In the recipes of Song people, sheep is more prominent in the north. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the palace "stopped using mutton" and "did not serve meat" in principle. The mutton produced in Fengyi County, Shaanxi Province is called "tender first". When I was in Song Zhenzong, "the chef spent tens of thousands of sheep", which means "the city is in Shaanxi". Roughly in Song Renzong and Song Yingzong, the Song Dynasty bought tens of thousands of Qidan sheep from Hebei Quechang. In Song Shenzong, the chef's annual expenditure is "434,463 Jin of mutton, 42 Liang of mutton, lamb 19, pork131Jin", which shows that the proportion of pork is very small. When Empress Dowager Cixi was in Song Zhezong, she listened to political affairs and said, "When the chef enters the breast of a sheep and a lamb, it is forbidden to eat the lamb as a meal." . It seems that mutton is particularly precious. Even in the Southern Song Dynasty, when filial piety was practiced, the queen "ate in the palace and provided a sheep every day". In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were obviously not many sheep. "Wuzhong's sheep price is absolutely high, and a pound of meat is 900 yuan."

Next to mutton, of course, is pork. Outside Kaifeng, "people slaughter pigs" often enter the city from Nanxun Gate. "Every night, there are tens of thousands of people in each group, and dozens of people will be fired." The local "slaughter pig and sheep workshop, each person carries a pig and sheep car to the market, and one load is one hundred." Lin 'an "there are several meat shops inside and outside the city", "hanging into pigs" and "each shop sells dozens of noodles every day". In addition, "Xiuyifang is called the meat market, and both streets in the lane are slaughterhouses, killing hundreds of mouths every day" for restaurants and vendors. It can be seen that the pork consumption in these two cities is relatively large.

In the agricultural society of Song Dynasty, cattle were an important productive force. The government has repeatedly banned the slaughter of livestock. Song Zhenzong, northwest "Wei Zhou, Jun has always been based on harvesting sweet cows", and the emperor specially ordered that "from now on, he will go to the mainland for farming and feast on sheep". The government's ban has made beef a treasure in meat. For example, "Zhejiang people regard beef as the top grade, and those who are not arrogant must kill it." "Xiuzhou Qinglong Town is bustling everywhere, and every banquet will kill cattle for meat, which is a pleasure."

Poultry such as chickens, ducks and geese, as well as rabbit meat and game, also accounted for a certain proportion of meat in the Song Dynasty. Under the economic and technological conditions at that time, the aquatic products in rivers, lakes and seas were inexhaustible. The vegetables sold in Kaifeng market include duck meat, quail, pigeon, pigeon, crab, clam and so on.

The dishes sold in the restaurant include quail soup, shrimp and mushroom soup, goose and duck signboard, chicken signboard, fried rabbit, chopped green onion rabbit, fried quail, fried clam, fried crab, washed crab, ginger shrimp, wine crab and so on. There are thousands of tons of raw fish every day at the new main entrance, Xishuimen and Wanshengmen in Kaifeng. In winter, guest fish come from all over the Yellow River, which is called cheyu, and the fish is less than 100 per catty. "Huainan has said that" the shrimp dumplings in Beijing are black and tasteless. If you soak in the feces for one night, it will be as rosy as new when washed away. " Su Shi's diet poems describing Hainan Island include "See pork on the 5th and yellow chicken porridge on the 10th" and "Recommend smoking rats and burning bats". Rat and bat meat has also become an important local meat. Her poem is also called "Guangdong women's market is fickle. Wherever she goes, she moves three or four times a day and sells fish and shrimp everywhere". Aquatic products in the south are undoubtedly richer and cheaper than those in the north. Baoqing Simingzhi Volume 4 Fish and Xichun Sanshan Volume 42 Aquarium recorded dozens of fish and aquatic products in Mingzhou (now Ningbo, Zhejiang) and Fuzhou respectively.

Regional meat, such as "Fujian and Zhejiang people eat frogs, Hunan people eat clams", that is, "big frogs", while "Guangnan eats snakes and the city eats snake soup". The custom of eating snake meat in Guangdong has a long history. In the Song Dynasty, the processing of meat and aquatic products such as pickling, waxing and deslagging also developed considerably.

Mei Yao Chen's poem "Bad Feelings" said: "There are many fish in the empty pool, the net is fat and beautiful, and the kitchen is served with bad stains." There are many shops in Lin 'an, such as Nijiapu in Pomegranate Garden. There are sheep, rabbits, pig heads, bacon, geese, tracts, yellowbirds, whitebait, owls and so on.

After General Zhang Jun was laid off, Song Gaozong went to Zhang Fu, and Zhang Jun's royal banquet included "wax thread", including eleven items such as shrimp wax, meat wax, milk room and wine vinegar meat.

In Guangnan area, "fish is the best thing, and it will not be bad for ten years." Its method, as well as salt and surface stains, is full of urns. There is a pool around the mouth of the urn, which is covered with a bowl and sealed with water. The consumption of water continues, so it is airtight. "This is indeed a scientific pickling method. In the Song Dynasty, eating puffer fish became a fashion.