The favorite
foods stories of the world's greatest persons
1st Story : The
favorite stamina food of Mao Zedong(毛泽东), who was the leader of
the early Communist Party of China
What about the Chinese leaders' meals?
According to nutritionists who have been responsible
for the nutrition of the leaders of China, most leaders say that "the meat
of four-legs animals like pigs, cows, sheep. But they are not as good as the
meat of animals with two legs, like chicken and goose. Meanwhile the one-footed mushroom is better
than two-legs animals, but is not as good as a fish which is no foot."
“四條腿(豬, 牛,
羊)的不如兩條腿的(雞,
鵝),
兩條腿的不如一條腿的(菌類),
一條腿的不如沒有腿的(魚)”
If so, are Chinese leaders not eating
meat? Not like that. They mainly eat
beef and mutton in autumn and winter, which is suitable for 'supplementing the
heat'. They also enjoy chicken and
rabbit meat among meats, which is helpful because these meats are the high
protein but the low fat. Among the
vegetables, root vegetables are used in winter, such as radishes, lilies, and
taro. They also eat a lot of black color
foods. For example, black sesame, black rice, purple laver, and mushroom are
suitable.
On the other hand, Chinese leaders have
eaten twenty - five kinds of food every day. This doesn't mean the twenty -
five course dishes, but the little eating and the lots side dishes. In other words, they think that the balance
of nutrition is the most important key.
So let's see what kind of food Mao Zedong,
who was the leader of the early Communist Party of China, enjoyed.
Mao basically liked the vegetarian diet. Of
course, Mao also had meat. Mao
especially ate the well-known Hong Shao Rou (紅燒肉) cooked with
pork fat, and he ate Hong Shao Zhouzi (紅燒酎子) cooked with pork thigh
meat, and the lightly roasted fish (火焙魚). As you know, these foods are enjoyed by the
general public in China in these days.
Mao also liked Sha Guo Yu Tou (砂鍋魚頭) cooked with fish head. It is a dish made by putting tofu and
vegetable pith on the head of chubby fish. His favorite vegetables were Chinese
cabbage, Kidney beans, Spinach, Water Parsley, and so on. Especially, he enjoyed Balsam Apple mixed
with the pork slice, slicing pork meat mixed with cucumber, cooking dishes made
with winter bamboo shoots, and lotus root with sugar and vinegar. These foods
frequently served on Mao 's table.
Mao's food, Hong Shao Rou (紅燒肉)
Mao did not ask for high quality food, and
ate a little food because food was not well supplied during the anti-Japanese
war. It was also because of his thrifty behavior which got along with with poor
workers. One of Mao's most favorite
dishes was Hong Shao Rou (紅燒肉). He said that Hong Shao Rou (紅燒肉) would support the brain, and in his opinion, Hong Shao Rou (紅燒肉) would strengthened his body and sexual energy very much if he ate
Hong Shao Rou (紅燒肉), so he thought that eating Hong Shao Rou (紅燒肉) only once or twice a week was enough.
The originator of Hong Shao Rou (紅燒肉) is Sudongpo(苏东坡), who was the best poet
in the Song Dynasty.
It is a popular Chinese steamed food. It is
cooked by the following method.
1) Boiling pork belly (Samgyupsal) with
peel and pressing strongly.
2) Cutting the boiled pork belly
(Samgyupsal) into long squares.
3) Mixing it in a saucepan with green
onion, soy sauce, sugar, and spices
4) And then boiling It for a long time with
a weak fire until it was so soft that the chopsticks would go through to the
center of the meat.
So,the teeth-weak elderly like Hong Shao
Rou (紅燒肉) very much.
5) Adding the Shao Xing Jiu (紹興酒 liquor) in order to enhance the flavor.
The meat of Hong Shao Rou (紅燒肉), which is likely to be shattered right away, is tied up
beautifully with green onion. Its rinds
are very gooey, the meat is soft and lustrous.
After the unification of China, the life
situation including foods improved, but Mao Ze Dong (毛澤東) continued to eat Hong Shao Rou (紅燒肉). He did not try to eat all sorts of
delicacies. However, because Hong Shao
Rou (紅燒肉) is the fat pork belly, it can be harmful to the health of old age,
so when doctors encouraged Mao to eat less.
At that time, Mao said, "I have to follow the advice of the
doctors, but I can't always follow their advice. Please don't compel my lifestyle, especially the eating
habit, which I have for decades."
Accordingly, he didn't abandon his habit of eating Hong Shao Rou (紅燒肉) until his death. Anyway, it
is good to eat it added with garlic and vegetables, also it is good to get rid
of fat. In Okinawa, old people eat the
boiled pork meat three times a week, but most of them live for a long time.
Foods that were always served on Mao's
dining table : Red Pepper and Douchi (豆豉)
However, there are two things that must be
included in Mao 's diet. They were Douchi (豆豉) and Red
Pepper. Douchi (豆豉) is a type of seasoning made by boiling yellow
beans or black beans and fermenting them.
In particular, it is said that the main
feature of Mao's diet was that Red Pepper did not fall off the dining
table. At the time of the war, he said
that he didn't pay attention to any side dish if he had only red pepper, but he
used to put red pepper in dumplings if there was no other food. In 1942, the Stalinist sent a generous gift
to Mao Ze Dong, who sent his own chili as a complimentary gift. Mao Ze Dong's
table was simple after unification, but Red Pepper was always served on his
dining table. When he was old and could not eat red pepper due to various
illnesses, he had to be satisfied that he could put a little in a small bowl
and he coated his mouth with red pepper a little.
The red pepper has a great effect of
warming the stomach, removing the cold, and drying the moisture. Therefore, the
red pepper is good medicine to cure abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea and
dysentery. These diseases are caused by
the low temperature of the stomach. The
red pepper stimulates the gastrointestinal motility and stimulates the
secretion of digestive fluid, so it can help people digest well. It also has
antibacterial and insecticidal action. Vitamin C of the red pepper is 30 times
as many as apples, and contains beta-carotene, which has a large anticancer effect.
And it contains 'capsaicin', which not only has a function to sweat and exhale,
but also has the effect of burning fat, thereby preventing the accumulation of
fat and promoting the decomposition of fat. The red pepper has the big effect
of the diet.
However, if you would eat red pepper for a
long time, it causes hemorrhoids, it hurts your teeth and your neck is
swollen. In addition, people with fever
due to lacking a yin[female] energy, or those with inflammatory diseases such
as mouth sores, sore throat, conjunctivitis, and those with hypertension,
gastric ulcers, constipation, and hemorrhoids should be avoided. Especially, in
case of a person with severe constipation due to irritable bowel, spicy foods such as red
pepper is very harmful.
Looking at the facts so far, Mao Ze Dong
did not waste the foods and he did not preferred to the expensive foods. He
only used what he needed. People who did not know the facts talked about Mao Ze
Dong, who was the supreme power at the time, as if he had enjoyed the sumptuous
feast. Actually he was faithful to the
basic principle of "the little eating and the lots side dishes" and
enjoyed the food he had at home town when he was very young. Especially after the establishment of the
People's Republic of China, everyone was in a difficult time, so he did not
specifically covet food in spite of his supreme power.
The favorite foods story of the world's
greatest persons will continue.
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