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

The upper eight treasures:

Orangutan lips, camel humps, monkey heads, bear paws, bird's nests, duck breasts, deer sinews, and yellow lip glue. Or: orangutan's lips, bird's nest, bear's paw, leopard fetus, deer sinew, toad, hericium. ?

The Eight Treasures

Shark's fin, white fungus, civet cat, tripe, anchovy, toad, fish lip, skirt. Or: shark fin, fish bone, arowana intestine, black ginseng, broad tripe, abalone, Jiang Yaozhu, abalone. ?

The next eight delicacies:

Sea cucumber, asparagus, mushroom, 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 a starring role in ancient recipes.

From "Chang'an Taoist Poems" by Wei Yingwu of the Tang Dynasty: "The delicacies of mountains and seas are thrown away from the fence, and cooking lambs is like breaking sunflowers."

Translated as: Eating delicacies of mountains and seas is like losing home. Eating cows and sheep is like eating melon seeds. A metaphor for living a luxurious life. Extended information

Dish introduction

Bird's nest.

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 through gastric juice digestion. They are edible and nutritious. Rich. ?

Shark fin, sea cucumber.

Shark fins are processed and dried shark fins, and sea cucumbers are 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 are on the market 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, white fungus, etc.

As for the "dragon liver and phoenix marrow" in Gong Yan's recipe, they are just precious and rare items from 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.

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