Recently, "Yanxi Raiders" has set off a boom - whether it is the rules of eating lucky meat or the details of transporting lychees, they are restored very well. But what about hot pot? Where is the hot pot that makes the love of the new Jue Luo family dream? You know, in the "Palace Women's Past Talk", the old palace women recalled the diet in the palace, "for three whole months they were eating hot pot." The love of the rulers of the Forbidden City for hot pot was passed down from generation to generation until the day of the Great Qing Dynasty.
The most famous hot pot kangxi had was on his birthday. At that time, old people from all over the country rushed to the capital to wish him a happy birthday. Kangxi yi was happy, and simply waved a big hand: "Don't go, I invite you!" "This is the first large-scale offline meeting in history: the Feast of a Thousand Sorrows." Although it was called "Thousand Sorcerers", there were actually more than 2,000 elderly people participating, and the imperial kitchen was not busy at all. Say just eat hot pot, convenient, lively, and delicious! The hot pot prepared at the Feast of the Thousand Sorrows is called "Twelve Pins of Wild Game Hot Pot". Just by looking at the menu, you can know Kangxi's high taste and strict requirements for hot pot. Pheasant, venison, and dragon breasts are all good game game, needless to say. Eleuthero and Eleutherococcus senticosus also have cardiovascular maintenance effects, which are both delicious and healthy. This is not that Kangxi deliberately laid out the score, but at that time, the Qing Dynasty official court diet was still Manchu style, and he loved to use the birds and animals common in Nagada in northeast China to cook hot pot to eat.
However, throughout his life, Kangxi did not develop new tricks of hot pot like his grandson Qianlong. Compared with Kangxi's restraint, Qianlong's love for hot pot is warm and direct, and if I love to eat, I will eat it every day, and I can eat more than two hundred meals a year. In the morning of the opening spring, he had to eat the "stewed sauerkraut hot pot"; in early summer, the tribute in the imperial dining room was the "yam duck soup hot pot"; in autumn, his breakfast actually had a "bird's nest onion pepper duck hot pot"; when it came to the winter solstice, he could finally eat a big meal, and at 6 o'clock in the morning, he got up to eat the "bird's nest fat chicken hanging stove duck hot pot"... The Palace Museum still has a delicate and attractive Qianlong royal silver hot pot, and there are clear charcoal burn marks at the bottom of the pot, which shows that the frequency of Qianlong eating hot pot is not low.
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Not only the number of times to eat hot pot, perhaps more southern tours, Qianlong has a special love for suzhou flavors, not only taking "Su Feast" as a necessary feast for New Year's Day parties, but also recruiting famous chef Zhang Dongguan from Suzhou to be the imperial chef, the official residence seven products, has been working in the palace until he can't walk before retiring. As a result, the hot pot painting style of the Forbidden City has changed greatly, for example, Qianlong ate the "Bird's Nest Autumn Pear Duck Hot Pot" in early October of the 21st year, and Qianlong's 43rd New Year's Day Concubine Gathering added "Bird's Nest Fat Chicken Pheasant Hot Pot"... Perhaps the qianlong emperor's greatest wish in life was to quietly take Empress Fucha on a hot pot date.
Although hot pot enthusiasts like Qianlong are already breathtaking, it is Empress Dowager Cixi who really carried forward the hot pot in the Forbidden City. The hot pot of the Qing Palace always has mutton, and Cixi belongs to the sheep, so Cixi personally decreed that the three kinds of roe meat, silver fish and pheasant in the northeast tribute were spelled into the three tastes of "Fu, Lu and Shou", which not only avoided the secret, but also full of blessings, and the careful thinking of the foodies was really delicate. After the coup d'état, Cixi had been plotting to depose Guangxu, so she consulted with the chancellor Xu Tong and invited him to dinner
Show solemnity. As a result, Xu Tong finished eating and wiped his mouth, indicating that I don't remember what you said, anyway, I don't agree to depose the emperor. It is estimated that Cixi must have been full of grievances at that time. People who love hot pot always feel: "There is nothing in the world that one hot pot can't do, if there is, then two." ”
Empress Dowager Cixi's greatest contribution to The Beiping hot pot is that it has driven the atmosphere of "chrysanthemum hot pot". Xu Ke's "Qing Barnyard Bills" in the early Qing Dynasty records that in the winter of Beijing, restaurants often put a small hot pot on the table, the most popular is the "chrysanthemum pot" with chrysanthemum petals, chrysanthemums are pure white, and some chicken, fish fillets, and steamed buns are exceptionally elegant. Deling's "Royal Smoke clouds" also recorded in detail when Cixi traveled to Fengtian by train
The luxurious train meal is said to have four carriages and a chef of one hundred and fifty people. Although according to Mr. Zhu Jiawei's research, this journey is purely imaginary, but if there is really such a trip, with Cixi's persistence, how can there be less hot pot in the train meal?
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