Compared with the Qin people, the Han people are very happy. Until today, we should all thank one person, and that is Zhang Qian. Zhang Qian brought back cucumbers, garlic, parsley, alfalfa, pomegranate, grapes, walnuts and other fruits and vegetables when he went to the Western Regions. According to legend, Liu An, king of Huainan, invented tofu with gypsum and bean juice, and found a good way to eat soybeans, which greatly enriched the table of Han people.

However, it is difficult to explain clearly what people in the Han Dynasty ate in a short essay, because they are already rich in ingredients.

In terms of staple food, it is almost the same as that of the Qin Dynasty. The staple food is rice, millet and wheat, and the cooked rice is wheat rice, which is yellow. But wisely, people in the Han Dynasty already knew how to make cakes. In the Qin dynasty, people ate steamed cakes, which were soft and crisp. Hu cakes in the Han dynasty came from the western regions, which are very similar to the naan eaten by Xinjiang people today. Now we like to introduce some cooking skills from other countries, and people in the Han Dynasty are no exception. We learned that Hu cakes were delicious. This western style was blown all the way to the Tang Dynasty, and Hu cakes gradually became later sesame cakes and sesame cakes.

One of the characteristics of eating meat is that people in the Han Dynasty loved to eat dog meat, even as one of the main meats, and pigs are refined and expensive animals, and their value can reach ten times that of dogs. The dishes made by dog meat are also very rich. Bamboo slips in Qin and Han Dynasties recorded spiced dried dog meat, dog broth, roasted dog ribs, roasted dog liver and so on.