What are the specialties in Korea?

When it comes to Korean food, most people only think of fermented foods such as kimchi and soy sauce. In fact, this is a big misunderstanding. As far as kimchi is concerned, its variety and delicacy are absolutely beyond the imagination of ordinary foreigners and people who have never been to Korea. In Korea, there are more than 30 kinds of kimchi that are often eaten according to different regions and seasons, and the materials are ever-changing. Holiday rich dishes and unique traditional diet let us see the profoundness of Korean food culture.

South Korea's diet is mainly natural, and its main characteristics are high protein, many vegetables, light taste, non-greasy, and cold and spicy taste. As a kingdom of fermented foods, fermented foods such as sauces and pickles have always been the main theme of Korean non-staple foods. Among them, kimchi contains the national soul of Koreans and is another generation of Korean nouns. Korean food is inseparable from kimchi, and its position in the diet cannot be subverted, and no food can replace it. But kimchi is different from kimchi in China, and kimchi in China is mainly sour. Naturally fermented kimchi is a medicine. Lactic acid bacteria produced in the fermentation process help digestion and are said to have anti-cancer effects. Korean kimchi is also rated as one of the five healthiest foods in the world by American Health Magazine, while China kimchi is often associated with carcinogenic and unhealthy foods.

Koreans attach importance to festivals and observe holiday customs, and there are often rich Korean dishes on holidays. Like several traditional festivals in China, there are Spring Festival (65438+ 1), Lantern Festival (65438+ 15), Dragon Boat Festival (5 May) and Mid-Autumn Festival (0/5). The difference is that the food has its own characteristics. The Spring Festival is the biggest festival in Korea. The food prepared during the Spring Festival is called rice cake, and the most important thing is rice cake soup. On the first day of the first month, the whole family get together to eat rice cake soup. This rice cake soup has a very special meaning. Eating rice cake soup on Korean Lunar New Year's Day means another year, so rice cake soup is also called "adding rice cake". The traditional diet of Lantern Festival includes coarse cereals, wild vegetables, medicated rice, printed cakes, Yuanxiao, nuts and so on. This paper mainly introduces medicinal rice. Medicinal diet rice, also known as medicinal diet, is mainly made of glutinous rice, walnuts, chestnuts, dates, pine nuts or melon seeds. Koreans often treat their guests with medicated diet. On major festivals or weddings, medicated meals are an essential meal. Taking medicine on the fifteenth day of the first month is said to ward off evil spirits and lead a peaceful life. The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a day to pray for a bumper harvest after transplanting rice seedlings. You should eat burdock cake on Dragon Boat Festival, which is a kind of cut cake kneaded with hairy burdock with small leaves and white back. Because its shape resembles a wheel, it is also called "wheel cake". Other traditional Dragon Boat Festival foods include refreshing soup for preventing heatstroke and relieving summer heat, delicious jiaozi of loach, and Schisandra sweet tea for relieving diarrhea and sweating, quenching thirst and relieving summer heat.

In addition to these delicacies, there are many special delicacies with unique Korean culture and plot. Korean sticky cake, also known as "rice cake", can be called the "pillar" of holiday food in Korean traditional diet. It is said that sticky cakes contain the meaning of sincerity, love and filial piety, so holiday gifts can not be short of sticky cakes, such as children's first birthday, marriage, sixtieth birthday, sending home gifts and so on.

Sacrifice in Korea is also a very meaningful thing. Koreans are very particular about sacrificial food. Preparing food in advance is an important activity to pay homage to ancestors in festivals. Among them, the cakes used in the sacrificial ceremony should not be brightly colored, and the red bean paste should be peeled when used. In addition, we can often see a very beautiful diet-10% off rice-in the palace meals in ancient Korean dramas. A 10% discount rice, as the name implies, consists of 9 kinds of materials, but because of its beautiful shape and exquisite workmanship, it makes people laugh. Nowadays, Koreans eat a 10% discount on major festivals or festivals.

The reasonable collocation of diet is also a major aspect that reflects the superiority of Korean food culture. For example, sweet potato pickles. Kimchi is a good fermented food. However, kimchi is too salty and its sodium content increases, which is harmful to health. When the sodium content increases, the potassium component in the body will excrete the sodium component. Sweet potato is rich in potassium, which can increase the content of potassium, so it is an excellent marriage with high-salt kimchi. Especially for patients with hypertension, such a diet is safer. As for aquatic products, mingtai fish is low in calories and delicious, which is deeply loved by Korean people. However, its eggs, liver and blood are highly toxic, which may cause food poisoning and even life-threatening, so it is a wise choice to eat Oenanthe javanica with the function of clearing blood. Oenanthe javanica is rich in calcium, potassium, iron and vitamins A, B and C. Its unique detoxification function and components can promote metabolism and have good immune function. Adding cress to Mingtai fish soup can not only harmonize the taste of soup, but also prevent food poisoning.

There are many classic collocations similar to the above dishes in Korea, which is the embodiment of the traditional culture handed down by Korea and deserves our appreciation. In addition, it has a good reference significance for the inheritance of China culture.