Speaking of people nowadays, they are all meatless and unhappy, in fact, in ancient times, everyone was the same, and there were more meats than modern people. In the eyes of the Song Dynasty for more than a thousand years, they only like to eat one kind of meat, and there is sheep.
It is reported that in the last year of Kaibao, The King of Wuyue, Qian Li, came to visit the Song Dynasty, and in order to express friendship, Song Taizu decided to invite him to eat a kind of food spin carp. This kind of food is to cut the lamb and cook it and make it into a meat sauce to accompany other foods. However, no one thought that this was the beginning of the Song Dynasty people's love to eat mutton, so how much did the Song Dynasty people like to eat mutton?
According to records, during the Song Shenzong period, the imperial palace alone ate 440,000 catties of mutton a year, if you change it to a whole sheep, it is almost more than ten times a day. In fact, there were not many, during the Song Zhenzong period, as many as 350 sheep were killed every day. Whether it is a court banquet or a banquet for other countries, mutton is the main ingredient, and even in the palace, the rule is that only mutton can be used.
In history, a large number of styles of dishes during the Song Dynasty have been recorded, from the court banquet to the people's snacks, the sheep's head with false juice, the milk cooking sheep, the raw soft lamb noodles, the row cooking sheep, etc. are not afraid of not having many styles, afraid that you will eat too quickly. I don't know what your friends think about this?