I finally came across this kind of question. Needless to say, the questioner is a foodie like me and cannot resist the temptation of delicious food. I think most people are the same.

We know that the variety of our food is now much richer than that of ancient people. We are dazzled by all kinds of fruits alone. Fruits from all over the world can be seen in supermarkets, but in ancient times this was impossible.

The lychees had to be rushed eight hundred miles to Chang'an.

However, what kinds of delicacies existed in ancient times but are not available to us in modern times?

Let’s introduce a few below.

The first is all kinds of game. We are now protecting all kinds of wild animals, and we cannot eat the kinds of game that ancient people often ate.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the court particularly liked to eat wild game, among which bear soup was a particularly famous dish. The bear meat was cooked, added with pepper, grass fruits, turmeric, and seasoned with green onions and sauce.

In the Qing Dynasty, bear meat was also served in Manchu and Han banquets. Bear paws were known as one of the eight delicacies and were considered to be the best delicacies.

"Palm" refers to the palm of the black bear, a specialty of Northeast China.

Bears have the habit of hibernating. During hibernation, they make a living by licking their palms. The fluid and grease in their palms seep into the palms, which is one of the reasons why the bear's paws are rich in nutrients. The front right paw is particularly plump because of frequent licking, with a "left"

It is known as Yayouyu".

Among the Manchu and Han people, the main method of cooking bear paw is to steam it, but there are also other methods such as grilling and roasting it.

But steamed bear paws are regarded as the most luxurious way to eat. One of the dishes is called "Pearl in the Palm", which is made with fish yuan, ham slices, and rapeseed hearts.

Fresh and light, it is worthy of being a treasure.

Of course, it is impossible for us to eat bears now, nor can we experience the deliciousness of steamed bear paws, but foodies still want to try this delicacy, so some people use taro instead of bear paws to make similar steamed bears.

Palm, I just don’t know how it tastes.

The second is the lost dishes.

Traditional Chinese cooking has a very long history. When Wai Guoren evaluates China, one of them is that China has three knives that are far ahead of the world, and one of them is the kitchen knife.

However, our traditional cooking is passed down orally between masters and apprentices. There are few systematic teaching materials, and it is useless to just pass down recipes. Craftsmanship is the most important. Therefore, in this kind of inheritance,

Without excellent apprentices, many skills would be lost.

In the imperial dining room of the Qing Dynasty, there were more than forty cooking methods for duck. However, the only one we are most familiar with now is Peking duck, and most of the other cooking methods have been lost.

Not only in the Qing Dynasty, but now we are also faced with the loss of food every day.

As a respondent who has family cooking skills, there are actually only a few types of dishes we eat every day. It is really difficult to eat some dishes with special tastes and combinations of ingredients. Chinese food is also faced with

The dangers of fast food and industrialization.

On the one hand, the pace of life is accelerating, and few people are willing to waste a lot of thought and time on how to make a dish. And the most important thing is that there are more and more industrial condiments now, and any flavor you want can be produced, even for cooking.

Schools also began to teach how to use these condiments instead of using real spices for seasoning as in ancient times.

This has resulted in the taste of various foods becoming increasingly skewed and more and more like the products of an assembly line operation.

For a senior foodie like the respondent, the loss of good food is a huge blow. When you go to a restaurant to eat and a plate of food is served, you know what it tastes without even eating it. After visiting a few restaurants, it’s just these kinds of food.

The dishes, even if I order their so-called specialty dishes, taste like industrial flavors.

Alas, this feeling is really sad.

The loss of traditional skills is often sad, and the loss of gourmet skills is the most sad. I wonder if everyone feels the same.

Food is the most important thing for people. After busy work and life, as foodies, what we care about the most is probably: What to eat for lunch?

What to have for dinner?

Open the takeout app and enjoy authentic Beijing roast duck and fragrant Xinjiang skewers without leaving home. It’s very convenient.

However, we don’t have the opportunity to eat everything, such as some “special” delicacies in ancient times.

Let me introduce to you some ancient delicacies that have disappeared.

(The ancients enjoyed delicious food) The first thing I want to introduce is all kinds of rare game.

In ancient times, there was often a saying of "eight treasures".

Bazhen, according to the raw materials, can be divided into three types: upper, middle and lower.

The upper eight treasures include orangutan lips, hump, bear paws, bird's nests, monkey heads, deer sinews, fish lips, and preserved meat.

Among the eight delicacies are shark fin, fish lip, skirt, civet cat, anchovy, broad belly, white fungus, and hash frog.

The lower eight delicacies include sea cucumbers, scallops, oyster yolks, turtle eggs, red scale fish, asparagus, chicken nuggets, and swallow bamboo shoots.

Sound tempting?

Take the orangutan lips for example.