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Yunlintang yinshi zhidu ji 雲林堂飲食制度集

Mar 14, 2024 © Ulrich Theobald

Yunlintang yinshi zhidu ji 雲林堂飲食制度集 is a cookbook written during the Yuan period 元 (1279-1368) by Ni Zan 倪瓚 (1301-1374), original name Ting 珽, courtesy name Yuanzhen 元鎮, style Yunlin 雲林, Huanxia Sheng 幻霞生 or Jingman Min 荊蠻民, from Wuxi 無錫 (in today's Jiangsu province). He much better known as a painter.

The brief book contains more than 50 kinds of seasonings, beverages, dishes and noodle preparations reflecting the culinary style of Wuxi in the Yuan period. From the aspect of cultural history, it is therefore of high value. There are, for instance, recipes like roasted goose (shao e 燒鵝), honey-stuffed paddle crab (miniang youmou 蜜釀蝤蛑), green shrimp rolls (qingxia juancuan 青蝦卷爨), boiled gluten (zhu fugan 煮麩乾), snow-covered vegetables (xue'an cai 雪盦菜), siskin buns (huangque mantou 黃雀饅頭) or cold-rinsed noodles (lengtao mian 冷淘麵). The custom of perfumed teas can be seen in recipes for orange flower tea (juhua cha 橘花茶) or lotus flower tea (lianhua cha 蓮花茶).

The text is found in the series Bililangguan congshu 碧琳瑯館叢書 and Yuyuan congshu 芋園叢書.

Sources:
Qiu Pangtong 邱龐同 (1995). "Yunlintang yinshi zhidu ji 雲林堂飲食制度集", in Zhongguo pengren baike quanshu 中國烹飪百科全書 (Beijing: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe), 715.
Shao Wankuan 邵萬寬 (2019). "Yuandai Yunlintang yinshi zhidu ji shiyin jiyi tanze 元代《雲林堂飲食制度集》食飲技藝探賾", Nongye kaogu 農業考古, 2019 (3): 152-157.
Shi Xuanyuan 施宣圓 et al, eds. (1987). Zhongguo wenhua cidian 中國文化辭典 (Shanghai: Shanghai shehui kexue xueyuan chubanshe), 851.
蜀漢 (221-263)