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Has our current diet really caught up with the "emperor's standard"? 》
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<h1>background</h1>
The other night, I had dinner with a few friends and family.
During the meal, after three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, everyone began to chat, and one of the relatives mentioned: "We are really so happy, this ordinary meal can catch up with the standards of ancient emperors." ”
As soon as this statement came out, it was echoed by many people present, and a new topic was opened: eating, and various life experiences about eating.
After returning home, I recalled the scene of dinner again, and suddenly I thought of the sentence that modern people usually catch up with the emperor's standards with one meal.
My heart suddenly tightened, and in the spirit of finding nothing to do and the attitude of being ready to go back at any time, I looked for relevant information and wrote an article about the diet of the ancient people, especially the diet of the emperor, for the reader to eat.
<h1>body</h1>
The people regard food as the sky, and the country values grain.
Since primitive society, Chinese has been constantly improving the diversity of diets and tastes.
From the primitive people's blood drinking ru mao, to the flavor snacks gradually formed everywhere, and then to the current China on the tip of the tongue... It can be said that the change of eating habits has accompanied the course of the entire History of China.
In the process of this change, the royal diet, especially the dishes and recipes exclusive to the emperor, is undoubtedly the most elite dietary representative of each dynasty.
Coupled with the rendering of film and television works and the publicity of some restaurants (such as the flow of various court dishes into the folk, the descendants of the head of the imperial dining room, etc.), it has stimulated the curiosity of modern people about the emperor's recipes.
Well, without further ado, let's start admiring the recipes of the ancient emperors.
The emperor enjoys the food, which is called the meal, and cooking for the emperor, it is called the imperial meal.
In China's feudal society, the recipes and dishes contained in the imperial diet were naturally exquisite.
From the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, it was stipulated that you should live in the position of the Son of Heaven and eat abundantly.
In the "Zhou Li Tianguan Tianguan Shanfu" is recorded, Zhou Tianzi's diet recipes are roughly divided into six categories: rice, drink, meal, shame, zhen, and sauce.
Each of these categories, in turn, contains a multitude of dishes.
For example, rice includes 8 kinds of rice, such as millet, millet, rice, sorghum, white millet, yellow sorghum, millet, etc., while there are as many as 20 kinds of food, and there are as many as 120 kinds of dim sum foods enjoyed by Shy (Zhou Tianzi)!
Modern people look at the Zhou Tianzi recipe in BC, which is inevitably a little distant and unimaginable.
In fact, for the records of the ancient imperial diet, the Qing Dynasty's "Imperial Diet Menu" should be the most complete, and some of the recipes in it are effortless to read, and we can also imagine what it looks like.
Next, let's take a look at the recipes of the Qing emperors every day and during the New Year.
On the night of the eleventh year of Xianfeng (1861), Chinese New Year's Eve the Qing Imperial Diet List recorded the emperor's "Chinese New Year's Eve meal" recipe:
"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.
Four dishes: bird's nest stir-fried oven duck shredded, fried pheasant feet, small fried carp, shredded meat scrambled eggs.
Two products on a plate: hanging stove duck, hanging furnace pig.
Two products of gluttony: sugar oil cake, ruyi roll. Bird's Nest Eight Immortals Soup.
Counting, counting the last soup, there are 17 dishes!
You may say, this is nothing, friends gather for a meal, casually more than ten dishes.
But in the palace, the emperor ate alone, and no one could share a table with him!
So the above 17 dishes are specially prepared for the emperor alone!
Foodies, think about it, do you feel that the emperor is particularly happy?
Some people may also say that this is Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve meal, and ordinary people's families will eat a good meal for the New Year.
The emperor is no exception and cannot represent the emperor's usual diet.
Then let's take another look at the menu and continue to refresh everyone's cognition.
The Qing Imperial Menu records the recipe for Empress Dowager Cixi's table of breakfast (Note: it is breakfast)
Hot pot two products: lamb stewed tofu, oven duck stewed cabbage.
"Fu Shou Wan Nian" large bowl dish four products: bird's nest "Fu" character pot roasted duck, bird's nest "Shou" word white duck silk, bird's nest "wan" word red and white duck, bird's nest "Nian" word assorted silk.
Four dishes in the middle bowl: bird's nest fat duck shredded, slippery shrimp, three fresh pigeon eggs, braised duck loin.
Six dishes on the dish: bird's nest stir-fried smoked chicken shredded, meat slices fried wings, mushroom stir-fried chicken slices, slippery duck balls, jam, crushed chicken.
Four products of rao: baishou peach, wufu peach, shouyi sugar oil cake, shouyi alfalfa cake.
There is also bird's nest duck strip soup. Chicken noodles, etc.
This time, let's count again, how many dishes does Empress Dowager Cixi have for breakfast?
A total of 24 dishes, or Empress Dowager Cixi exclusive breakfast.
At that time, ordinary people could not imagine the luxury of court food, and even now, few people can enjoy such a rich breakfast every day.
At the same time, the Qing dynasty royal family enjoyed the meals provided by the imperial dining room every day.
The empress, the empress, the noble concubines and others also had their own small kitchens.
And from the emperor and empress to the princess and princess, there are a large number of sub-cases every day.
For example, the imperial concubine, the daily sub-cases are: 8 pounds of meat, 4 pounds of vegetable meat, and 15 chickens and ducks each month.
I can't eat it all, and the waste is amazing.
After all, for the members of the Qing Dynasty royal family, the title is hereditary, life is supported by the imperial court, and the daily luxurious diet has become one of the symbols of their enjoyment of life and the embodiment of royal majesty.
<h1>postscript</h1>
Therefore, some people say that now that what we eat is up to the standard of the ancient emperor, you can use this imperial meal recipe to scare you back.
After all, in the feudal dynasty, the emperor had supreme power and could enjoy endless wealth and food, and no matter how luxurious we modern people were, they would never be able to catch up with the standards of the emperor at that time.
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