What are the eight treasures of the Zhou Dynasty?

The eight treasures of the Zhou Dynasty are not about food, but about the cooking methods of the eight treasures. There are geese, pigeons, pigeons, pheasants and so on. In Zhou Bazhen, there is no mandarin duck.

Chunao (rice with meat sauce), Chunmu (yellow rice with meat sauce), Cannibal (stewed suckling pig), Cannibal (stewed mutton), Daozhen (roasted cattle, sheep and tenderloin), Zhanzhen (beef and mutton with sugar in wine), Aozhen (similar to spiced beef jerky) and Gan Qing.

Extended data

According to the Zhou Li, there are 22 institutions in the Zhou court, and more than 2,330 officials are responsible for the catering affairs of the royal family. They have a fine division of labor and are orderly; The choice and production of court ingredients are all-consuming; Skillfully use dozens of cooking techniques such as roasting, simmering, roasting, stewing and stewing; The worship of "eight treasures" such as Chun Ao, Chun Mu, Shi Ren, etc. shows the high dietary level of the Zhou royal family.

In addition, a large number of bronze sacrificial vessels, such as Zun, Jue, pot and coffin, were unearthed in Yin Ruins in Anyang, Henan Province in the 1920s and 1930s. Through these representative wine vessels, we can also guess the large-scale and rich food system of the Zhou Dynasty.

The ancients would match foods according to their types to make them healthier and more delicious. Zhou Bazhen's "Spring Examination" and "Chunmu" are the embodiment. The original text records that "fried sugar is added to upland rice to make a paste." In this sentence, sugar refers to meat sauce, upland rice refers to rice, and cream refers to cooked oil, similar to bibimbap today. For the royal family, it is indeed beneath their dignity to present food on the table in this form, but for the princes, it is a delicious food that can only be enjoyed when offering sacrifices to the gods.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhou Bazhen