Sima Qian
All food should be eaten in spring, soup in summer, sauce in autumn, drink in winter. In general, spring is more sour, summer is more bitter, autumn is more spicy, winter is more salty, and it should be smooth and sweet. Cattle are suitable for rice, sheep are suitable for millet, pigs are suitable for millet, dogs are suitable for sorghum, geese are suitable for wheat, and fish are suitable for foxtail millet. In spring, lamb and pig food is suitable for fat and fragrant, in summer, roe and roe food is suitable for fat and fragrant, in autumn, calf and deer food is suitable for fat and fragrant, and in winter, fresh feather food is suitable for fat and fragrant. Beef jerky, deer jerky, pig jerky, millet jerky, deer jerky, elk, deer, pig jerky, all have a xuan, pheasant and rabbit all have a li. Jue, sparrow, cicada, fan, sesame, water chestnut, durian, jujube, chestnut, hazel, persimmon, melon, peach, plum, plum, apricot, hawthorn, pear, ginger, cinnamon. The banquet of the senior officials has sashimi but no jerky, or jerky but no sashimi. The scholars do not have two kinds of soup and meat, and the common people and the elderly do not eat alone. Sashimi: in spring, use onions, in autumn, use mustard and pork; in spring, use leeks, in autumn, use polygonum. Use onions for fat, scallions for paste, three kinds of animals use fennel, and vinegar for mixing, and plum for beasts. Quail soup, chicken soup, quail, use polygonum. Stewed bream and bream, roasted young, pheasant, fennel, but no polygonum. Do not eat young turtles. Remove the intestines of wolves, remove the kidneys of dogs, remove the spine of raccoons, remove the buttocks of rabbits, remove the heads of foxes, remove the brains of pigs, remove the tails of fish, and remove the ugly parts of turtles. Meat is called "tuozhi", fish is called "zuozhi", dates are called "xinzhi", chestnuts are called "zhuanzhi", peaches are called "danzhi", and jujubes are called "zanzhi". When cows moo at night, they are dung, sheep have cold hair and are velvety and smelly, dogs have red thighs and are restless and smelly, birds have the color of deer and make sandy calls and are depressed, pigs look and cross their eyelashes and smell fishy, horses have black backs and arms and leak, and young turtles are not eaten if their tails are not full enough to hold. Relax the green goose, the fat owl, relax the green duck, chicken liver, goose kidney, bustard's belly, deer stomach. Meat that is fishy and fine is called "sui", and the large one is called "xuan". Some people say that elk, deer and fish are "zu", deer are "piji", wild boars are "xuan", and rabbits are "wanpi". Cut onions like scallions and fill them with various acids to soften them. For soup, from the princes down to the common people, there is no order. The officials have no regular meals. When they are seventy, they have a pavilion, the pavilion of the emperor. Five on the left, five on the right, five in the room for dukes, marquises and earls, three in the pavilion, and one on the altar.
