Yanzhou (now Meicheng, Jiande County, Zhejiang Province) has a famous dish called salted duck. The raw materials are tender ducks, potherb dried vegetables and various seasonings. It is crispy and delicious after cooking, fragrant and oily, and is famous far and near.

Clean up the ducks that haven't laid eggs, mix dried potherb mustard, fat pork and cooked ham with the juice boiled by Jiang Mo, fennel and licorice, soak the dried vegetables, then slightly cook the ducks in clear water, then put half of the mixed seasoning into the duck belly, evenly spread the other half on the ducks, and cook them for the magistrate to eat. Unexpectedly, the county magistrate praised it after eating it, stipulating that it must be eaten on the fifteenth day of each month. Since then, the salted duck in Yanzhou has been handed down and is still very popular.