China is a big country of food culture, food culture was almost born with the birth of Chinese civilization, from more than 5,000 years ago after the Discovery of Fire by the Fu people, the ancestors began to switch from eating raw food to eating cooked food, and gradually invented the Technique of Heng Rao. In the food world, the most popular is probably game. In ancient times, there was no "ban on fishing", and the types of wild game on the recipe can be described as diverse, but I believe you must not have heard of people who eat "dragon meat", right?
The dragon is a legendary animal, the king of all beasts, and the master of wind and rain. There are legends about dragons that can be described as very rich, and it is recorded in the Shuowen Jiezi: "Dragons, the length of scales, can be mysterious, can be thin and huge, can be short and long, the spring equinox and ascend to the sky, the autumn equinox and dive into the abyss." ”
Regarding the shape of the dragon, the "Materia Medica Wing" also wrote: "Its back has eighty-one scales, with nine and nine yang numbers." It sounds like a copper plate. There is a whisker next to the mouth, a pearl under the chin, and a reverse scale under the throat. There is Boshan on the head, also known as the ruler wood, and the dragon cannot ascend to heaven without the ruler wood. Breath into clouds, can turn into water, but also can turn into fire. ”
It can be seen that the dragon is almost equivalent to the existence of "gods" in everyone's mind, and cannot be compared with ordinary animals. So who is so bold as to dare to eat dragon meat? This is really not a story made up by novelists, but what is recorded in the "Chronicle of History", the first of the twenty-four histories.
"History, Volume II, Xia Benji II": "Emperor Kong Jiali, a good fang ghost god, has nothing to do." The Xia Hou clan declined, and the princes lived in it. Heaven descended on dragon two, there are males and females, kong jia can not eat, can not raise. Tao Tang declined, and then there was Liu Lei, who learned to manage the Long clan kong jia. Kong Jia gave him the surname Yulong (御龙氏) and later FengWei (豕伟). Dragons and females died to eat summer. After summer, it is frightening and migratory. ”
The person who ate "dragon meat" was named Kong Jia, surnamed Ji, and was the fourteenth monarch of the Xia Dynasty. Kong Jia has a reclusive temperament, likes to explore the art of ghosts and gods, is not in the palace, and does not do moral politics. Under his rule, the Xia Dynasty inevitably went downhill.
According to legend, Yao's own Family Tao Tang clan had a descendant named Liu Lei, who had the ability to tame dragons. Kong Jia then summoned him to the palace and let Liu Lei raise the two pairs of dragons he had captured from the Yellow River and han water.
However, dragons are the most difficult animals to figure out, and although Liu Lei has the method of training dragons, it is inevitable that accidents will occur. After a period of feeding, a female dragon suddenly died. Liu Lei was very frightened, so he quietly chopped the female dragon into meat sauce and cooked it for Kong Jia to eat. Unexpectedly, Kong Jia felt very delicious after eating it, and in a few days he asked Liu Lei to cook this meat for him to eat.
Liu Lei was even more frightened, how could he dare to kill the raw dragon and cook it for Kong Jia to eat? So he took advantage of the gap and fled. Kong Jia became the only one who had eaten "dragon meat". Of course, although the "Chronicle of History" records that Kong Jia ate dragon meat, he may have eaten other animals similar to "dragons", not legendary dragons.
It is also said that the "Records of History" is actually a satire that Kong Jia even ate the dragon that symbolized "imperial power", how long can the Xia Dynasty exist? After the fall of the Xia Dynasty, the descendants of the Xia Dynasty changed their surnames in order to survive, because the ancestors of the Xia Dynasty were Dayu, so they all changed to the "Yu" surname, which is now very rare, so if you are a Yu surname, it is likely to be a descendant of Kong Jia.