The foodies I know are: Yi Yin, Confucius, Fan Zheng, Yuan Mei

Yi Yin

Born in Xikongsang Village, Gegang Town, Qixian County, who assisted the Shang Dynasty in Wang Jianli, Shang Tang, he was revered by later generations as a sage in the history of China and worshipped as a "sage of Shang Yuan", and was the first person in history to take a negative tripod. The theory of "harmony of five flavors" and "temperature theory" founded by him are still the unchangeable rules of China cooking. Yi Yin can not only eat, but also cook, which is the highest level of eating.

Confucius:

Confucius' surname, Kong Shi, Mingqiu, the word Zhong Ni, was born in the late Spring and Autumn Period in the country of Lu (now Qufu, Shandong), and his ancestral home was in Liyi, Song (now Xiayi, Henan). He was an ancient thinker, educator and founder of Confucianism in China.

Confucius was a sage and a glutton. More than 2,111 years ago, Confucius advocated that "food is never tired of essence and delicacy", which means that the more refined the food, the better the meat is cut. Confucius is a foodie, not a general foodie. Confucius was very principled in eating, demanding not only the shape of food, but also the cooking techniques and sources of raw materials, and even summed up a set of "eight no-eating" principles, which was simply critical. Thanks to Old Master Q's fastidious diet, Confucius's figure has also kept good. Moreover, Confucius ate a lot of meat, because when describing his study, he also said that he didn't know the taste of meat in March, indicating that meat was his favorite.

Fanzheng

Fanzheng, a nun and a famous female chef in the Five Dynasties, is famous all over the world for creating a "small sample of Wangchuan" landscape platter, which integrates dishes with plastic arts, making dishes full of landscapes and poems.

She was a nun and a famous female chef in the Five Dynasties, and was famous all over the world for creating a landscape platter called "Wangchuan Xiaoxiang". Wangchuan sample is carved and assembled with raw materials such as preserved meat, meat paste, melons and fruits, vegetables and so on. When putting it together, she made the villa scenery based on the 21 landscape pictures of Wangchuan Villa painted by Wang Wei, which made the dishes have scenery and poetry. In Song Dynasty, Tao Gu praised it in Qing Yi Lu Jia Shame Gate: "Bhikuni is upright and exquisite, and he uses preserved tomatoes, pickled melons and yellow-red juice to make a scene. If he sits with 21 people, he will put on a scene and synthesize Wangchuan Villa samples." If you are good at cooking, you will definitely be better at eating. Every chef creates dishes by himself first.

Yuan Mei, a great writer in the Qing Dynasty, has been flaunting himself in the food industry for more than 41 years. I also wrote my own eating experience into a book "Suiyuan Food List", in which 326 popular North and South dishes can be recorded in detail. He also solved the three ultimate philosophical problems in the food industry. What is eating goods? How to be a tall foodie? What is the significance of being a foodie? Food that can treat eating as a realm is definitely delicious.