There are many famous foodies in Chinese history. In their eyes, eating is not just for filling their stomachs, but also an art.

The earliest foodie was probably the Suiren family. Before the Suiren family, people ate raw meat from birds, animals and fish.

After Suiren drilled wood to make a fire, he grilled the meat in the fire, and then humans entered the stage of cooked food from raw food.

From this point of view, Suiren is the originator of the invention of barbecue.

There are three very, very famous "foodies" in Chinese history, and these three "foodies" are all literati

Why are they all literati? The main reason is that literati not only know how to eat, they can also write after eating. Precisely because they wrote down their food-related matters, they became famous “foodies” in history.

Confucius, a teacher for all generations, founded the Confucian school and left behind the Four Books and Five Classics, which influenced the next two thousand years. Confucius has a famous saying: You will never tire of fine food, and you will never tire of fine food. That is to say, the more refined the diet, the better, and the more meticulously the meat is handled, the better. This shows that Confucius was very particular about his diet. And after this sentence, Confucius also has several sentences like this: If you eat too much, you will not eat it; if the fish is tired and the meat is rotten, you will not eat it; if the appearance is bad, you will not eat it; if the smell is bad, you will not eat it; if it is not cooked well, you will not eat it; if it is not cooked well, you will not eat it. ; If the cut is not correct, do not eat; if the sauce is not obtained, do not eat. Although there is a lot of meat, it does not make Shengshi Qi. Only unlimited wine is not as good as chaos. Selling wine and selling preserved meat, but not eating. Do not withdraw ginger food, do not eat too much. Confucius used eight words in a row to talk about the importance of his diet. The meat was bad, the color was bad, it smelled bad, it was not cooked well, etc. Confucius did not eat these. It seems that our most holy teacher He is also a "very arrogant foodie".

Many people should have heard of such a dish - Dongpo Pork. You can easily tell from the name that Su Dongpo invented Dongpo Pork.

After the Wutai Shi Case, Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou. There were so many pigs in Huangzhou that the price was cheap. Su Shi liked to eat pork by nature, so he invented the Dongpo Pork recipe. He also wrote an article "Ode to Pork".

Huangzhou’s good pork is as cheap as dung. The rich refuse to eat it, and the poor do not know how to cook it. Start the fire slowly and add less water, and the firewood stove will not produce smoke.

Don’t rush it when it ripens. It will become beautiful when the fire is sufficient. Get up and have a bowl every day, and you'll be so full that you don't care.

Su Dongpo is very famous in history for his love of eating. He openly reveals his foodie nature in many of his works.

"If you eat three hundred lychees a day, you will live a long life as a Lingnan native." When Su Shi was demoted to Huizhou, he tasted the lychees grown in Lingnan and fell in love with this southern fruit. He ate lychees every day and was willing to be banished to Lingnan forever.

The TV series "Iron Teeth, Bronze Teeth Ji Xiaolan" which was popular all over the country at that time made us aware of Ji Yun Ji Xiaolan, a famous writer in the Qing Dynasty. But probably few people know Yuan Mei, who is also known as Nan Yuan Bei Ji with the same name as Ji Xiaolan. Yuan Mei was a famous poet, essayist, literary critic in the Qing Dynasty, and he was also a real gourmet.

Yuan Mei’s dedication to food makes me embarrassed to call him a foodie. Why do you say that? Because Yuan Mei not only knew how to eat and write articles and poems, he also wrote a book specifically about eating called "Suiyuan Food List".

"Suiyuan Food List" contains nothing more than a record of more than 300 ingredients, cooking methods and eating methods of various delicacies from the north and south. Can you still call such a dedicated "foodie" a foodie? He is clearly a serious gourmet!

"Human vegetation" or "Human food"?

After reading "People's Grass and Trees", I knew that celebrity foodies such as Su Shi and Yuan Mei had another like-minded foodie.

When you open Wang Zengqi's "Plants and Plants in the World", what you can see is that there are so many delicious things in this world.

When Wang Zengqi wrote about grapes, he learned about all the grape varieties in the world, and also researched the history of grape growth in China. And how to grow and raise grapes.

When Wang Zengqi studied at the Southwest Associated University in Kunming, he did not attend classes well. He spent all day wondering which fruits in Kunming were delicious and looking for fruit shops everywhere.

Wang Zengqi went to Sichuan and was not very satisfied with Du Fu's Thatched Cottage and did not want to write more about it. However, he liked Sichuan cuisine very much and listed several Sichuan specialties.

After I went to Fujian, I went to Yunxiao to eat fruits and seafood, and then went to Fuzhou to eat fish balls and meatball wontons.

Went to Wuyi Mountain to visit and ate fresh bamboo shoots. Stone chicken, dog meat, snake soup.

When I went to climb Mount Tai, after seeing the scenery, I wrote, "There are more than 100 kinds of wild vegetables that can be eaten in Mount Tai, and there are 31 main ones." After that, he also listed more than a dozen foods he ate there. Plant, and how to cook these wild vegetables.

All the plants and trees in this world are edible. It seems that Su Dongpo and Yuan Mei have another comrade. Being able to eat and write, and being able to upgrade eating to artistic taste, really puts today’s foodies to shame.

This article was first published on Toutiao: Appointment in the Reading Room