“塩梅”这个词,在日语中是常用的口语,任何日语词典里都有。我过去总以为这是纯粹的日语,其语源决非来自汉语。近读《人民日报》海外版第七版张自中写的“烹调对联欣赏”一文,举例的一联为:曾传宰相调羹手欲识阿衡负鼎心文章解释上联说:“……殷高宗请傅说任宰相时曾说,‘若作和羹’‘尔惟盐梅’,意思是国家需要你,正象调羹离不开成酸一样。” The word “塩 梅” is commonly used in Japanese as a spoken word, in any Japanese dictionary. I used to think it was pure Japanese, its source is never from Chinese. In the recent edition of “People’s Daily” Overseas Version of the seventh edition of Zhang Zhizhong’s “Cooking Couplet Appreciation” one article, for example, a couplet: Have passed the prime minister’s hand desire to understand the balance of heart Describe the couplet said: "... ... Fu said when he was prime minister, ’If you make peace with soup,’ but salt and plum, means that the country needs you, just as the spoon is inseparable from acid.