Why do you eat roast turkey on Thanksgiving? This is a longer story. Although Thanksgiving Day is a special legal holiday in the United States, it seems not in other countries. In fact, ancient western folk also had such festivals. The content is to thank God for his care after the harvest. China's Mid-Autumn Festival or Dragon Boat Festival actually has this kind of content. These two festivals in China are after the autumn harvest and the summer harvest. At this time, people have gone through the era of no food, and they must be very happy to have new food, so we should celebrate and thank God. Some people will say: didn't the Mid-Autumn Festival come from the struggle with the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty? Does the Dragon Boat Festival commemorate Qu Yuan? That's what I meant later. In ancient times, they were just festivals to celebrate harvest. On this festival, we must thank God for his care. Because without God's care, there will be natural and man-made disasters and crops will not grow well. The God of China is a dragon, an ancestor, and heaven and earth. So dragon boat racing and throwing zongzi into the water may all be thanks to dragons. Moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival may be food for offering sacrifices to gods or ancestors. This is a custom in China. After the harvest in the west, we also need to thank God for his concern, so ancient western countries have gratitude.
The technology of roast goose was introduced to China twice. One is the Yuan Dynasty. Once in the Qing Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongol Empire occupied a large area. From eastern China to the Mediterranean, this is his territory. So westerners like Kyle Poirot can come to China. They brought many western cultures. Including cannons and roast geese. Duyuan has a roast duck restaurant. Why from roast goose to roast duck? Goose turns into turkey for the same reason. Ducks are a specialty of China. Duck for roast duck is an excellent breed cultivated in China. Its scientific name is Beijing roast duck. Now the whole world is eating this kind of duck. I said: Wild ducks are found all over the world, and only China people domesticate them. China began to domesticate wild ducks before 2000. It is also called "mallard" in English. This name is now a clothing brand. There are no domestic ducks in Europe. But geese were domesticated long ago. This is enough for them to domesticate geese. Because geese are bigger than ducks, people in the Mediterranean and Europe always regard them as ducks' prey. There are records of geese in the Bible. According to Roman legend, a flock of geese saved Rome. In China, geese are not as common as ducks. Now there are ducks in every pond. You seldom see geese. So in China, roast goose becomes roast duck. In the Yuan Dynasty, roast duck was similar to roast goose in the west. In China, it is called "stewed duck". It seems that we can't eat this roast duck now.
In fact, this roast duck restaurant is opened in Rongcheng, Shandong Province. It features pancakes, onions or cucumbers, sauce and ducks. Onions, cucumbers and pancakes with soy sauce are the most popular foods in Shandong. However, the author has a hypothetical explanation for why Shandong people invented roast duck: at the end of Qing Dynasty, Germany occupied Qingdao, Shandong Province, and Qingdao, an immigrant, belongs to Germany and will stay in Germany forever, "said William II, the then German emperor. So Qingdao was not a colony at that time, but an enclave of Germans in China. This was of course Mr. William's idea. The Prussians who occupied Shandong were also hunters. Wild ducks are their traditional prey. They and their ancestors have been hunting wild ducks in Germany or the present Polish Czech Republic for thousands of years, so they continue to fight in China. There are many wild ducks in China. At least at that time. Their habit is to eat while playing outside. This way of eating is similar to today's barbecue, but it is roasted with an open flame. This kind of game barbecue is very similar to Beijing roast duck. Roast honey on the duck. China people learned this method immediately, but they didn't completely abolish the closed roast duck. It can make roast duck not only have the smell of open fire, but also have the heat of closed oven.