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# The Betrothal Feast in Vlas Doroshevich's Satirical Novel “Mu-Xiang”
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- Published: 2026-11-15T20:13:03.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-15T20:30:14.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: The East, Books, Mores, Humour

> They were served stewed spoiled eggs, roast suckling pig, seaweed, ginger preserve, goose livers, shark-fin soup with crab roe, toasted almonds, soup with pigeon eggs, ham and chicken, boiled young bamboo, green peas, boiled chicken with bamboo shoots, bird's-nest soup with eggs and ham, fried frogs with bamboo, ham and chicken sauce, boiled sturgeon spinal cord with onions, truffles, roast thrushes with salad, duck with a garnish of 52 kinds, smoked fish, chicken roasted together with its giblets, boiled crabs with flower petals, mushrooms, chrysanthemum petal sauce, champignons, fried oysters, pasties with jam, pasties with dates, pasties with almonds, sponge cake, dumplings with pork, sea greens soup, bean pasties, salted eggs, sea snail soup, spinach, nutmeg pie and salted cucumbers with sugar

Should your appetite fail, simply recall this betrothal banquet from Vlas Doroshevich's satirical "Chinese novel" "Mu-Syan", the tale of a youth named Mu-Syan and his beloved, the lovely Tszin-Tszin, who on the road to happiness run up against absurd laws, treacherous mandarins and gruelling trials