Delicacies of mountains and seas are also called delicacies of mountains and seas, including the upper, middle and lower delicacies of food, which refer to various precious foods produced in the mountains and sea, and generally refer to rich dishes.

The eight treasures are: orangutan lip, camel hump, monkey head, bear paw, bird's nest, duck breast, deer sinew, and yellow lip glue.

Or: orangutan's lips, bird's nest, bear's paw, leopard fetus, deer sinew, toad, hericium.

?The eight delicacies include shark fin, white fungus, civet cat, tripe, anchovy, toad, fish lip and skirt.

Or: shark fin, fish bone, arowana intestine, black ginseng, tripe, abalone, Jiang Yaozhu, abalone.

?The next eight delicacies: sea cucumber, asparagus, mushrooms, Sichuan bamboo shoots, red scale fish, river scallops, oyster yolk, mullet eggs.

Or: Sichuan bamboo shoots, white fungus, mushrooms, hericium, skirt, fish lips, mullet eggs, civet.

Delicacies from mountains and seas are precious and rare foods produced in the mountains and oceans. They are the finest parts of food. Bear paws, bird's nests, shark's fins, sea cucumbers, etc. often played the leading role in ancient recipes.

From Wei Yingwu's "Chang'an Taoist Poems" of the Tang Dynasty: "The treasures of mountains and seas are thrown away from the fence, and cooking lambs is like breaking sunflowers." Translation: Eating delicacies from mountains and seas is like throwing away unwanted things at home; eating cattle and sheep is like eating melon seeds.

A metaphor for living a luxurious life.

Extended information: Bird's nest is introduced as a dish.

The nests built by swiftlets on the cliffs of coastal counties in Fujian and Guangdong are called bird's nests. They are made of mucus spitted out after swallowing fish, shrimp and seaweed digested by gastric juices. They are for human consumption and are rich in nutrients.

?Shark fin, sea cucumber.

Shark fin is processed and dried shark fin, and sea cucumber is an echinoderm in the sea.

In ancient times, grand festive banquets served shark fins and sea cucumbers as the main dishes, which were called fin banquets (shark fin banquets) and sea cucumber banquets.

?Shad.

At the turn of spring and summer, shad come into season once a year.

Anchovy lives in the ocean and spawns in the Yangtze River and Qiantang River in spring. It can be as big as three feet and is the most delicious fish in my country.

Famous delicacies in ancient my country include fish maw, fish lips, scallops, prawns, pheasant cubs, duck breasts, hash frogs (Heilongjiang forest frogs), Hericium mushrooms, Tremella fuciformis, etc.

As for the "dragon liver and phoenix marrow" in Gong Yan's recipe, they are nothing more than precious treasures of the emperor's diet.

The "dragon liver" is replaced by the liver of the white horse, and the phoenix marrow is the marrow of the golden pheasant.