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Directly subordinate to the official cuisine: each dish is boundless, and every bite is a century-old history

author:Hebei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism

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In order to carry forward Baoding's characteristic food culture, comprehensively call the "Capital of Gastronomic Culture in Northern China" city business card, and continuously enhance the sense of gain and happiness of the general public and tourists, under the guidance of the Publicity Department of the Municipal Party Committee, the Baoding Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, and the Baoding Municipal Bureau of Commerce sponsored the "Taste of Tongue Food • Taste of Baoding Heritage" - 2021 Baoding Food and Culture Festival, since its launch in October 2021, has attracted the enthusiastic participation of many citizens and food lovers, and finally selected Baoding Top Ten Intangible Cultural Heritage Cuisines and Baoding Top Ten Time-honored Foods 3. Baoding Top Ten Cultural Theme Banquet, Baoding Top Ten Internet Celebrity Food, Baoding Top Ten Landmark Food and Beverage Enterprises, Baoding Top Ten Food Culture Inheritors, Baoding Top Ten Food Craftsmen Seven Awards.

"Intangible Cultural Heritage" on the tip of the tongue

Directly subordinate to the official cuisine

Culture is vivid because of food And food is wonderful because of culture In Baoding, there is a well-known cuisine - Zhili Guanfu cuisine It is born "noble", with its own aura It has hundreds of years of history, it can be called the "living fossil" of Chinese official cuisine, its skills have been rated as national intangible cultural heritage, it has participated in relevant catering expositions many times and won awards and is about to appear on the table of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

Directly subordinate to the official cuisine: each dish is boundless, and every bite is a century-old history

Today let's get closer to it directly under the official cuisine

The "taste" high weight of this cuisine is somewhat unusual

The word "zhili" was first seen in the Song Dynasty, when the Ming Dynasty moved the capital to Beijing, calling the area around Kyoto a direct subordinate, which means directly under the jurisdiction of Kyoto. Guanfu cuisine, also known as "Yamen cuisine" and "Gongfu cuisine", is a collective name for the genre of dishes made by the yamen official government in ancient China for the enjoyment of the bureaucratic class. ZhiliGuanfu cuisine is one of the special flavors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties Directly Subordinate OfficialDom, because it originated from the family of Zhili Officials and Eunuchs, so it was named "Zhili Guanfu Cuisine".

Directly subordinate to the official cuisine: each dish is boundless, and every bite is a century-old history

Li Hongzhang stew

The Viceroy of the Qing Dynasty, as a member of the imperial court, had a large number of followers, and one of the most important of the retinue was the official cook. Most of the official chefs directly under the Governor's Office have special skills, not only to master the taste of the ancestral dishes of the Governor directly under the Governor, but also to integrate the court cuisine to meet the needs of political exchanges, and in the long run, gradually formed a prototype of "directly subordinate official cuisine" that is different from the court cuisine.

Directly subordinate to the official cuisine: each dish is boundless, and every bite is a century-old history

Governor Tofu

Zhili has a vast area, rich products, a wide variety of agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing and forestry and other local products, which provides favorable material conditions for the establishment and development of zhili official cuisine, such as Baoding Fu Huaimao sweet noodle sauce, one of the three treasures of Baoding, which is widely used in zhili official cuisine. The cuisine of the ZhiliGuanfu is widely selected and varied. Zhili guanfu cuisine produces exquisite atmosphere, vivid image, highlighting the aristocratic style of the official government; not only pay attention to taste, but also pay attention to texture, fine workmanship, pay attention to wang oil holding juice, bright oil bright; dishes in the fresh, smooth, mellow, dry fragrance on the basis of both multi-flavor, north and south suitable, in the focus on "color, aroma, taste, shape" at the same time, but also added "material, utensils, nourishment" characteristics, that is, the raw materials are exquisite, exquisite utensils, rich nutrition.

The tip of the tongue "intangible cultural heritage" Taoist dishes are full of cultural allusions

With a history of more than 300 years, the cuisine of the ZhiliGuanfu has a profound cultural connotation. In May 2011, the cooking techniques of Zhili Guanfu cuisine were awarded the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects.

Directly subordinate to the official cuisine: each dish is boundless, and every bite is a century-old history

There are more than 100 kinds of classic dishes in zhiliguanfu cuisine, and each dish has accumulated the history and culture of Baoding. The Qianlong Emperor and the fried shrimp duan, chicken bungee, Cixi and "Yangchun white snow", Fang Guancheng and lotus bun loin, Zeng Guofan and Zeng bun fish, fried crab, Li Hongzhang stewed vegetables, Yuan Shikai and steamed oven duck, Lotus Pond Palace and Hibiscus chicken slices, Zhili sea cucumber, Nanpan balls, osmanthus shark fin, dried scallops, Guanfu Six Flavor Bone, Deer Tendon Tai Mushroom Dismantled Chicken and so on.

Directly subordinate to the official cuisine: each dish is boundless, and every bite is a century-old history

Stir-fried crab

According to the "Siku Quanshu And Gaozong Imperial Poetry Collection", in the fifty-third year of Qianlong, the Qianlong Emperor dined at the Zhao Beikou Palace in Baiyangdian, tasting famous dishes such as fried shrimp segments, pine tree lying lotus flowers, fish and shrimp tofu soup, etc., and praised them greatly. And the door is open to the spring sunny afternoon, joint chat and salary running hard. ......”。 "Stir-fried crab" is because the governor of Zeng Guofan likes to eat crabs, but because there is no crab in winter, Baoding famous chefs use eggs, fish and other raw materials to mix out a special dish with crab flavor, but eat crab does not see crab.

Directly subordinate to the official cuisine: each dish is boundless, and every bite is a century-old history

Pot wrapped elbows

There are many historical allusions and celebrity anecdotes about the cuisine of the Zhili Official Palace, but if you eat the dishes while listening to these cultural origins, will you have different feelings?

Inheriting and innovating a number of dishes to be listed on the Table of the Winter Olympics

The cuisine of the Zhili Official's Mansion originated in the Ming Dynasty, flourished in the Qing Dynasty, and declined during the Republic of China. In recent years, it has been excavated and sorted out, and it has been revitalized. More than 400 dishes such as "Li Hongzhang Stewed Dishes" and "Chicken Bungee" became the representative of Ji cuisine, and in 2010, as the only representative of Hebei Province, they entered the Shanghai World Expo; and with the approaching of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the "Yipin Zhili Official Palace Banquet" banquet", "Li Hongzhang Stewed Vegetables", "Chicken Bun Bun", "Pot Bun Elbow", "Catch Fried Fish", "Stir-fried Crab" and other dishes were selected into the Chongli menu, which introduced the Zhili Official's Mansion cuisine to the world.

Directly subordinate to the official cuisine: each dish is boundless, and every bite is a century-old history

Chicken jumping

Inheritance is the foundation, development is the theme, and innovation is the soul. Zhiliguan cuisine develops and innovates in the inheritance, as always exquisite atmosphere, the image is realistic; not only pay attention to taste, but also pay attention to texture, fine workmanship. For example, the "catch fried fish" that looks like a tiger holding its head has added a new special seasoning on the basis of the original sweet and sour taste, which is sweet and sour, suitable for all ages.

Directly subordinate to the official cuisine: each dish is boundless, and every bite is a century-old history

Catch fried fish

These dishes not only maintain their original characteristics of the directly subordinate official palace, but also fully inherit and excavate the rich history and culture. A series of exquisite "ZhiliGuanfu cuisine" is accompanied by interesting historical allusions to Zhili, so that Zhiliguan cuisine has moved towards a new stage of historical development. Zhiliguan cuisine has a long history and culture, and after nearly a hundred years of silence, it has once again been full of vitality, adding a brilliant stroke to China's vast and profound catering culture forest.

Zhiliguan cuisine originated from the folk, and has an aristocratic style with local characteristics, and is compatible with the world's food style, and now as a national intangible cultural heritage, the Zhiliguan cuisine can be described as a delicacy and delicious food, not so much in the feast, but rather a dialogue between taste buds and history

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