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What is the name of the food god enshrined in Chinese history?
The god of food enshrined in Chinese history should be Taotie.
Taotie, pronounced tāo tiè, is the fifth son of the legendary dragon and a mysterious monster in imagination. The ancient book "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" describes its characteristics as: a sheep body, eyes under the armpits, tiger teeth and human claws, a big head and a big mouth. He was very greedy and ate whatever he saw. He ate too much and eventually died of starvation. Later, the word "glutton" was used to describe a greedy person.