The ancient poems about food are as follows:
1. Yellow chicken and white wine, you go to the village for an autumn. -Song Dynasty Xin Qiji's Song of Water Tune to Send Yang Minzhan
Translation: When you get home, you will eat yellow chicken, drink white wine, and go to the village to worship the land god, and live a peaceful and interesting life.
2. The sesame cake is like Kyoto, and the crispy and oily noodles are freshly baked. -Tang Dynasty Bai Juyi's "Sending Hu Cake and Yang Wanzhou"
Translation: The style of Hu Cake imitates the style of Kyoto. The taste of Hu Cake is crisp and oily, and it has just been baked.
3. Rub the jade evenly with your hands, and the blue oil will be light yellow and deep. -Song Dynasty Su Shi's Cold Ware
Translation: The fragrant cakes kneaded by women's hands are even in color, and they are light yellow and crispy with blue oil.
4. The crisp slices are full of chelation to make jade, but the golden ones are not melted into sand. -Song Dynasty Yang Wanli's Eight Bad Crabs on Uncle Deyuan's Dish
Translation: The crust on the crab's feet is as crystal clear as jade, and the yellow paste in the crab's abdomen has not completely solidified, just like gold.
5. Holding a pincer prefers the shade of osmanthus, and throwing vinegar on ginger makes you crazy. -Cao Xueqin's Ode to Crabs in Qing Dynasty
Translation: Holding crab tongs, I prefer to have the shade of this osmanthus tree, mashing ginger and putting Jiang Mo in vinegar really makes me hungry.
6. Taste one of the items, and chew two pincers before frosting. -Song Dynasty Su Shi's "Gourmet Fu"
Eat only the best piece of meat at the back of the pig's neck, and eat only the two big claws of the most fat crab before frost.
7. red camel-humps are brought them from jade broilers, and sweet fish is ordered them on crystal trays. -two for the road by Du Fu in the Tang Dynasty
Interpretation: Emerald humps and delicious dishes are served, and plain fish are walked on the plate with refined water.
8. Don't laugh at the muddy wine in the farmhouse, and keep enough chickens and dolphins in good years. -A Tour of Shanxi Village by Lu You in the Song Dynasty
Translation: Don't laugh that the wine brewed in the twelfth lunar month of the farmhouse is not mellow, and the harvest year is very rich.
9. Call the children to cook chicken and drink white wine, while the children laugh and lead people to clothes. -A Tour of Shanxi Village by Lu You in the Song Dynasty
Translation: Don't laugh that the wine brewed in the twelfth lunar month of the farmhouse is not mellow, and the harvest year is very rich.
1. Qin cooks only mutton soup, and bears wax in the dragon. -Su Shi's Song Dynasty's "The Second Rhyme is sent to you from the Sun"
Translation: The cuisine in Qin is most famous for mutton and steamed buns, while that in Longdi is characterized by dried bear meat.