Sashimi's pedigree Dr. Hung Chien-te of Taipei's Yangming Hospital encourages people to eat fish, and has also studied the history of fish eating. He says the "fish sushi" served in Japanese restaurants today has its earliest origins in the raw, marinated minced fish and pork mentioned in the Book of Songs from the late Zhou dynasty (c. 11th century BC--256 BC).
陽明醫院醫師洪建德推廣吃魚，也追溯吃魚的歷史，他表示，今天日本料理店裡的「魚壽司」，最早源自中國周朝末年《爾雅》說的「魚謂之鮨，肉謂之醢」，鮨與醢是魚肉和豬肉不煮熟，只加鹽調理後食用。