Historical Records of Salted Duck Eggs in Dongping Lake

Dongping salted duck eggs have a long history, and there were relatively complete written records of salted eggs as early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties. "Qi Yao Min Shu" said: "Soaked ducks can be eaten in January, cooked and eaten, and can be used for both wine and food. Salted eggs and salted eggs float. " Thus, salted duck eggs can be served with wine and food. Li Shizhen, the famous author of Compendium of Materia Medica, said: "It is said that children suffer from dysentery, even if they eat rotten salted duck eggs, sometimes they will get well. Covering duck meat can cure dysentery, and frying salt can also cure bloody dysentery. " This means that salted duck eggs are beneficial to people's health and can treat some abdominal diseases. Because it has many advantages and is cheap and easy to get, "flying into ordinary people's homes" has become a common delicacy in ordinary people's homes.