Folk Story | Taiyuan Tourist Scenic Area Album -Mark Polo and Shanxi Pasta in Shanxi Noodle Museum

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Taiyuan is a national historical and cultural city. It has an ancient capital of more than 2,500 years of history. It is located in the middle of the Yellow River. The tributary Fenhe runs through the city and has become one of the birthplaces of the Sanjin civilization. It has created a splendid culture and formed a deep humanistic heritage. On this land, the people of Taiyuan have not only created a variety of dance, music, and painting art, but also created vast oral literature -folk story. We will successively launch folk stories in tourist attractions to readers.

This issue will continue to tell you about folk stories related to the Shanxi Pasta Museum.

Introduction to Shanxi Noodle Museum

Shanxi Noodle Museum is the theme museum that promotes Shanxi's pasta culture and inherit Shanxi civilization.

The Shanxi Noodle Museum is located in the Twelfth Academy of Heping South Road, Wan Berlin District, Taiyuan City. It covers an area of ​​10,000 square meters. It is a museum that integrates restaurants and museums. living room". The museum consists of the first part of "Shanxi Noodle Pastry", the second part of "Shanxi region noodles", and the third part of "Shanxi pasta towards the world", which fully introduces the achievements of Shanxi's long -term pasta and evolution and development.

Shanxi Noodle Museum Double Synthetic Hall

Marco Polo and Shanxi cuisine

Marco Polo, a world -renowned traveler, was born in Venice, Italy in 1254.

When Marco Polo was seventeen years old, he followed his father and uncle to our country. It took four years to 12 years from Yuan

(1275) Arrived in the capital (now Beijing), and the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty Kublai Khan. He has traveled to China for seventeen years and has visited many ancient cities in China, including Taiyuan.

After returning to Venice, he wrote the book "Marco Polo Tour", telling what he saw in the East country. There are records of northern Chinese food in the book. In the 26th chapter of the book, he wrote: As for food, there is no shortage of worries. Because most people in these places are made of rice, crickets, and millet. On their land, it can be collected three times a year and has a lot of output. They use stone as a capacity unit. Although the wheat is not so high, they do not eat bread, and they can only be eaten when they make lines or pastries. From this text, we can see Marco Polo's familiarity with the line.

Shanxi Noodle Shanxi Guild Hall provided

Therefore, Marco Polo brings back the technology of making lines back to Italy. This text records the view that Italian noodles originated from China. The folk is also circulating. The Italian pizza evolved from Chinese pie and became a good story of Chinese and Western cultural exchanges. According to Western documents, Italian pasta has been spread throughout Europe, and today it has developed to more than 400 kinds.

(Text/Zhao Mengtian))

Source: Taiyuan Cultural Museum (Taiyuan Cultural Tourism Development Center)

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