Tofu, magic for thousands of years.

? Su Ping, the author of Ode to Tofu, was born in Guodian, Haining in the Ming Dynasty. His name is Bingheng, and his name is Mr. Xi Xue. He is one of Jingtai's ten gifted scholars. This poem is a famous poem describing tofu, which is a special food in China. The poem begins with the name of Liu An, the inventor of tofu, and then describes the process of making tofu: peeling, grinding, boiling, ordering and cutting. The details of making tofu brain are vividly described, and the admiration is beyond words.

Original poem

Tofu song

? Su mingping

? It is best to apply Huainan, and the skin looks the best.

? The spinning mill is dripping with dew and cooking snow in the pot of the moon.

? When a crock is soaked, the toad has a shadow, and the golden knife cuts the jade without defects.

? Who knows the taste, mostly on monks and Taoists.

To annotate ...

1. Huainan technique: refers to the technique of making tofu. According to legend, Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, accidentally invented the method of making tofu in the process of seeking immortality.

2. Skin: refers to the skin of beans.

3. essence: refers to peeled beans? Son.

4. Rotary grinding: the stone mill for grinding soybean milk, and the "moon-boiling pot" in the next sentence is also a tool for making tofu and a pot for cooking soybean milk.

5. Qiong Ye: It is a metaphor for soybean milk flowing out of a stone mill, and the "snowflake" in the next sentence is also a metaphor for soybean milk rolling in a pot.

6. Toad has a shadow: Toad: It is said that there is a golden toad on the moon. So toads often refer to the moon. "Toad has a shadow" is a metaphor for soybean milk in a crock, which looks as round and white as the moon after pickling.

7. Jade is flawless: the metaphor of tofu is like flawless white jade.

8. Among them: Here.

9. Monks and Taoists: Monks and Taoists, vegetarians eat more tofu and bean products.

translate

Tofu is the best immortal art handed down from the king of Huainan. When the skin of soybean is peeled off, the essence of soybean is revealed.

On the rotating stone mill, nectar-like soybean juice flowed out, and snowflake-like soybean milk rolled in the boiling moon pot.

Soymilk preserved in a crock is like a bright moon, and tofu cut with a golden knife is like pieces of flawless white jade.

Who knows the delicious tofu best? Most of them will be monks and Taoists.