An example of Li Shen's lavish life is that he likes to eat chicken tongue and eats three hundred chicken tongues per meal. Chicken tongue incense, also known as "chicken tongue" or "chicken incense", is equivalent to tang dynasty chewing gum, and officials like to enjoy this incense. For example, Liu Yuxi's "Xin'en Co-management Canine Tooth Land" yesterday contains chicken tongue incense, Bai Juyi "to Bing's goose quill pen, all contain chicken tongue fragrance", and li Shangyin's "temporarily chasing away the tiger's tooth to the past, far including chicken tongue for the New Year". The Qing Dynasty Chu Ren was awarded the "Jianlu Collection" (wild history novel) to record that the person who ate chicken tongue soup every morning was not Li Shen but the Song Dynasty Lü Mengzheng. Later generations rumored that Li Shen liked to eat "chicken tongue", which was actually a false rumor of "chicken tongue fragrance".
In the late Tang Dynasty, most of the members of the Niu and Li Party were born in the Niu and Li Party, and Li Shen took the imperial examination many times and finally passed the Jinshi Examination in the Yuan and Yuan Years (806), and since Li Shen was "born as a jinshi", why did he still recruit blacks like this?
The idiom "commonplace" is widely believed to describe Li Shen's family as having a large pomp. It was not until the Song Dynasty Taiping Guangji that "Li Sikong" was written as Li Sheng. If liu Yuxi's chronology is the main line, and Li Sikong does have his own person, there is a lot of evidence that he is most likely Li Dai. It can be seen that "three hundred chicken tongues per meal" and "commonplace" have nothing to do with Li Sheng. Li Shen later became the official residence of the prime minister, and also went out of the town of Huainan to check the school Sikong, life may also be luxurious, but there will definitely not be "three hundred chicken tongues per meal" so exaggerated. However, historical records record that Li Deyu, the leader of the Li Party, lived a luxurious life, "each cup of soup, costing about 30,000 yuan, miscellaneous treasures, pearls, male yellow, cinnabar, frying juice for it." Until three frying, that is, discard it in the ditch".
Li Shenzhao is estimated to be related to the fact that he is an important member of the Li Party. The leaders of the Lee Party, Li Deyu, Li Shen, and Yuan Shu, were known as "Three Juns", and both Li Shen and Li Deyu were from the Li clan of Zhao County. Li Deyu hated that Keju entered the army through the door shade, and when he was in power, he canceled the Qujiang feast, which symbolized the flow of jinshi poetry. The final result of the Niu-Li party struggle ended in the victory of the Niu Party, and Sima Guang's "Zizhi Tongjian" did not have a good evaluation of Li Deyu, ignoring the members of the Niu Party to suppress dissidents. It is not surprising that the leader of the Lee Party has been treated in this way, and Li Gentry has fabricated some black history by later notebook novels!