The most important thing for our ordinary people in the New Year is that a large family of people happily eats a Chinese New Year's Eve meal, and the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty is no exception! How to eat this Chinese New Year's Eve night? The whole table of Man Han steamed up on the table, the Tao Dao delicacies and delicacies, attracted the emperor and empress concubines, princess brothers around together, you chopsticks he a spoon, eat together, while eating and chatting is a happy and harmonious.
But in fact, the gap between film and television works and real royal life is still huge!
The etiquette is strict, the emperor's family is rare to eat together on weekdays, and the emperor eats alone according to the rules. Some new year's festivals, only the concubines are allowed to accompany the banquet.
Full of people
Early in the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the emperor, empresses and concubines would have breakfast together in chonghua Palace, where there was a strong sense of ceremony. Breakfast is generally served with lala (yellow rice), dumplings, rice cakes, etc., and there are more than a dozen or twenty kinds of dishes!
Don't eat too full, the Imperial Chinese New Year's Eve of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at night, and it will not be officially held until Shen Zheng (4 p.m.), and it will take several hours to eat. The location is in the Bohol Temple or the Qianqing Palace. What do you eat? 90 tables, 40 bottles of wine, two people per table, limited to 8 pairs! What exactly are you going to eat? According to the records of the use of ingredients Chinese New Year's Eve night in qianlong, there are roughly 65 kilograms of pork, 1 fat duck, 3 vegetable ducks, 3 pig elbows, 2 pork belly, 3 fat chickens, 7 rookies, 15 meals, 5 Kanto geese, 20 pounds of mutton, 20 pounds of fish, 4 deer tails, 25 pounds of wild boar meat, 15 pounds of venison, 6 pheasants, and 3 large and small pig intestines.
Statue of the Qianlong Emperor
Listen, you may say, most of the things, we can buy in the supermarket now! Nothing too special. Yes, our people's lives are indeed getting better and better now!
Qianlong was still a luxury, and compared to this, his grandson Daoguang was simply miserly to the extreme.
The emperor's meal was originally very rich, and by the time Daoguang came, "everything was reduced from Jane", and the shock was reduced from more than a hundred dishes per meal to only five per day. Once a year, Chinese New Year's Eve rice, Daoguang buckled more tightly, what this and that, all do not, "duck cabbage pot a pin, sea cucumber slip spinal cord a pin, slip pheasant balls a pin, small stir-fried meat a pin, lamb stew spinach a pin, look at this Chinese New Year's Eve rice to eat well!"
Well, the upward and downward effect, the wives of the Daoguang harem can be miserable, the previous regulations were only the daily level of the nobles" 6 pounds of pork, 15 plates of lamb per month, 8 chickens and ducks per month, 2 pounds of white noodles, 2 pounds of white sugar, 3 two 5 dollars of sesame oil, 1 pound of tofu, 6 pounds of sweet sauce, 2 two vinegar, 6 pounds of fresh vegetables, 6 pieces of eggplant... "Too wasteful", "Pop" The Daoguang Emperor is slapping the table, don't you want to be in good shape, eat so much, pass on the will, the Ministry of Internal Affairs from now on, in addition to the empress dowager, the empress, Other concubines were not allowed to eat meat or use cosmetics.
However, Daoguang was a special case, and under normal circumstances, the emperor was not so stingy.
Daoguang Emperor
Chinese New Year's Eve to eat, in addition to the empress dowagers, the emperor also had to summon the Mongol princes and princes, belles and ministers of culture and war. The emperor himself had to have a table for one person again, and if he wanted to eat, let others clip it, and keep a certain safe distance from everyone, he became a lonely man again.
There is a special group of court instruments under the eaves outside the palace, and the atmosphere is also excellent when listening to music and eating.
You will say, Ha, it turns out that the night banquet you mentioned in the previous episode is the reunion Chinese New Year's Eve dinner of the emperor's family!
Yes, for the emperor, home is the country, the country is home, solo music is not as good as the joy of the crowd, eating a reunion dinner must also be enjoyed with the humeral courtiers, compared with the common people, the emperor must do I will not have me, eating is also part of the work.
After the end of the Chinese New Year's Eve meal, if the emperor has not finished eating the meal, together with the exquisite tableware, it will also be rewarded to the close ministers, princes, and county kings, which can also be regarded as a different red envelope for everyone.
The modern Manchus are seated
After talking about this issue, some friends may not be convinced.
We have the impression that the Manchu Han feast is the most luxurious dish of the royal family, you see that there is no Chinese New Year's Eve night, when will they appear on the emperor's table? Quietly tell you: Full of Han, the emperor will not be able to eat at all! Why? Quite simply, it was not the emperor's dish.
If you don't go to it, the Manchu Han Dynasty has never appeared in the court of the Qing Dynasty. The phrase "full of Han Chinese" first appeared in the late Qing Dynasty novel "The Legend of the Flowers on the Sea", which casually said that the dishes were very rich at the time, and there was no record of any specific recipes. At present, some large restaurants launch what is the palace royal banquet full of Han full table 8888, in fact, just the pursuit of a food experience, to meet the "show off" mentality.
Speaking of which, don't be too disappointed! Although there were no full Han chinese seats in history, the emperors could hold a "thousand feasts" in the palace, which can be called the luxurious top of the royal diet
TV series "Kangxi Dynasty" Thousand Sorrows Banquet
Taking Kangxi as an example, on his 60th birthday, he feasted on the elderly who came to The Capital from all over the world to celebrate his birthday in Changchun Garden, and the number of elderly people was very large, more than 1,000, so it was called the Thousand Sorrows Feast. When Kangxi was 69, in order to celebrate his 70th birthday, he held the second banquet of the Thousand Sorrows in the Qianqing Palace of the Forbidden City, and the then 12-year-old Hongli, later Qianlong, participated in this banquet as the emperor's grandson. According to the Kangxi Records, what did the Thousand Sorrows Feast eat? The main categories are snacks, pasta, appetizers, imperial dishes, soup dishes, barbecues and hot pots. The core imperial dishes are: pipa prawns, dragon and phoenix tenderness, meat cubes and cucumber sauce, dragon boat mandarin fish, sauce stewed quail, oil-consuming beef fillet...
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Have you noticed that the most common ingredients in the dish are chicken, duck and fish, which is much worse than everyone imagines! But what is certain is that the historical Feast of a Thousand Sorrows should be the prototype of the Manchu Han Feast!
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