Introduction: The Classic of Mountains and Seas is the oldest rare book in China, and it is also a rare book of ancient geography. It is said that the earliest content was collected by the wizards of Dayu's voyages to the West after they traveled to mainland China and visited foreign mountains and rivers. Covering a wide range of fields, it is an ancient encyclopedia with extraordinary imagination. Anyone who has read Shan Hai Jing knows that there are many rare animals in it. Almost every animal can eat, and it has different functions, just like a complicated cookbook. Do you know which animals are delicious ingredients?

irrigate

"There is a bird on Qingqiu Mountain, which looks like a pigeon. If you listen to it like a pigeon, it is called irrigation, but you are not confused. "

It means that there is a kind of bird called Guan Guan on Qingqiu Mountain, which looks like a turtledove and cries like a curse. If you put its feathers in your body, you won't be confused. This kind of bird itself is not very famous, but Lu Chunqiu's Ben Wei Pian specifically records that "the beauty of meat is roasted by badgers." It means that its meat is very delicious and has become the main ingredient of Shan Hai Jing.

Fu Shang

According to Shan Hai Jing Nan Shan Jing, there is a bird, which looks like a chicken, with three heads, six eyes, six feet and three wings. Their name is Fu Shang, and they have no food to lie down. "

There are too many grotesque birds in Shan Hai Jing, and Fu Shang is just one of them. Some people say that its real body is the genetically modified food chicken (three wings and three legs) in KFC today. "Eat without sleeping" means that it won't doze off after eating. It is said that meat is delicious, and it is a big food.

pig

"Shan Hai Jing" says: "There are wild animals on the floating jade mountain, such as a tiger's tail and a bull's tail, and the sound is like a dog barking. Their name is Bi, and they are cannibals. " In other words, there is a wild animal in Fuyu Mountain, which looks like a tiger, but has a cow's tail. It barks like a dog, its name is Bi, and it eats people.

According to the description of the form, it is basically confirmed that this thing should be a kind of wild boar, so the ancients generally used it to refer to pigs. Wild boar is the most common game ingredient, and its meat quality is better than that of ordinary domestic pigs.

Heluo fish

According to "Shan Hai Jing Bei Shan Jing", it is recorded: "When the mountain is clear, the water will flow out, and the west will flow into the river. Among them, there are many fish, one with ten bodies, and its sound is like a dog barking, and the food is exhausted. " This means that there are many "Heluo fish" growing in the rivers of Qiaoming Mountain. This fish has a head, but it has ten bodies. It makes a sound like a dog barking. People can treat carbuncle by eating its meat.

Some people speculate that this should be said to be a cephalopod squid or octopus now, but the octopus at that time probably lived in fresh water. According to the second volume of Wang Shizhen's Notes on Xiangzu in Qing Dynasty: "In March this year, Heluo fish arrived at the sea, which was delicious, that is, the shark of Ningbo."

Although I'm not sure whether the octopus mentioned by Wang Shizhen is the same fish as that recorded in Shan Hai Jing, the octopus and squid are really delicious now.

Author: white dove