Delicacies from mountains and seas often played a starring role in ancient recipes.

It mainly refers to precious and rare foods in the mountains and oceans, the most exquisite ones, including bear paws, camel humps, deer tails, bird's nests, shark's fins, anchovies, sea cucumbers, etc.

Bear paws: Braised bear paws are a famous dish in ancient recipes.

Bear paw is very precious and rare. It is the best on the plate. It is delicious, smooth and intriguing.

Camel hump: Camel meat hump, which can be steamed or grilled and is a common dish in royal banquets.

There is a sentence in Tang Du Fu's "Beauty's Journey": "The purple camel's peak emerges from the emerald cauldron, and the crystal plate is made of plain scales." The two dishes of camel's hump and silver scales are used as examples to describe the luxurious dietary life of Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei of the Tang Dynasty.

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Deer Tail: In "Red Mansion", the first item in the Jia family's New Year's gift list is thirty large deer.

Deer tail, deer tongue, deer tendon, deer meat, deer blood, and deer whip are both delicacies and valuable supplements.

The ancients regarded deer tail as a precious food.

Among the banquets in Beijing during the Ming and Qing dynasties, deer tail was also the most important dish.

Bird's nest: The nest built by swiftlets on the seaside cliff is called bird's nest. It is made of the mucus spitted out by the swiftlet and is rich in nutrients and beauty.

Shark fin, sea cucumber: Shark fin is made from dried shark fin, and sea cucumber is an echinoderm in the sea.

In ancient times, there were wing mats and sea cucumber mats, which were specially used for grand festive banquets.

Anchovy: Anchovy is a marine fish. They come to the Yangtze River and Qiantang River to lay eggs in spring. The largest ones are three feet long. The meat is delicious and fragrant. It is only marketed once a year. It is the best fish in my country.

my country's famous delicacies include: fish maw, fish lips, scallops, prawns, pheasant cubs, duck breasts, hash frogs, Hericium mushrooms, white fungus, etc.