We all feel that the emperor, as the Ninth Five-Year Emperor, as the largest person in the whole world, can do whatever he wants. However, it is not so simple, the emperor also needs to abide by a lot of rules every day, what ancestral legal system, state etiquette, a lot. Sometimes it is even less free than the common people. So there are many emperors in history who were unhappy when they were emperors.
Some emperors who like to enjoy themselves are very happy, for example, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty have become strange one by one from their own hearts. But the emperor of the Qing Dynasty was different, he was diligent in government and loved the people, got up early and slept late, and was very self-disciplined. But the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty did not follow the rules and did not even eat as rumored to be a maximum of three bites per dish.
We have all heard of the famous Manchu Han Banquet, which was a court feast during the Qing Dynasty. It is a kind of full table cooperated by Manchus and Han Chinese at the banquet held by the court during the Qing Dynasty, with a total of 108 courses, of which 54 are southern dishes and 54 are northern dishes. It is very tempting that there are meat and vegetarian mountains and seafood in the whole table, and the people who participate in the banquet can eat it happily. So did the emperor only eat three bites of each?
The rumor that the emperor only eats three bites of each dish is also too funny, if that is the case, what is the point of being an emperor? What if the emperor was a foodie? Don't choke yourself to death yet. Some netizens also made up stories to describe this funny scene. The emperor was eating, the eunuch counted again, and by the third bite, the emperor was still unfinished, and the dish on the table had been taken away by the eunuch, and the picture was so beautiful that it was unimaginable.
It is said that the emperor was required to eat only three bites of each dish in order not to let others see his preferences, in order to hide himself, otherwise others who wanted to kill the emperor could poison his favorite dish. This statement is simply funny! Since you want to poison, can't the poisoner poison every dish once? Or poisoning the tableware!
In fact, poisoning is a funny statement. The emperor was not a fool, how could he not guard against such an incident? It was impossible to poison the emperor in the palace, and the tableware used by the emperor was silver. It should be known that the poison is rich in arsenic and sulfur, and when it encounters silver, it will have a chemical reaction, and it will be exposed in minutes.
And in addition to the anti-poison tableware, the emperor also had a large number of tasting personnel. Emperors waited for others to determine the safety of dishes before they began to eat. Moreover, as early as the imperial dining room, it had been strictly ruled out, and how could things close to the emperor be unsafe after layers of supervision and filtering. If it is really so good to poison, how many emperors should have died in these thousands of years.
Many Qing Dynasty historical materials did not stipulate that the emperor ate three bites of vegetables. Not only did he not have this rule, but when the emperor ate, there were eunuchs who recorded which dish he ate more and which ate less. The next time you eat more, you will tell the imperial dining room to do it, and the next time you eat less or even don't eat, you won't do it. Therefore, the people who serve the emperor's meal are basically aware of the emperor's taste.
According to the data, during the Qing Dynasty, one of the dishes that the Yongzheng Emperor preferred to eat was minced meat roasted radish, while the Qianlong Emperor loved rock sugar stewed bird's nest and duck meat and tofu. Of course, the imperial dining room will often do these dishes that they love to eat, how can it be possible to see that the emperor loves to eat, but has the audacity to ask the emperor to eat only three bites?
In fact, the things that the emperor liked to eat were not only unlimited, but even if they were difficult to get, they had to get them. Just like the Jiaqing Emperor loved to eat betel nuts, betel nuts are only produced in the south, and the officials in the south will naturally do their best to give him luck, and no one has poisoned the betel nuts!
Therefore, when the emperor is still very cool and free, especially the small matter of eating, the emperor of course wants to eat what to eat, and order the following to do it. Even staying in the Forbidden City can eat all of China's cuisine.