Mencius said, "I want fish and bear's paw." You can't have your cake and eat it. You can't have your cake and eat it. "The cooked bear pot is crisp, rotten and slippery, and it has its own flavor. Roasted bear's paw is a famous dish in ancient recipes.
Hump. Camel meat is made of camel meat and can be steamed or roasted. Du Fu's "Two Roads" in the Tang Dynasty: "Jade Chicken Takes Red Camel, Plain Scale Crystal Plate" takes humps and silver scales as examples to describe the delicacy of food and drink life of Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei in the Tang Dynasty.
Deer tail was regarded as a precious food by the ancients. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Beijing banquets were the most important. Wu, the village chief, pays rent to the Jia family every year. The first item is thirty big deer. Deer tail, deer tongue, deer tendon, deer meat, deer blood and deer whip are all delicious dishes and tonics.
Bird's nest. Jin Siyan's nests built on cliffs in Fujian and Guangdong coastal counties are called bird's nests, which were built by Jin Siyan swallowing fish, shrimp and seaweed, digesting them with gastric juice and spitting out mucus. It has nutritional value for human body.
Shark fin, sea cucumber. Shark's fin is dried shark's fin, and sea cucumber is an echinoderm in the sea. In ancient times, shark's fin and sea cucumber were the main dishes in grand festival banquets, which were called shark's fin seats and sea cucumber seats.
Shad At the turn of spring and summer, the annual shad is on the market. The shad lives in the ocean and lays eggs in the Yangtze River and Qiantang River in spring. It is three feet big and is a delicacy among the fishes in China.
Famous ancient foods in China include fish maw, fish lip, scallop, prawn, pheasant cub, wax frog, Heilongjiang frog, Hericium erinaceus and tremella. As for the "dragon liver and phoenix marrow" in court recipes, it is just a rare expression of the emperor's diet. "Dragon liver" was replaced by white horse liver, and phoenix marrow was replaced by golden pheasant bone marrow.