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Peppery soup, spicy soup, a word difference, what is the difference?
First of all, hu spicy soup, as we all know, this is one of the representative cuisines of Henan, to be precise, it belongs to the breakfast snack, very grounded, suitable for all ages.
And spicy soup?
Some people think that peppery soup and spicy soup are the same thing, and in some information, peppery soup is also called hot soup.
But are spicy soups and peppery soups really the same thing?
Let's take it slow.
Speaking of Peppery Soup, I thought of Henan, which is a business card of Henan food culture, or a label, of course, Henan is not only Peppery Soup, there are many delicacies, here is not all listed.
Nowadays, in all parts of the country, almost all over the country, there are almost all kinds of peppery soup figures, including some cities in the south, you can easily drink peppery soup, the reason for this, there are probably two aspects, one is that peppery soup is cheap and cheap, most people like it, secondly, Henan people go all over the world, there are many people who go out to work, and naturally some people have started the business of peppery soup.
It is said that in the diet of Henan Hu Spicy Soup, there are two gate schools, one is Xiaoyao Hu Spicy Soup, one is Beiwudu Hu Spicy Soup, that is, Xihua County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province, Xiaoyao Town, and Luohe City, Wuyang County, Beiwudu Town, among which especially Xiaoyao Town Hu Spicy Soup is famous, it can be called a brother of Hu Spicy Soup, of course, the mouth is difficult to adjust, some people like Beiwudu Hu Spicy Soup, it is also reasonable.
So, then again, how did this peppery soup come about?
As we all know, the ingredients of pepper soup are first inseparable from pepper, and when was pepper introduced to China? This has different theories, some people say the Han Dynasty, some people say the Tang Dynasty, and there is also the Song Dynasty, it is said that the ancestors of Hu Spicy Soup should be sour and spicy soup and meat porridge, according to the "Taiping Huimin and Pharmacy Bureau Fang" in the Song Dynasty spread widely, adding spicy and fragrant drugs to the food, it is estimated that it was the social trend at that time, so Hu Spicy Soup was improved on the basis of these two foods.
Historically, Kaifeng was the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, perhaps at that time there was a food such as "Peppery Soup", which later spread to all parts of Henan, and over the centuries, it has evolved.
If you study carefully, the peppery soup all over Henan has its own statement, or historical context, such as the North Dance Ferry Peppery Soup, which is the Ming and Qing Dynasties, where the merchants gathered, which can be called the logistics distribution place, such a place, the most likely to produce food, the local Peppery Soup, and there is also an elegant name, called "Eight Treasures Soup", which probably means to describe the use of more materials, the use of materials, rich in nutrition.
The Hu spicy soup in Xiaoyao Town is said to have originated from the imperial court chef during the song Huizong period, based on the Shaolin Temple's "decoction soup" and Wudang Mountain's "consumption tea", to make a soup with good color and flavor. At that time, it was called "Longevity Soup", but later the soldiers were in chaos, and this imperial cook fled to The Town of Yaoyao, and this soup was spread among the people.
Of course, there are different versions, it is said that during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a senior monk who offered a longevity fangzi, Long Yan Daxi, named "Royal Soup", and later, the imperial chef got this party, and went to Xiaoyao Town, which was passed down in the folk.
Whether it is a hot soup or a north dance pepper soup, on the whole, it is the same, visually, at a glance, the color is relatively dark.
And Henan Kaifeng Peppery Soup, the color is much lighter, there is no beef and mutton soup ingredients, mainly using vegetarian ingredients, which is much closer to the "spicy soup" we want to talk about below.
In addition to Henan Hu spicy soup, there is also Shaanxi Hu spicy soup, which is considered to be the two major factions of Hu spicy soup, the big difference is that Shaanxi Hu spicy soup to put beef balls, but in general, the origin is still derived from Henan Hu spicy soup, in Shaanxi, in addition to the local Muslim meatball paste spicy soup, there are Henan meat Ding Hu spicy soup and vegetarian Hu spicy soup, each with its own advantages.
After talking about the peppery soup, let's look at the spicy soup, what is the spicy soup?
Generally speaking, spicy soup is a delicacy in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, Zaozhuang, Shandong, also eaten as breakfast, in recent years, and popular night spicy soup, it can be seen that diners love this thing day and night.
So does the spicy soup originate from the peppery soup? Or is the chili soup derived from the spicy soup?
I am afraid that these two foods originated almost in the same time period, the Northern Song Dynasty Xining decade, that is, in 1077 AD, the Yellow River seized Si into Huaihuai, all kinds of fish flooded with the water, and could not catch them, Su Shi, who was the governor of Xuzhou at that time, wrote the poem "Hefu" as a description: "The juye east tilts Huai Si Man, and the Chu people eat the Yellow River turtle." "The Chu people here refer to the Xuzhou people, who catch eels from the Yellow River and cook soup with condiments to form the prototype of Xuzhou spicy soup.
Speaking of this, it is necessary to mention the eel spicy soup, if in Shandong Lunan, Jiangsu Subei area, it is not difficult to find that there is eel spicy soup in the breakfast, its taste is unique, it is a must, absolutely not lost to Henan Hu spicy soup, combined with the poetry of Su Dongpo in the Song Dynasty, it is easy to conclude that this "eel spicy soup" was popular as early as the Song Dynasty, at least in the Xuzhou area, very popular.
Xuzhou is located in the intersection of the four provinces of Sulu, Yuwan, the Song Dynasty's "Xuzhou", may be more extensive, inference, Xuzhou spicy soup at that time may have affected the surrounding areas, of course, it may affect each other, as for the relationship between Hu spicy soup and spicy soup, it is difficult to say clearly, say that it is not the same thing, and more or less related, say that it is one thing, and indeed have different origins. If you look closely, it may involve grits soup and the ancient "pheasant soup".
Looking at Shandong spicy soup, it should be said that the "spicy soup" is carried forward, and here tengzhou spicy soup is taken as an example, which is a more representative spicy soup.
Tengzhou is located in Lunan, three kingdoms Wuyi, has a long history, food culture, long history, here the spicy soup, the color is light, and Kaifeng Hu spicy soup has a little similarity, but only limited to the color similarity, in fact, closer to Xuzhou spicy soup, but different, may be in the use of bar, each has its own advantages.
As a folk cuisine, different places, there will always be differences in practice, with the passage of time, only those genuine diets, can be passed down, I don't know which one you like?