What does Bazhen mean?

Eight treasures refer to eight precious foods in China traditional dishes.

This formulation was first seen in Zhou Li's Notes on Celestial Officials.

Doctor, your palm is the same as Wang Zhi's six foods, six drinks, six meals, a hundred vegetables, a hundred sauces and eight treasures.

It should be said that the contents of China's "eight treasures" in past dynasties are different.

For example, "Zhou Li Tianguan" includes spring algae, Chun Mu, piranha, cannibal, Pearl Krabs, water, algae and liver fat.

There are two theories of "profound belief":

One is dragon liver, phoenix marrow, leopard fetus, carp tail, roasted owl, scarlet lips, bear's paw and crispy buttermilk cicada;

One is quince, quince, wild camel's hoof, deer's lips, camel's chyle, roasted swan, Ziyun pulp and Yuxuan pulp.

Abalone is the first of the eight treasures: ginseng (sea cucumber), wing (shark fin), bone (fish bone, also called fish crisp), belly (fish belly), nest (bird's nest), palm (bear's paw), tendon (deer tendon) and frog (clam steamed bread).