I would say that the emperor of the Qing Dynasty ate white slices of meat without any condiments for the New Year, and many people will say that I am nonsense. But it is true that according to the customs of the Qing Dynasty, every New Year,from the emperor to the ordinary Manchu bannermen, they must sacrifice the gods with boiled meat, and this sacrificial meat is the white piece of meat mentioned above. After the sacrifice, the emperor distributed the removed sacrificial meat to the scholars to taste.
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The Brahma Records say: "In the Qing Dynasty's New Year's Greetings, every time the courtiers were given meat, they did not mix with other tastes, cooked very badly, cut into large plates, and the subordinates worshiped and received, and the etiquette was the most important, which was still customary in Manchuria." The "Continuation of the Pavilion" also says that every spring festival, the royal family holds a ceremony to sacrifice the gods in the Kunning Palace, and the emperor brings the kings of the inner and outer domains, Belle, the auxiliary ministers, the six zhengqings, and others to eat the sacrificial meat together. The emperor sat facing north, and the princes and ministers wore python robes and made up clothes, saluted the gods and the emperor, and then sat down to eat the sacrificial meat together.
It is supremely honorable to be eligible to participate in the ritual of sacrificing the gods and to eat the sacrificial meat with the emperor. According to "Listening to the Rain", there are strict rules for what level of officials to eat and what part of the meat, which cannot be confused. By the way, as an official, according to the custom of the Qing Dynasty, the place of eating should be paid great attention to, and officials are not allowed to enter the theater and tavern to eat, otherwise once discovered, they must be dealt with severely.
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Of course, the emperor's Chinese New Year's Eve meal is still very rich, and we can see everything by looking at the Chinese New Year's Eve night of the eleventh year of Xianfeng (1861), the Chinese New Year's Eve little emperor Zaichun," who had just reigned. "Wannian Ruyi" large bowl dish four products - bird's nest "wan" word gold and silver duck, bird's nest "nian" word three fresh fat chicken, bird's nest "such as" word pot roast duck, bird's nest "meaning" word assorted chicken shredded; Four kinds of huai bowl dishes - bird's nest slip duck strips, silk pigeon eggs, chicken silk wings, and duck waist; Dish four products - bird's nest fried oven duck shredded, fried pheasant feet, small fried carp, scrambled eggs with shredded meat; Two products of the plate - hanging stove duck, hanging furnace pig; Two products of gluttony - sugar oil cake, ruyi roll; Bird's Nest Eight Immortals Soup.
From the Chinese New Year's Eve meal of this four- or five-year-old emperor, we can always see the figure of Cixi, and this Chinese New Year's Eve meal is completely prepared according to Cixi's hobbies, and from this we can also see the arbitrariness and arbitrariness of Cixi, the empress dowager. If Zaichun is still lucky, then the Guangxu Emperor Zaixiang had a very sullen year. The food from the imperial dining room did not meet Guangxu's taste, and Guangxu complained to Cixi for a few words, but he did not expect to be reprimanded by Cixi: "Those who are superior also pay attention to the end of the mouth? Why carry the ancestral teachings alone!" Frightened, Guangxu no longer dared to speak.
Once, guangxu met Cixi during the New Year, and Cixi was eating tangyuan, and asked Guangxu in passing whether he had also eaten tangyuan. Guangxu had just eaten when he came, but he did not dare to answer truthfully, lying that he had not eaten. Cixi sent a few tangyuan and asked Emperor Guangxu to eat them in person. When Guangxu finished eating, Cixi asked him if he had eaten enough, and the Guangxu Emperor said, "No." Cixi also asked the Guangxu Emperor to eat a few more, so many times, and finally could not eat anymore, the Guangxu Emperor quietly tucked the tangyuan into the sleeve, and when he returned to the palace, the Guangxu Emperor's sleeves were all sticky tangyuan, inside and out of a mess, wanted to change clothes, but the small shirts worn inside had long been searched by Cixi, there was no way, had to borrow someone else's small shirt to wear, only to count things. Think about it, how could such a little emperor not be afraid of Cixi?
The emperor of the Qing Dynasty, like the common people, ate the most Chinese New Year's Eve rice, of course, dumplings. In the "Meal File" of the Qing Palace, it was recorded that Guangxu ate meat dumplings during the New Year: "On the first day of the first lunar month, Banzai Ye boiled the dumplings in the Yangxin Hall. The first time into the pork longevity vegetable stuffing boiled dumplings thirteen; Pork spinach stuffed boiled with thirteen dumplings. "The boiled dumplings here are the dumplings. In the Qing Dynasty, "dumplings", "water dim sum", "boiled dumplings", etc., were all the titles of dumplings.