The Warring States Era's Classic of Mountains and Seas records that people ate turtles and tortoises. A Han dynasty stone carving of kitchen life shows a turtle on the stove. And Detached Accounts, by the Han dynasty scholar Liu Xiang, describes a turtle meat soup that is claimed to be extremely nourishing.
中國在戰國時代《山海經》已有吃龜的記載，漢代留下的石刻庖廚圖裡，灶上掛有烏龜，當時劉向的《別錄》中也記載，以龜肉做羹湯，大補。