The word "eight treasures" was first seen in Zhou Li.
It is recorded in "Zhou Li Tian Guan Zhong Zai": "Eating a doctor, the palm is the same as Wang Zhi's six foods, six drinks, six meals, a hundred dishes, a hundred sauces and eight treasures." "Zhou Li Tian Guan Shan Fu": "Where the king feeds, he eats six grains and drinks six clear grains, and he is ashamed to use one hundred and twenty products, and he uses eight treasures."
The answer is given in the Book of Rites, and these eight things are Chunkao, Chunmu, Cannibal, Cannon _, Daozhen, Waterlogging, Boiling and Liver _.
It turns out that in the Zhou Dynasty, Bazhen did not refer to eight kinds of raw materials as it does today, but eight kinds of "cooking practices".
Among them, "Chunzao" and "Chunmu" refer to mixed rice with meat sauce, "Canned Dolphin" and "Canned _" are roast pork and mutton respectively, "Daozhen" refers to the tenderloin of roasted cattle, sheep and deer, "Picked Zhen" refers to the beef marinated in wine, "Zaozhen" is similar to today's spiced beef jerky, and "Liver _(liáo
It was not until the Song Dynasty that the meaning of Bazhen changed from cooking methods to ingredients.
In the Ming Dynasty's Letters of the Tang Dynasty, it was written: "According to the Rites, the so-called Eight Treasures, etc. Later generations wasted Yunlong liver, phoenix marrow, leopard fetus, carp tail, _ roasted, scarlet lips, bear's paw and crispy buttermilk cicada. "
In the Qing dynasty, there was a saying of "eight treasures of mountains and rivers".
Mountain eight treasures: bear's paw, velvet antler, elephant trunk, hump, civet, leopard fetus, lion's milk, monkey head and so on.
Water eight treasures: shark's fin, abalone, fish lips, sea cucumber, skirt, scallop, fish crisp, frog and so on.