Man-Han Banquet is a grand banquet jointly held by Manchu and Han nationality, and it has always been regarded as the first classical banquet in China. Its scale is grand and noble, and its procedures are complicated. Both China people and Han people eat precious food, with both North and South flavors, and there are more than 300 kinds of dishes. What is the authentic Manchu-Chinese banquet like, and how to classify the dishes? The most widely used menu is the Manchu-Chinese banquet menu recorded in the records of Yangzhou Fang Shu written by Li Dou during the reign of Qianlong Shen Jia. However, there are many speculations about the origin of the Manchu-Han banquet, so it is not clear whether this food list is the most original and authentic. At present, Manchu-Han banquet uses precious materials such as eight treasures of mountain, eight treasures of sea, eight treasures of poultry and eight treasures of grass, and adopts Manchu-Han barbecue, Han stew, boiling and frying techniques, most of which are 108 dishes.

I thought this banquet, as its name implies, should be easy to understand, but I didn't expect to explain it in various ways. But on the whole, it is certain that the banquet specifications are quite high. It is a special high-level banquet to receive distinguished guests, become knights, celebrate birthdays, weddings, funerals and birthdays. Banquets can be divided into several categories, including home-cooked banquets and banquets of emperors and imperial envoys. All kinds of banquets are all-inclusive, and they are the pinnacle of China's banquets, and they completely follow the principle of Confucius "Never tire of fine food, never tire of fine food".

Whole duck pad

Originated from Beijing Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant. Its characteristic is that the banquet consists of all kinds of duck dishes cooked with Beijing stuffed duck as the main ingredient, and there are 100 kinds of hot and cold duck dishes to choose from. Cooking all kinds of dishes with the same main raw material constitutes one of the characteristics of banquet makers. The famous state banquets include: the whole sheep banquet in Tianjin, the whole chicken banquet in Shanghai, the whole eel banquet in Wuxi, the whole snake banquet in Guangzhou, the whole fish banquet in Suzhou and Hangzhou, the tofu banquet in Sichuan, the dumpling banquet in xi, the vegetarian banquet in Buddhism and so on.

Shaowei banquet

Ancient famous banquet.

A banquet specially held for scholars to enter a certain department or get promoted was popular in the Tang Dynasty, which was a typical representative of China's celebration banquet. The word "burning tail" originated in the Tang Dynasty, and there are three sayings: one is that the beast can change people, but the tail can't disappear and can only be burned; Second, it is said that new sheep can only be accepted if they burn their tails when they first enter the flock; Although these two statements are different, they both think that "tail burning" is a ritual, indicating a sudden change from the original identity. Thirdly, it is said that yue longmen, a carp, must be burned by skyfire to become a dragon. This statement originated in the period of Tang Zhongzong. It is said that an official named Yang Zaisi made a table of delicious food with great fanfare in order to kiss the emperor's ass, but when the food was ready, he didn't know what to name the banquet. At this time, he heard someone report: "Longmen Shouyang Ren Jun has arrived!" Hearing this, he remembered the story that the carp needed the sky to burn its tail when it jumped from the Longmen. Thus, the word "burning tail" has an indomitable meaning, and it is a symbol of great prospects, great wealth of officials and boundless emperors.

Wen Huiyan

Cultural banquet is one of the important forms of literary creation and mutual communication of ancient China literati. Free and lively in form, rich and colorful in content, pursuing elegant environment and interest. Generally, more choices are made in places with pleasant climate. Dinner, food and wine, poetry and songs, singing and dancing. Many famous literary and artistic works in history were created at cultural banquets. The famous Preface to Lanting Collection was written by Wang Xizhi at the Lanting Conference.