1. It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo.

No meat makes you thin, and no bamboo makes you vulgar.

——Translation of "Yu Qian Monk Luyunxuan" by Su Shi of the Song Dynasty: It is better to have no meat to eat than to live without bamboo.

Without meat, people will lose weight, but without bamboo, people will become vulgar.

2. Eat 300 lychees a day and grow up to be a Lingnan native.

——"One of Huizhou's Unique Things/Eating Lychees" comes from a translation by Su Shi in the Song Dynasty: If I eat 300 lychees a day, I would like to live in Lingnan forever.

3. Wash the pan cleanly, use less water, and the firewood will not burn.

Don't rush him until he matures. When the heat is sufficient, he will be beautiful.

Huangzhou's good pork is as cheap as dirt.

The rich don't want to eat, the poor don't know how to cook. They get up in the morning and take two bowls, so full that the king doesn't care.

——"Ode to Pork" Translated by Su Shi of the Song Dynasty: Wash the pot clean, add a little water, burn firewood and weeds, suppress the fire, and simmer it with a virtual fire that does not emit flames.

Wait for it to cook slowly on its own, don't rush it, when the heat is enough, it will naturally taste delicious.

There is such good pork in Huangzhou, and the price is as cheap as dirt; rich people don't want to eat it, and poor people don't know how to cook it.

I'll make two bowls when I get up in the morning. Don't worry about it when I'm full.

4. The sesame cake is similar to Kyoto, with crispy and oily noodles freshly baked.

——"Sending Hu Pancakes and Yang Wanzhou" comes from the translation of Bai Juyi in the Tang Dynasty: The sesame sesame pancakes are made according to the style of Chang'an. They are fried with fresh sesame seeds so they taste very crispy.

5. Bamboo shoots have just begun to produce yellow horns, and fern buds have just begun to grow small fists.

Try to find wild vegetables and cook fragrant rice, it’s February in the south of the Yangtze River.

——"Poem of Spring Bamboo Shoots in the Swamp" Translated by Huang Tingjian in the Song Dynasty: Bamboo shoots just grow, like the horns of a young ox.

The bracken shoots have begun to grow, like a baby's fist.

People try to find wild vegetables to cook into fragrant meals. This is the beautiful time of February in Jiangnan.