Why do Westerners eat bread and Chinese eat steamed buns?

Why do Westerners eat bread while Chinese steam buns? The biggest difference between bread and steamed buns is that one is baked and the other is steamed. (As if saying nonsense) The bread we are familiar with today is made in an oven, but in the ancient West, except for the rich, ordinary people could not make bread at home. They had to take wheat to the miller and grind it into flour, and then Bread is made in a communal oven. A small town generally had only one oven and one baker. The world's earliest trade associations were formed by bakers. Below is a bread oven used in ancient Europe. It’s really a big thing. This baking method first appeared in Egypt (probably baked under the sun), and later spread to Europe, where there are many forests, and became baked with a large amount of firewood. Typical bread is usually baked with wheat flour mixed with a large amount of bran. Become. But this was considered bread of conscience at that time. In fact, it is common to add wood chips, small stones and other impurities to black bread. The poorer the people, the more stones they eat in the bread. Therefore, in ancient Europe, teeth were not only used to distinguish animals, but also to distinguish between rich and poor people. , poor people have their teeth polished off at a young age, while only nobles and royal families can have good teeth. This kind of bread cannot be eaten at one time. After it hardens over time, people slice it and use it as a plate. After its mission as a plate is over, it can also be used as a rag to wipe the table, and finally thrown to the pigs. Nothing is wasted. Painters often use stale bread as an eraser when modifying oil paintings. Many of these traditions are still in use today. Even when Lenin was in the tsarist prison, he used milk mixed with ashes as ink to write revolutionary works. The bottle for the ink was also stale bread. In fact, the staple food of Europeans during the Roman era was barley porridge (in China during the same period, it was millet porridge). It was only after the Middle Ages that bread gradually began to become the staple food of the people. Baking bread is a waste of firewood. Most people have the illusion that there are fewer modern forests and more ancient forests. However, in fact, starting from the Song Dynasty in ancient China, the population increased, and large forests were no longer in the Central Plains. A book written by people from the Song Dynasty recorded: " In the past, there were millions of households in Biandu, all of which relied on charcoal, and not one of them burned firewood." In this case, it is okay to bake sesame seed cakes occasionally, but it would be too uneconomical for everyone to eat toasted bread. Back to China, our Chinese appetites are not used to eating toasted bread. Wheat was introduced to China 5,000 years ago, but it has not been very popular. Before the Tang and Song Dynasties, northerners were accustomed to eating millet. It was common to cook millet into thick porridge and eat it. Wheat was used as a kind of food. Dispensing products. (The common way to eat wheat at that time was to eat wheat rice) Before the popularity of woks. The earliest cooking utensil in China was Li (li, four tones). It is a waste of heat energy to cook food, so the smart ancestors of the Chinese people put something on it and used the heat of cooking to steam things that are easier to cook. Therefore, the "cage drawer" appeared, which was called zeng in ancient times. four tones). The Li is used to cook things at the bottom, and the steamer is used to steam things at the top. This is called Zhen. Obviously, the Chinese invented mature steamer technology before wheat became popular. When people got used to the taste of wheat, they naturally used the familiar steamer technology to process flour, and then steamed buns were made. Although historical records show that Chinese people were able to steam steamed buns in the Jin Dynasty, it was probably after the Song Dynasty that it became a staple food. Some people would say that Zhuge Liang invented steamed buns, but this has never been recorded in official history. It is only mentioned in some literati's notes. For example, the Song Dynasty's "Shijiyuan" and the Qing Dynasty's "Tan Zheng" said: "The heads of the barbarians were used as sacrifices to the gods. Marquis Wu used the faces as human heads to sacrifice, and called them barbarian heads. Now they are called steamed buns." As for the steamed buns, Who invented it? Can not be sure. In general, before 1700 years ago, the Jin Dynasty began to have solid steamed buns, steamed buns, steamed buns - "steamed cakes"; 1400 years ago, the Sui Dynasty began to have steamed buns - "Yujian noodles"; 1100 years ago, the Five Dynasties began to have pleated buns The method of making steamed buns - "sour kneading" 1000 years ago, the word "steamed buns" began to appear in the Song Dynasty - "crab roe buns". Because there were many forests, they were accustomed to baking methods, so Westerners invented bread, while the Chinese, in order to save firewood, Using the original boiling-steaming technology, steamed steamed buns were invented. So it is said that the soil and water support the people.