Hu Sihui

[3] The career of Hu Sihui, as he states in preface to his book,[4] was in the reign of Buyantu Khan in Yenyu years (1314—1320).

As tradition has it, Buyantu Khan, after several years of expeditions and irregular life, was overstrained and suffered acute pain in his kidneys.

The vegetable soup prescribed by Hu Sihui cured the pains in 3 months, and one of Emperor's spouses became pregnant.

Jingtai Emperor of Ming (ruled 1449—1457) personally wrote a preface to an edition of Yinshan zhengyao.

[10] As a culinary encyclopedia, this book made some regional recipes accepted as part of national cuisine of the whole of China.