1. Shanzu: Shanzu was the chef of Duan Wenchang, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, and he was very proficient in the selection, processing and production of delicious food. On this basis, the 51 chapters of Duan Wenchang's Classic of Food handed down from generation to generation were achieved. Duan Wenchang's son, Duan Chengshi, is a wonderful book named Youyang Miscellaneous, and a large part of the family dishes in the book were also created by his ancestors.

2. Brahma: Brahma is a nun. According to Tao Gu's "Qing Yi Lu", "Bhikuni is upright and exquisitely crafted. He uses fried, preserved, pickled, sauced, melons, vegetables, yellow and red to make a scene. If he sits with twenty people, he will put on a scene and synthesize Wangchuan Villa samples." This platter, based on the drawing of Wangchuan Villa, the secluded place of the poet Wang Wei in the Tang Dynasty in his later years, can be described as having color, shape and meaning.

3. Liu Niangzi: Liu Niangzi is a chef in Zhao Gou, Song Gaozong. After Song Gaozong ascended the throne, he became a chef. According to the regulations, a woman can't be a chef. But Song Gaozong just likes to eat her cooking, and there is nothing she can do, so she has to make an exception.

4. Song Wusao: In the Southern Song Dynasty, Song Wusao opened a restaurant outside Hangzhou, and was best at making fish soup. According to Song Zhoumi's Old Wulin Story, on March 15th, the sixth year of Chunxi in the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Gou traveled to the West Lake by royal boat, which was near noon. Attendants told him that there was a restaurant with delicious fish soup, so Zhao Gou went to Song Wusao to cook on the boat and praised the delicacy after eating. To this day, Wusao Song is still regarded as the "ancestor of stewed fish".

5. Dong Xiaowan: Dong Xiaowan was one of the "Eight Gorgeous Women in Qinhuai" in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. She was also very accomplished in food, and her peach cakes, watermelon cakes and chrysanthemum cakes were all beautiful, which attracted countless scholars to admire her more and more.

6. Xiao Meiren: Yizheng, who lived in Jiangsu at that time, was best at making snacks. In the Qing Dynasty gourmet Yuan Mei's Menu with the Garden, there is a snack named Xiao Meiren. "Outside the south gate of Yizheng, Xiao Meiren is good at making snacks, such as steamed bread, cakes and dumplings, which are small and lovely and white as snow." Yuan Mei's love for Xiao Meiren's dim sum reached a feverish level. He once sent someone to Yizheng to order 3,111 dim sum.