The development trend of meat in Tang and Song Dynasties-beef and mutton is still the mainstream edible meat, deeply influenced by eating habits since the pre-Qin period. On the basis of famous barbecues in the Tang Dynasty, the menu is as follows: tender beef intestines (cooked with sheep oil), prawns (barbecued with live shrimps), white dragon loin (made of tenderloin repeatedly slapped) and shredded sheep skin (fried with shredded mutton and cut into one foot). Cattle, sheep, chickens, quails and even frogs are short of pork. Song dynasty is a period when the diet culture of meat-eating Han nationality developed to a profound level. Because of the ban on beef, mutton became the main meat of the royal literati in this period. Eating meat and beef and mutton is classified as "miscellaneous animals". "Cattle, sheep and deer are not common in southern families." However, the formula must be known. Make a list of miscellaneous sacrifices. "

Although the eating habit of eating meat has been gradually reversed, the lofty status of beef and mutton cannot be shaken. 1840, when Red-Eye Ying put the cannon under the nose of the Qing Dynasty, Qishan was appointed as an imperial envoy to negotiate with foreigners. On the day before the talks, he sent food to the British fleet according to the old rule of the imperial court to entertain envoys, including 20 steer cows, 200 sheep, many ducks and chickens, one or two thousand eggs, but not a pig.