What happened between the emperor and his empresses can basically be summarized as "every night is not empty." For example, the monarch of the Zhou Dynasty chose a concubine as his bedroom, which was decided by the day, month, star and morning. In the Han dynasty, the queen and Mrs. Yipin had absolute priority, and the following nine wives took turns; During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there was a dissolute Emperor Wu of Jin who picked a concubine with a sheep cart. In the Tang Dynasty, the harem attendants restored the order of the Zhou Dynasty, which was based on the full moon and the lack of the moon. Everyone is most familiar with the Qing Dynasty. The emperor turned over the signs every day to see who was who.
In a word, emperors of all ages are models who love and cherish life. There are flowers that can be folded straight, and there is no need to fold branches without flowers. It is even recorded in the official history that Zhao Zong in the Southern Song Dynasty spent more than 30 flowers in one night, which is a model worker in the world.
Therefore, some people have such questions. The emperor is not a real "son of heaven" fairy. They are human, too. How can they eat every day?
Under the impetus of this question mark, experts and scholars have participated in the decryption, and all kinds of unofficial history secrets are rampant, such as Sanyi Dan, Yishen Dan, Baoshen Dan, Kuai Nv Dan, Chong Fei Dan, Baoming Dan, Virgin Dan, Yi Nv Dan, Dechun Dan, Yuxian Dan, Albizia San, Lengshi San, Chunsan, Xiangtou San, Yixiaosan, Fang and so on.
The emperor holds the world's first-class resources, so it should be possible to hire an alchemist to strengthen the yang. Ying Zheng, Zhu Hou and others have done such a thing. However, one thing needs to be clarified. In addition to relying on aphrodisiac drugs, most emperors in history also believed in the existence of aphrodisiac food, and all medicines were right.
Let me summarize the recipes of emperors in past dynasties to see if there is any aphrodisiac effect.
Tang dynasty emperor recipes
Emperor Taizong, who had a frugal diet, loved bamboo shoots and Shaolin Babao Crisp best. Bamboo shoots are rich in protein, amino acids, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene and vitamins. Shaolin Babao Crisp is a crisp food made of Ganoderma lucidum, Hericium erinaceus, Tremella fuciformis, Ginkgo biloba, Auricularia auricula, black tea fungus, Lentinus edodes and Poria cocos, which has dietotherapy effect, can strengthen tendons and activate collaterals, refresh and strengthen the body. It is a traditional food for Shaolin monks and has a history of more than 1000 years.
That is to say, Li Shimin's recipe can probably be inferred as: a bowl of rice, fried bamboo shoots, tremella and ginkgo soup, plus a meat dish, in which phytohormones and serotonin in the meat dish are enough to eliminate the swelling of the prostate and achieve the effect of aphrodisiac.
Song dynasty emperor cookbook
I have already introduced the aphrodisiac menu of the Song Emperor in my previous article. For example, Song Huizong likes beef, mutton and donkey meat, but he didn't get fat in middle age.
Zhao Gou, Emperor Gaozong, likes to eat bullwhip and tripe. Although I didn't have children in the end, I lived for a long time. Emperor Du Like Zhao Zong is a pure seed emperor, and aphrodisiac is tantamount to seeking death.
Ming dynasty emperor recipes
Besides, since Zhu Yuanzhang, Ming Chengzu didn't like eating once and for all. What do you mean "once and for all"? The production process is like this: a catty of pigs, cattle and sheep are chopped into stuffing; Half a catty of shrimp skin is pounded into powder; Celery, fennel, Sichuan pepper, Chinese prickly ash, almond and red bean are smashed into powder; Twelve shredded ginger; A catty and a half of wax; A catty and a half of wheat sauce; A pound of onion; A kilo of salt; Sweep the weeds and cut them in half. First, heat it with a catty of sesame oil, then stir-fry the meat together, and then put it all in the pot, much like today's hodgepodge. After cooling, it is sealed and stored, and can be eaten at any time.
This dish has an obvious aphrodisiac feature, namely "zinc" and "androsterone". Health experts point out that zinc is related to reproductive ability, sexual ability, * * and sexual endurance. Zinc supplementation is easy. One gram of lean beef can provide half of the daily needs, while an oyster or half a catty of shrimp skin can cover the whole day. In addition, grains and beans are also good sources. In addition, celery, fennel, pepper and so on. It can promote male body to secrete a hormone called androsterone, which is low in calories and high in fiber, and also helps to clean teeth and breath.
The emperors of the Ming dynasty also had a hobby, that is, they generally liked to eat dried fruits, fish, seafood, beef, mutton and donkey meat. Limited by the length of the article, they can't list them one by one, but they can draw up a brief menu as follows.
Breakfast: a cup of reed bud soup or milk, plus steamed snacks such as mutton buns, persimmons, lychees, round eyes, chestnuts and cooked dates, and even a few pieces of donkey's head meat. Lunch: Grilled clams, fried fresh shrimps, frog legs, dried bamboo shoots, sea cucumbers, mullet, shark tendons, fat chicken, pig's trotters and other vegetarian dishes, rotten bamboo shoots, mushrooms, pine nuts in Liaodong, thistle yellow flowers, gold needles, Du Zhongshan medicine, potatoes and other vegetarian dishes, and drink muddy wine.
Dinner: winter bamboo shoots, whitebait, pigeon eggs, spicy live rabbits, weasels beyond the Great Wall, live shrimps under the ice, roast goose, roast chicken, roast duck, roast pork, cold-cut sheep tail, stir-fried lamb tripe, pig enema, etc. A bowl of rice with fried celery, gingko soup or bird's nest soup. There are many categories. Here are the main ones. )
Such a rich diet is simply the best natural aphrodisiac, which not only satisfies the appetite, but also exerts the "chemical reaction equation" of diet as much as possible to help the emperor erect every day and maintain the happiness in bed.
Qing dynasty emperor recipes
The greatest pioneering work of the Qing emperor was the "Manchu-Han banquet", and its extravagance and waste was probably more for showing off and belonged to the category of image project. But Zhao Yan can still find some specific recipes. For example, for breakfast, there are bird's nest, red and white duck, Nanxian hot pot, stewed tofu with wine, steamed duck, pork and deer's tail, bamboo tube roll, Shu Fei, Ying Fei, Yufei and Jincai, cakes, enamel sunflower box and enamel silver plate, all of which are included with the meal.
In addition, there are four more tables: No.2 yellow bowl dish with four items, shredded mutton with one item, * * * eight items, * * thirteen items, one table with fifteen items of cakes, eight items of vegetables and one table with two sides of mutton.
Have you discovered the mystery? Gan Long seems to like ducks very much. In addition, deer tail, bird's nest, mutton, * * *, and some pasta are very "scientific". Strangely, this breakfast was also arranged as an aphrodisiac recipe. What does he want? Did you just get up and have to flip the sign again? Just kidding. During the Qianlong period, the New Year's Eve dinner was more abundant, and on this basis, 22 kinds were added, reaching 75 kinds.
It is estimated that the emperors of the Qing Dynasty were all nomads, and they all had a special liking for venison. For example, Kangxi held a thousand banquets, including two hot pots, a pork slice, a sliced mutton with roe deer, a roasted venison with deer tail, a fork with roe deer mutton, four bowls of meat dishes, a sushi oven dish and two snail boxes. "Roasted venison with deer tail", not bad! A man can't stand the Spring Festival. I really don't know what Kangxi thought. Could it be that the old ministers collectively visited the eight hutongs?
The 494 emperors in ancient China (from Ying Zheng to Xuan Tong) were basically very particular about eating, insisting on three dishes and one soup. I'm afraid there is no one but Li Shimin. Although they eat well and in a variety of ways, they seem to be in line with "sex science" While eating complementary food, they always remember to take medicine to supplement, but their average age is only 39 years old, which is a tragedy.
In fact, there should be a sentence behind the sentence "medicine is better than food", "food should be supplemented in moderation". There is nothing wrong with food aphrodisiac, and there is nothing wrong with loving and enjoying life, but there is a limit to everything, and it is not good after this limit. Some flowers can be folded straight, but in the end they will lose their lives, which is not worth it.