The book is divided into four volumes according to categories at the beginning. In addition to describing 170 kinds of popular vegetarian cooking methods in the late Qing Dynasty, the book also fully discusses the benefits of vegetarianism.

2. Lin Hong's "Shanjia Qing Palace" in the Southern Song Dynasty

The book has a wide range of materials, including vegetables (beans, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, wild vegetables and so on. ), fruits (pears, oranges, chestnuts, apricots, plums, etc. ) and animals (chicken, duck, sheep, fish, shrimp, crab, etc. ) produced in Shan Ye. Write down their names, materials and cooking methods, and there are anecdotes and poems between articles.

3. Yuan Ni Zan's "Yunlintang Diet System Collection"

Ni Zan, who lived in seclusion in Taihu Lake at the end of Yuan Dynasty, wrote this book because of his Yunlin Hall. The book reflects the cooking style of Wuxi local cuisine in Yuan Dynasty. Fish, shrimp, crabs, snails, lakes and vegetables are the most common in the book. More than 50 kinds of diets are collected and recorded item by item. Besides raw materials and ingredients, cooking methods are also explained.

4. Lian's Notes on Drinking and Eating

Sun Zhenren, Huang Tingjian, Su Dongpo and Youyang Miscellanies were introduced in the previous 15 monographs, such as Preface to Ancient Times. There are 253 kinds of diet recipes, including soup, boiled water, porridge paste, noodles, home-cooked dishes, wild vegetables, brewing, sweets, mysterious eating methods, legal medicines and foods, etc., and 18 kinds of diet treatment regulations are recorded.

5. Lu's food collection

The book contains 342 kinds of food, which are divided into seven parts: cereals, fruits, vegetables, animals, birds, insects, fish and water. Each food introduces its taste, toxicity, advantages and disadvantages, functional indications, single prescription and other contents, and also records cooking methods, famous doctors' comments, food aliases and so on. Discussion on the theory of medicinal properties related to the final volume collection.