Song Qifeng also wrote a book "The Story of Barnacles", which tells all kinds of anecdotes about temples and rivers and lakes in the Ming Dynasty. It is very detailed and has attracted the attention of scholars of Ming history.
It recorded the breakfast menu of Emperor Chongzhen, which flowed out from the old eunuch in the palace, with high credibility.
"Its meal shame, cattle, sheep, donkeys, dolphins, deer, pheasants, rabbits, aquatic products, mountains and rivers, vegetables and pheasants. A large area of the furnace is smoked and fried too thick, with different names. Moreover, the folk seasonal dishes and snacks are also collected, which was decided by the ancestors, so it shows that children and grandchildren know the hardships outside. Small dishes such as bitter vegetable roots, bitter vegetable leaves, dandelions, reed roots, cattail seedlings, jujube buds, perilla leaves, sunflower petals, asparagus, garlic moss, mussels, bitter gourd, celery, wild mushrooms, etc. "
What do you mean by that?
In other words, Emperor Chongzhen ate a lot of meat for breakfast. Beef, mutton, donkey meat, seafood and so on are all cooked. Even the author thinks it is "too thick". It seems that Emperor Chongzhen has a strong taste and loves meat.
I suspect it's hereditary.
The Ming Dynasty's "LiBu Zhi Draft" recorded the breakfast of Emperor Yongle: "Tea with roast chicken, double bonzi bones, big silver ingots, big oil cakes, soup, double steamed bread, horse meat rice and wine". You see, roast chicken, horse meat with great bones, and then eat a big oil cake, which is greasy.
Emperor Jiajing had to be a vegetarian to practice Taoism, but he loved meat. what should he do ？ So the chef put the vegetarian dish "meat juice and agent into it", that is, boiled pig blood and the like, made pig blood soup, soaked the vegetarian dish in it and fed it to Jiajing.
Is it strong enough?
Besides, Ming emperors had to eat "side dishes" in the morning. This side dish is a rule set by Zhu Yuanzhang, and it is a family law of ancestors, which must be observed. They are all bitter vegetables, dandelions, perilla leaves and the like, not the most bitter, only more bitter.
Why is it so bitter?
It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang made a list of wild vegetables he ate as a child, fearing that future generations would forget the difficulty of starting a business and invited future generations of emperors to have breakfast.
However, his old man's house doesn't understand the truth that food is mutually reinforcing, and he doesn't know that future generations love meat so much.
Back to the breakfast menu of Emperor Chongzhen, according to the superstition that "food is like grams": donkey meat is hot and dry, dandelion is wet and cold, and both of them are eaten together, or hurt the liver.
No wonder Emperor Chongzhen is so angry. It turns out that eating donkey meat and bitter vegetables every morning hurts your temper.
However, according to the CCTV 3 15 party on the evening of March/5, 20 18, the so-called "eating goods" has no scientific basis.
Therefore, it is estimated that the breakfast of Emperor Chongzhen will not be poisoned.
Just add some honey yogurt, otherwise how can you digest so much fish and meat?