The classic verses praising mutton delicacies are as follows:
1. "The second rhyme is sent by Churiji Jian" Su Dongpo of the Northern Song Dynasty: Long cuisine has bear wax, while Qin cooking only has yang soup. Translation: Longdi (Gansu) has bear jerky, and Qindi (Shaanxi) likes yokan (mutton steamed buns) the most, which is very delicious.
2. "Drinking Bingchu Lamb Wine" Chao Gongsu of the Song Dynasty: Sha Qingcao is soft lamb fat, and jade fat is suitable for wine. Translation: The weather is sunny and the grass is soft and the lamb is fat. It is a perfect match to eat lamb and drink wine.
3. "Seventy-four of the Ninety-eight Songs of Huzhou" by Wang Yuanliang of the Song Dynasty: The mutton is piled up on a gold plate, and the royal fingers ring three thousand times in the blue sky. Translation: The golden plate was filled with the mutton of the Hu people, and the three thousand imperial fingers resounded throughout the sky.
4. "Fu Hui's Poems on Helin Yangzheng Turtle" Song Wangmai said: I don't envy the mutton of high officials, but I can taste the inferior quinoa soup. Translation: The mutton eaten by the high-ranking officials is not something we can envy, and a bowl of soup made with quinoa is barely enough to eat.
5. Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty in "Jinjinjiu": Cooking sheep and slaughtering cattle is a pleasure, and you will have to drink three hundred cups at a time. Translation: We cook sheep and slaughter cows for fun, and drinking three hundred cups at once (today) is not too much.
Extended information:
1. Li Shizhen, a famous medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica" that mutton can "tonify the body and replenish qi, relieve pain, and treat fatigue and coldness." In the cold winter, eating more mutton is beneficial to human health.
2. Li Gao, a famous physician in the Yuan Dynasty, appreciated: mutton is sweet and hot, and can replenish blood deficiency. It is also a tangible thing that can replenish the energy of tangible muscles. Those with the same flavor as mutton can be tonic, so it is said that tonic can remove weakness, and ginseng and mutton also belong to it.