△ Southern Tang Gu Hong Zhong's "Han Xizai Night Banquet"
Palace banquet
Xu used the word "luxury" to summarize the food fashion in Song Dynasty in his book "Basic necessities of life in Song Dynasty", while the court used the word "luxury". Indeed, the emperors in the early Song Dynasty paid great attention to diet, but by the time of Renzong, the situation had changed. According to Xiao Tinglu, there was once a palace banquet in Song Renzong, and the food served by the chamberlain included "a new crab, 28". Renzong said, "I haven't tasted it yet. How much is it? " The left and right attendants replied: straight 1000. Injong was unhappy and advised, "Don't be extravagant, I can't bear to spend 28 thousand on chopsticks." Do you feel deja vu when you see this? This is the hit drama "Qingpingle" some time ago. In order to please Injong, Zhang Han took a piece of meat from three lambs born five days ago, just to make him a bowl of soup. Injong also reprimanded her after knowing it. Emperor Renzong still knew frugality, but by the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the real extravagance of the imperial court was dizzying.
△ Song Fachang "Shrimp and Crab"
Song Huizong's ability to "taste all kinds of delicious food" has far surpassed that of his ancestors, but he is still not satisfied. He is superior in the use of utensils and ingredients. Once, at a banquet in Taiqing Taoist Temple, Song Huizong personally instructed, "Say:' Set gifts here, set utensils here, offer sacrifices here, eat here and dance here.' Out of the Neifu wine, respect, treasure, glass, Kate Ma, water essence, slope glass, jade, jade, saying,' This must be added to the topic.' Facing the delicious food in all directions, snails, shrimps, white clams, Qiongzhi in the South China Sea and Yurui in Dongling are the wrong sea, and saying' Add water here ...' shows the level, grade and mood of the banquet held in Song Huizong.
△ Song Huizong Evonne's Map of Wen Hui
In Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, Chen, a poet at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, collected a batch of jade food given by the emperor to the prince written by a chef in the court of the Southern Song Dynasty. The details are as follows:
Even when I was defeated, I took some pieces of paper from the jade food batch for the prince, which was also written by my wife. Such as white kidney with wine vinegar, roasted quail eggs with three fresh bamboo shoots, roasted pigeon, grouper, tuba spicy fish, sea salt snake fish, fried tricolor fish, fried wowu, roe lake fish paste, fried frog, herringbone roasted kidney paste, roe catfish, salamander tag, red muntjac, floating wine crab, etc. , green shrimp, spicy pot, tuna, Mullet, vinegar-soaked hoof flower crisp slices, raw bean curd, white coix seed, dried melon seeds, stir-fried white kidney, wine-fried sheep, vinegar-soaked two-animal brain, mixed juice, stir-fried mullet, spicy belly, wine-boiled white fish and so on. Oh! If you serve the world, you must worry about the world first. Otherwise, vegetarian food is guilty, especially the death of your family. Just give one or two examples, such as a sheep's head sign, don't take two wings; Step on the soil fish and stop taking two cheeks; Take slug (swimming crab) as the sign, wonton as the urn, stop taking two pliers, and discard the rest. If you say that you don't eat it from a noble person, then "if you are a real dog." Hey, you can not know the taste of food for a day!
From this recipe, we can easily see that his varieties and ingredients can be regarded as phoenix marrow dragon liver. A Southern Song Dynasty prince's diet is still so extravagant, how can this emperor be modest?
△ Ma Songyuan's "Deng Hua Yanshi Map"
Shi Gui banquet
The number and variety of court banquets are unprecedented for ordinary people. But the luxury of the banquet hosted by the dignitaries outside the palace wall is simply unimaginable.
In the 22nd year of Shaoxing (1 152), in November, Emperor Zhao Gou of the Southern Song Dynasty went to Zhang Jun, the king of Qinghe County, and enjoyed an extremely luxurious banquet. Someone once called it "the biggest banquet in the history of China". How luxurious is it? It can be said that "the first course is thirteen lines and fifteen glasses of wine." There is no interruption between meals, and there are still four after. "The festivals of the royal banquet are as follows:
Embroidered with eight fruit bases: citron, real orange, pomegranate, chestnut, goose pear, milk pear, hawthorn and papaya.
Lexian dried fruit package includes litchi, round eye, torreya grandis, hazelnut, pine nut ginkgo, pear meat, jujube ring, lotus seed meat, porch and steamed jujube.
A line of golden incense drugs: brain flower, licorice, cinnabar aril, clove, water dragon, gentleman, sand flower, osmanthus fragrans, Atractylodes macrocephala, ginseng and olive flower.
Carved plum balls, safflower, carved bamboo shoots, honeydew melon fish, carved safflower, papaya, carved kumquat, green plum lotus leaf, carved ginger, honey bamboo shoots, carved bamboo shoots and papaya square flowers.
A group of fragrant and salty flowers: fragrant medicine papaya, pepper plum, fragrant medicine rattan flower, fragrant cherry, basil, fragrant willow flower, fragrant grape, licorice flower, ginger, plum pie, pink ginger and plum cake.
A line of bacon: pork strips, honey locust collar, Yunmenger, shrimp, meat, milk, snail, Jinshan salted black beans, wine bacon and meat melon.
He put his hand into eight plates: picking bees, Van Pu Tao, Xiang Lian's prayer beads, Balaam seeds, kumquat, new coconut ivory board, small olives and elms.