No taste like home Old Confucius was not the only one who was partial to raw fish. Poet Zhang Han of the Western Jin (265--317) was appointed an official in the capital Luoyang. But when the autumn winds began to blow he was so overcome with nostalgia for the thick water-shield soup and sliced raw sea bass of his native Suzhou that he said: "What matters most in life is to be content.
除了孔老夫子喜歡吃「生魚片」，西晉張翰北上洛陽為官，秋風一起，思想起故鄉吳中的蓴菜羹和鱸魚膾，竟覺「人生貴適意耳，何能羈官數千里以要名爵！」