China is a country with a diverse ethnic group with a history of five thousand years of civilization, due to different factors such as geography, climate, living customs and cultural differences, it has formed different local flavor characteristics, and thus formed different cuisines.
But the division of cuisine is not the same, take the eating habits of the Han people, people often think of the first thing that we are familiar with in our daily life of the eight major cuisines, but people often think that it covers all the cuisines of the Han people, but in fact, it is not, in addition to the well-known "eight major cuisines", there are four major cuisines, seven major cuisines, etc., let's take a look at it!
First, there are four major cuisines: they are Shandong Lu cuisine, Sichuan Sichuan cuisine, Jiangsu Su cuisine, and Guangdong Cantonese cuisine.
Eight immortals across the sea to make a fuss about Luohan - Lu cuisine
Back to the pot meat - Sichuan cuisine
Lion's head - Su cuisine
White cut chicken – Cantonese cuisine
Secondly, there are eight major cuisines: Shandong Lu cuisine, Sichuan sichuan cuisine, Jiangsu Su cuisine, Guangdong Cantonese cuisine, hunan hunan cuisine, Anhui Hui cuisine, Zhejiang Zhejiang cuisine, Fujian Fujian cuisine
Dong'an zi chicken - Hunan cuisine
Wuwei plate duck - emblem dish
Dongpo meat - Zhejiang cuisine
Fuzhou fish balls - Fujian cuisine
Third, it is the ten major cuisines: divided into Shandong Lu cuisine, Sichuan sichuan cuisine, Jiangsu Su cuisine, Guangdong Cantonese cuisine, Hunan Xiang cuisine, Anhui Hui cuisine, Zhejiang Zhejiang cuisine, Fujian Fujian cuisine in addition to the eight major cuisines, and then count the Beijing Beijing cuisine, Shanghai Shanghai cuisine.
Peking duck - Beijing cuisine
Braised catfish – Shanghainese cuisine
Fourth, there are twelve major cuisines: in addition to Shandong Lu cuisine, Sichuan sichuan cuisine, Jiangsu Su cuisine, Guangdong Cantonese cuisine, Hunan Xiang cuisine, Anhui Hui cuisine, Zhejiang Zhejiang cuisine, Fujian Fujian cuisine, Beijing Beijing cuisine, Shanghai Shanghai cuisine, plus Shaanxi Qin cuisine and Henan Yu cuisine.
Lamb steamed bun - Qin cuisine
Peking roast duck - Yu cuisine
Fifth, there are fourteen major cuisines: Shandong Lu cuisine, Sichuan Sichuan cuisine, Jiangsu Su cuisine, Guangdong Cantonese cuisine, Hunan Xiang cuisine, Anhui Hui cuisine, Zhejiang Zhejiang cuisine, Fujian Fujian cuisine, Beijing Beijing cuisine, Shanghai Shanghai cuisine, Shaanxi Qin cuisine, Henan Yu cuisine, Liaoning Liao cuisine, Hubei E cuisine.
Chicken stew with mushrooms – Liao cuisine
Huangpi Triad - Ecai
Sixth, there are sixteen major cuisines: Shandong Lu cuisine, Sichuan Sichuan cuisine, Jiangsu Su cuisine, Guangdong Cantonese cuisine, Hunan Xiang cuisine, Anhui Hui cuisine, Zhejiang Zhejiang cuisine, Fujian Fujian cuisine, Beijing Beijing cuisine, Shanghai Shanghai cuisine, Shaanxi Qin cuisine, Henan Yu cuisine, Hubei E cuisine, Tianjin Jin cuisine, Yunnan Dian cuisine and Northeast cuisine.
Fry and cook prawns - Jin cuisine
Cross the bridge rice noodles - Dian cuisine
Sixi balls - Northeastern cuisine
Finally, there are eight new cuisines: divided into Gansu Dunhuang cuisine, Jilin Ji cuisine, Hangzhou Hangzhou cuisine, Shenyang Liao cuisine, Xi'an Qin cuisine, Shanghai Shanghai cuisine, Ningbo ningbo cuisine, Shanxi Jin cuisine.
The above is the overall classification of our major Chinese cuisines, do you remember?