The TV series "Shangshi" is a costume drama palace food drama directed by Wang Wei and Yun Duomo, and led by Yu Bin, Wu Jinyan and Wang Yizhe. This play tells the story of the beautiful girl Yao Zijin (played by Wu Jinyan) who entered the palace and was selected as a maid of the Shangshi Bureau during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. She continued to grow in the palace and persisted in the pursuit of traditional Chinese cuisine, making friendships and encountering love. , a twists and turns emotional story with Zhu Zhanji (played by Yu Bin?).

In the 19th year of Yongle, the Ming Dynasty had great national affairs and all nations came to visit. In order to receive an endless stream of envoys from all over the world, Emperor Yongle took an eclectic approach and selected women who were good at cooking to enter the palace and serve as the food choices of the Ming Dynasty's Shangshi Bureau. Through multiple selections, the beautiful girl Yao Zijin was selected as the maid of the Shangshi Bureau, and thus became friends with Luo Xingqiao, who was born in a beggar family, and Su Yuehua, the genius chef.

Yao Zijin, who had always been content with the status quo, was encouraged by the two of them, and his interest in cooking really ignited. The three people are full of inventive ideas, independently innovating hundreds of fresh dishes, appropriately integrating them into the Chinese nation's health-preserving medicinal diet, and bringing famous dishes from ancient books to the world again. Step by step, Zi Jin went from being a maid, a female scholar, and a female historian to being the chef and the chef, and his cooking skills gradually improved.