of mollusk like earthworms that grows in shallow beaches. It is not only delicious, but also reduces fire and inflammation, cools and relieves heat.
Horseshoe crab soup is a seafood unique to southern Fujian. The horseshoe crab is edible all over the body and has a special flavor.
The food in other places is more abundant, including Mongolian milk tea, pancakes and fruits, pot sticker dumplings, Shanxi sliced noodles, bacon flat cakes, spicy soup, beef stew, Yangzhou egg fried rice, crab soup, shrimp fried eel noodles, Lei Cha, Tofu balls, pickled fish, dandan noodles, Maoxuewang, bridge rice noodles, etc. are countless.
For example, the South Chinese people make smoked meat by putting moderately fat pork and pig into the water, adding amomum, dried ginger, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and other nine-flavored Chinese herbal medicines, and then smoked after they are cooked; flatbreads are boiled The meat soup is shortened with oil, and baked into a flat cake with a soft outside and a soft inside. When eating, the bacon is especially delicious with the flat cake.
At first glance, it is known that it is good meat. Compared with European meat, South Chinese are willing to put spices over European meat making. When European aristocrats have seen the smoked meat written in "South China Travel Notes", it is compared with homemade meat. The spices used at the time are not as much as the Chinese. They put enough, I just feel that the homemade meat is tasteless!
Eriksson also loves to eat donkey meat on fire, thinking it is "the food of heaven!"
There are more than a thousand types of food recorded in "South China Travel Notes", and there is no lack of descriptions of the perfect production process. Later generations believed that this is not just a travel note, but also a recipe when studying "South China Travel Notes".
A few years later, some Chinese envoys in Europe returned to their country to report on their duties. They said that the reputation of a Chinese in Europe was thunderous, and even the reputation was even higher than that of the Emperor Yan Changwu of the South China Empire.
This man is Chen Zhongji, the official and senior governor of the State of Chu of the Southern China Empire. His inscription is famous in Europe: "Life is to live, but to eat and drink. A nation that can't eat, has no future for development!"
Europeans suddenly realized that because the Chinese can eat so much, they dare to eat everything. They all dare to eat everything except kites, boats and four-legged benches (actually this is Hong Mao Fan). For the misunderstanding of the Chinese, they regard the Chinese as Cantonese who can eat everything!) So Chinese talents will be invincible all over the world!
As a result, there has been a wave of Chinese food in Europe. Chinese food has swept all over Europe at an alarming rate. Chinese people are surprised to find that one product has become popular all at once: chopsticks!
Chopsticks are China's food tools. The first to enter the European royal family was King Louis XIV. He made chopsticks second to none. He could use chopsticks to hold glass beads!
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Louis XIV was born in 1638 AD. He is now less than 30 years old. It is a good age to accept new things. He originally used chopsticks to hold food. When "South China Travels" spread to Europe, he became a Chinese delicacy. Of iron powder.
The chef in the palace, the chef in the South China Empire's embassy in France, was hired at a high price to cook Chinese food for Louis XIV.
At the same time, Chinese tableware has also become popular in Europe. Before most people in Europe used wooden and ceramic dishes, but wooden bowls are easy to rot and ceramic bowls are not easy to wash. Of course, bacteria can grow over time.
With the opening of new shipping routes, Chinese tableware that has traveled across the ocean to Europe has finally begun to change the appalling European eating habits. The first thing that brought changes was not low-key chopsticks, but high-key porcelain. Chinese porcelain has a smooth texture and high heat resistance, and does not react chemically with food~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It is more convenient and easy to scrub. So after entering Europe, he quickly became a representative of health and hygiene. Since the 16th century, it has continued to spread throughout the European aristocratic courts.
When Chinese delicacies rose in Europe, bringing Chinese tableware, including chopsticks, spread across Europe, and it became popular again.
The spread of "Travel to South China" has caused the "China fever" in Europe to continue to heat up. The book is hailed as another masterpiece introducing the East to Westerners after "Marco Polo's Travels".
Marco Polo was a silly person. He arrived in the capital (Beijing) when he was Emperor Taizu and saw the prosperity of the East at that time; developed industry and commerce, bustling markets, gorgeous and cheap silk brocade, magnificent and magnificent Capital city, perfect and convenient post road transportation, universal banknotes and so on. The content of the book makes everyone who has read this book infinitely fascinated.
If "Marco Polo's Travels" is white and snowy in the spring, then "South China Travels" is a native of Liba. Eriksson was waiting for the monsoon to rise and staying in South China to visit everywhere, extensively contacted all walks of life, and obtained through newspapers A lot of information,
So Eriksson became famous. When the "Gothenburg" returned to Gothenburg, Sweden, the people there already knew his reputation, all because of the rapid spread of "South China Travels" in Europe, and it spread faster than the ship. !
The key is that he wrote it in various languages, which is more convenient for dissemination.
The "Gothenburg" entered the port and was greeted by the port's nineteen gun salutes, which was second only to the courtesy to the king!
Let Eriksson only feel sincere and frightened, and the Swedish Privy Minister Jim Abbott, who came to greet him, said to Eriksson: "It is not Captain Eriksson that I greet, but the author of "South China Travels". Rickson!"
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