The food doctor is led by the "cook", who is the top manager of the Zhou Dynasty food officials and ranks among the staff sergeant, and the royal diet is arranged by them;
Under the food doctor, there are other kinds of doctors: Dr. Ba is a doctor with the rank of sergeant, who is in charge of royal diseases; Eight doctors are surgeons, second only to doctors, and belong to corporal, who are responsible for treating some skin injuries, fractures and other diseases. Veterinarians, as the name implies, are doctors who treat livestock diseases.
The preparation and cooking of food is the cook's business, and the food doctor mainly manages the taste, coolness and heaviness of the six foods, six drinks, six meals, hundred vegetables and hundred sauces of Zhou Tianzi.
The determination of the cold temperature of diet can be compared with the temperature of the four seasons, that is, the staple food should be warm, the soup should be hot, the sauce should be cold, and the beverage and wine should be cold.
At that time, dieticians also paid attention to the combination of five flavors and four seasons: sour in spring, bitter in summer, spicy in autumn and salty in winter. No matter which season, we should make sweet and smooth food to reconcile and eat, which can moisten the intestines and relax the bowels.
As for the collocation of meat and staple food, food doctors also have appropriate methods: beef with japonica rice, mutton with sticky yellow rice, pork with sorghum rice. Dog meat should be served with small grain rice, goose with wheat rice and fish with long grain rice.
Such a complicated and exquisite diet is for the children of heaven, princes and noble families, but it also fully shows that the ancients put forward a more systematic theory of diet health and fitness as early as more than 2000 years ago. In the palace, "food doctor" ranked first among all doctors, which also showed the importance attached to diet support and diet therapy at that time.