People in the Song Dynasty ate frogs, also known as frogs.

This is revealed in the writings of literati, such as: "At the end of the year, there is no chicken to cut, so I recommend cooking frogs and frying eels with pine mash." It probably means that if there are no chickens, boil some frogs and fry some eels as a side dish with wine.

This is a poem from "Three Poems of Opera Replies to Shi Ying" written by Huang Tingjian.

There is also a poem about using frogs as a side dish with wine: "How can I get a bottle of frogs and snakes from my neighbor?" It probably means what to use with wine, frogs and snakes given by my neighbor.

This is a poem from "Bing Zi Chong Jiu Er" written by Su Dongpo, a spokesman for the food industry in the Song Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, some people were reused because of their frogs.

In Hangzhou during the Southern Song Dynasty, people have always liked to eat roasted frogs.

Emperor Zhao Gou realized that frogs could eat pests in the fields, so he issued an order prohibiting people from eating frogs.

After the Southern Song Dynasty negotiated peace with the Kingdom of Jin, some people who were taken captive to the Kingdom of Jin were released back, including Zhao Gou's mother.

After experiencing this catastrophe, she focused more on doing good deeds.

She found that frogs are a bit like humans, and gave a big thumbs up to Song Gaozong Zhao Gou's order banning frogs.

Zhao Gou, Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, was very happy when he got the praise. Once he was happy, he issued a ban again, strictly prohibiting people from hunting frogs.

However, Hangzhou people are used to eating frogs. If they don’t eat them, they always feel that something is missing. If they do, they are afraid of violating the ban.

Later, the daring vendors came up with a way: cut open the winter melon, clean out the pulp inside, then put the frog inside and deliver it to the door of the person who wanted to eat the frog; they also called this "giving away winter melon".

There was a man named Huang Gongdu who went to Fujian to be an official.

He liked to eat frogs very much, so he asked the chef to prepare "winter melon" for him.

The chef brought him the biggest and best winter melon, but there was no frog in it, which he liked to eat, and he couldn't tell the chef clearly that I actually wanted frogs, so he had to give it a go.

The more he couldn't eat, the more he wanted to eat. The thought of eating frogs always lingered in his mind.

One day, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and called the chef over and asked him to prepare three kilograms of "sitting fish".

The chef didn't know what "sitting on the fish" was, and asked many people, but they all looked confused.

Someone recommended a knowledgeable person to the chef, who was Lin Zhishan, the state academic at that time. Lin Zhishan thought about it and asked the chef to prepare three kilograms of frogs.

Huang Gongdu was very happy after seeing the frog.

He rewarded the chef greatly and learned from the chef that it was Lin Zhishan who told the chef that the "sitting fish" was a frog.

Huang Gongdu sent people to hire Lin Zhishan as his staff, and also recommended Lin Zhishan to become an official in the court.

This incident was recorded in the Song Dynasty Ye Shaoweng's notes "Four Dynasties Hearings and Seeings". "Four Dynasties Hearings and Seeings" records things that the author personally experienced or heard during the four dynasties of Gaozong, Xiaozong, Guangzong and Ningzong in the Southern Song Dynasty.

The credibility is relatively high.