Cooking is the process of cooking the processed, cut and matched cooking ingredients into dishes through heating and modulation, which consists of two main elements: one is cooking and the other is modulation. Cooking is heating, through the heating method of cooking raw materials into dishes; tuning is seasoning, through the modulation, so that the dishes taste delicious Chinese name cooking foreign name cook pinyin pēng tiáo meaning cooking modulation note things ㄥ ㄊ ㄧ ㄠˊ citation explanation cooking modulation (food). New Book of Tang - Consort Biography - Empress Wei: "Yang Jun, the Minister of Guanglu, is good at cooking." Song Lu You (宋陸游), "Planting Vegetables": "Vegetable handles are green to ask for medicine seedlings, and black beans and salt are cooked by themselves." Feng Menglong (馮梦龙) "Eastern Zhou Lieguo Zhi (東周列国志) "第三十七回："The royal kitchen cooked the game, and King Xiang gave it to the ministers, who drank it with joy and dispersed it." Sins of the Sea Flower (孽海花)第三三回："[Aunt Zheng] gathered her female disciples, some of whom were tailors, some of whom were cooks, and some of whom were runners for her." Bingxin "Zhang sister-in-law": "The old lady cooks her own food, the food is very delicious." [1]