Song people had a special liking for juicy fat meat in the heyday of diet, because fat meat can give people more energy than lean meat, so eating fat meat will make people hungrier, which is very beneficial to people at the bottom of society. Moreover, fat meat tastes better than lean meat, and it is juice after eating, which is very appetizing.
Before becoming an official, Zhang Qixian, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, often ate a few catties of fat at a meal because of poverty and greed. After he became prime minister, he was called a "good man" by people at that time.
Ouyang Xiu's Gutian Record has the following description. "Zhang Poshe (Zhang Qixian) has a strong physique and a moderate diet. He especially likes to eat fat pork, and each piece has to eat several kilograms. " In addition, people in Song Dynasty often worried that they were not fat when entertaining VIPs. In other words, they were afraid that fat meat was not enough to eat and ignored the guests. Liu Kezhuang, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, once wrote in "Three Poems-One": "In the mountains, you will have enough fat to talk about, and in the class, the sheep will have a good meal."
Song people had a special liking for juicy fat meat in the heyday of diet, because fat meat can give people more energy than lean meat, so eating fat meat will make people hungrier, which is very beneficial to people at the bottom of society. Moreover, fat meat tastes better than lean meat, and it is juice after eating, which is very appetizing. In addition, according to the Tokyo Dream Record, Song people also invented such a kind of meat, which is called fried meat ("fried" means "boiled"), so fried meat is also called cook the meat. The living standard of the people in Song Dynasty was not high, so of course they needed oil and water.
However, the "fat man" in Liangshan is completely different from the "fat man" in the general population. "Injong Palace is hungry at night, thinking about rice and burning sheep. Song Renzong Zhao Zhen was hungry in the middle of the night and wanted to cook mutton. Mutton is mostly court food, and ordinary people only eat pork. Pork is delicious and cheap, so there are many delicious pork dishes. Lu You's Caigen Tan: "Dongmen pig is more strange, and its fat is not reduced." Lu You praised the delicacy of barbecued pork, which was no less than roast mutton.