Shandong Cabbage

Xie Baochen (1850–1926), a late Qing court official who became a herbal doctor, wrote an important vegetarian cookbook, Sushi Shuolue or A Summary of Vegetarian Food, which was published in the 1920s. He advocated vegetarianism, not so much for reasons of health but because the first Buddhist Precept forbids slaying ‘that which hath life’. His book, comprising more than one hundred dishes, many of which are simp