Manchu-Han Banquet
The Manchu-Han Banquet originated in the Qing Dynasty and is the most famous Chinese banquet in history that combines the essence of Manchu and Han dishes.
In the "Yangzhou Shufang Lu" written by Li Dou during the Jiashen period of Qianlong, there is a food list for the Manchu-Han banquet, which is the earliest record of the Man-Han banquet.
The Manchu-Han banquet is an essence of my country with strong national characteristics and local flavor. The dishes are exquisite and the etiquette is exquisite.
It has formed a striking and unique style. The Man-Han banquet was originally a banquet where Manchus and Han people sat together during banquets in officialdom. There are usually at least one hundred and eight kinds of dishes served at the Manchu-Han banquet, which can be eaten in three days. The Manchu-Han banquet uses a wide range of materials, fine materials, and all kinds of delicacies. The cooking skills
are exquisite and full of local characteristics. It highlights the special flavor of Manchu cuisine, and barbecue, hot pot, and shabu-shabu are almost indispensable dishes. At the same time, it also shows the characteristics of Han cuisine, including grilling, deep-frying, stir-frying, stir-frying, and roasting, etc., which is truly Chinese cuisine.
It is a cultural treasure.
Introduction to six kinds of banquets>>>
Full Banquet between Manchu and Han Dynasties (1) Mongolian Banquet
This banquet was hosted by the emperor of the Qing Dynasty to entertain the Mongolian relatives who were married to the royal family. A royal banquet. Generally, banquets are held in the Tianzheng Daguang Hall
Ming Palace, accompanied by first- and second-grade Manchu ministers. Emperors of all dynasties attached great importance to this banquet and held it regularly every year. The Mongolian relatives who received the banquet regarded this banquet as a great blessing and cherished the food that the emperor rewarded during the banquet. The article "Qing Bailei Chao*Meng
Returning Home with Blessings at a Banquet" says: "The Mongolian princes of the annual class came to the capital to be rewarded with food, so they must go, saying
Bring blessings back home. If there are no utensils, put them in your outer coat and put them in a flat gold embroidered snake, which is often soaked with soup and dripping with water. No regrets
It is also a Man-Han banquet. (2) The Courtier's Banquet
The Courtier's Banquet is held every year on the day after the Yuan Dynasty, that is, the 16th day of the first lunar month. At this time, the emperor personally appoints the bachelors and those with meritorious deeds among the nine ministers
Those who participate in the Guxing banquet are honored. The banquet is held in the Fengsan Selfless Hall, and high chairs are used during the banquet, and poems and drinks are held every year. Also participate. The emperor used this favor to win over his subordinates, and at the same time it was a symbolic form of merit for the courtiers.
Manchu and Han Banquet (3) Longevity Banquet
p>The Longevity Banquet was a birthday banquet for the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, and it was also one of the grand banquets in the inner court. Concubines, princes, civil and military officials all took great pride in celebrating their birthdays with famous food and delicacies. There are countless dishes. If it is a birthday, the celebration will be even more grand.
The department will send special personnel to prepare clothes, decorations, music, dances and banquets.
On Cixi's sixtieth birthday, an edict was issued in the 18th year of Guangxu's reign. A few months before her birthday, the banquet had already begun.
The painting "Longevity without Borders" was made in Qianjiangxi. There were more than 29,170 pieces of various glazed bowls, dishes, plates and other porcelain with inscriptions and auspicious and festive patterns. The entire celebration cost nearly 10 million taels of silver, which was the highest in Chinese history. It is unprecedented.
The Man-Han Banquet (4) Thousand-Sou Banquet
The Thousand-Sou Banquet began in Kangxi and flourished during the Qianlong period. It was the largest banquet in the Qing palace and had the largest number of banquets. Grand Imperial Banquet
The first banquet for a thousand people was held in Yangchun Garden in the 52nd year of Emperor Kangxi's reign. The name of the banquet. In the fiftieth year of Qianlong's reign, a Thousand-Senior Banquet was held in Qianqing Palace, with three thousand people, and they improvised a hundred couplets in Bailiang style. In the first month of Jiaqing's first year, a Thousand-Senior Banquet was held in Ningshou Palace. In the Ji Palace, there were 3,500 people at the banquet, and they composed three poems impromptuly. Later generations called the Qiansou Banquet an "unprecedented act of kindness and courtesy." /p>
Man-Han Full Banquet (5) Nine White Banquet
The Nine White Banquet began during the Kangxi period when Kangxi first designated the four tribes including Mongolian Waisak to express their surrender
< p>Be loyal, and pay tribute to Jiubai every year, that is, one white camel and eight white horses. After the Mongolian tribes paid tributeThe emperor entertained the envoys at a banquet, which was called Jiubai. Feast. It happens every year.
Later, Emperor Daoguang wrote a poem about it
It goes: Four pairs of silver flowers and one jade camel, Western Qiang presented to the emperor Jingluo at the end of the year
Full Banquet of Manchu and Han Dynasties (6) Festival Banquet
Festival banquets refer to the banquets organized by the Qing court according to fixed annual festivals and seasons. Such as: Yuanri Banquet, Yuanhui Banquet, Spring Festival
Plowing Banquet, Dragon Boat Festival Banquet, Qiaoqiao Banquet, Mid-Autumn Festival Banquet, Double Ninth Festival Banquet, Winter Solstice Banquet, New Year's Eve Banquet, etc., all are determined according to the festival, and follow the rules
Just follow the example. Although the Manchus had their own inherent food customs, after taking over the Central Plains, they accepted a large number of Han food customs due to the blending of Manchu and Han cultures and the needs of governance.
And because of the special status of the palace, food customs were formulated in detail. Its food style
is closely related to folk customs and regions. Therefore, Laba porridge, Yuanxiao, rice dumplings, ice bowls, realgar wine, Chong
Yang cakes, Qiqiao cakes, moon cakes, etc. Instruments are readily available in the Qing palace.
Manchu and Han banquet recipes
(1) Mongolian Banquet
Tea table tea ceremony: ancient music accompaniment - Manchu and Han maids presenting white jade milk tea
< p>Desserts upon arrival: Tea knife-cut almonds, bergamot, crispy apple cakesFirst item in the box: dragon and phoenix gold-painted box and dragon plate column (with eight items of dried fruit preserves)
Four Hidden fruits, tiger skin, peanuts, strange flavor, large flat milk, white grapes, snow mountain plums
Four sweet preserves, candied apples, candied longans, fresh peaches, candied green plums
To celebrate your birthday with incense: banquet with ancient music - Burning incense into the banquet
Five appetizers: Dragon and Phoenix, Hong characters, chicken shreds, cucumbers, melons, braised pork tenderloin, spicy belly shreds, New Year characters, mushrooms, nostrils
Four pastry dishes: Yushan beans Yellow sesame roll, golden cake, jujube mud cake
Four pickles: Palace cucumber sauce, black cabbage, sugar garlic pickled water mustard peel
Serving the ring pulp: Music accompanies the banquet-Manchu and Han maids worship Guizhou Maotai
First meal soup: Longjing bamboo fungus
Third imperial dish: Anchovy fin, red plum beads, fragrant Kung Pao hare
Second pastry: Bean flour pastry Milk Sauce Corner
The third imperial dish: Stir-fried frog, coriander and pigeon with two flying dragons
The third imperial dish: Eight-treasure duck, bergamot and golden rolls, fried shredded cuttlefish
< p>Second Pastry: Golden Sparrow Ruyi RollThird Dish: Fried Fish Fillets with Hydrangea and Scallops in Guinea Fowl Milk Sauce
Third Dish: Dried Lianfu Sea Cucumber Flowers Colorful Beef Tenderloin with Mushrooms and Duck Feet
Second Pastry: Uncooked Meat Pancakes and Longxu Noodles
Second Barbeque: Roasted Roe Deer with Pheasant in a Hanging Oven, served with lotus leaves and rolled onions Sweet Noodle Sauce
Third Royal Vegetables: Mountain Delicatessen, Dragon Buds, Lotus Buds, Tofu, Straw Mushrooms and Broccoli
First Porridge: Red Bean Porridge
First Fruit: Seasonal Fruits The first platter
Farewell tea: Xinyang Maojian
(2) Courtier’s banquet
Beautiful tea: Shifeng Longjing
Four dried fruits Products: Honey, peanut, strange flavor, cashew nut, walnut sticky apple gummy
Fourth category of preserves: Candied ginkgo, candied cherries, candied melon strips, candied golden dates
Fourth category of pastries: Jade Bean Cake, Chestnut Cake Two-color bean cake and bean paste roll
The fourth pickle: sweet soy sauce, radish, five-spice cooked mustard, sweet sour milk, melon and sweet combination
The seventh appetizer: magpie climbing plum blossom, butterfly roll, ginger fish Slices of five-spice pigeon, sweet and sour lotus root, pickled green cauliflower, spicy cabbage rolls
Soup No. 1: Guan Yan
Five dishes: Braised deer tendon chicken, shredded tremella, sweet-scented osmanthus fish strips in casserole Eight-treasure Rabbit, Dingyu, Bamboo Shoots and Bracken
Second Pastry: Cixi Small Wotou with Golden Shaomai
Fifth Imperial Dish: Luohan Prawn Skewers, Deep-fried Scallops, Braised Beef Tenderloin with Scallions Chicken in Oyster Sauce, Fresh Mushrooms and Cabbage
Second Pastry: Lama Cake, Almond Tofu
Mountain Delicatessen, Fried Quail with Braised Red Scallops
Second Pastry Food: Downy chicken with bean paste and apples
Roasted dish three: White grilled fish lips, braised fish bones and green onions, roasted shark skin
Barbecue food two: Sliced-skinned suckling pig and Uighur roast mutton. Pancakes with green onions and sweet sauce
The first porridge: Huiren rice porridge
The first fruit: the seasonal fruit platter
Farewell to the fragrant tea: Zhulan Generous< /p>
(3) Longevity Banquet
Beautiful Lady’s Tea: Lushan Yunwu
Fourth Dried Fruit: Milky White Zaobao Two-color Gummy Candy Stir-fried Large Flat Cocoa Peach Kernels
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The fourth category of preserves: candied pineapple, candied red fruits, candied grapes, candied water chestnuts
The fourth category of pastries: golden cake roll, adzuki bean cake, lotus seed cake, pea yellow
The fourth category of pickles: sweet-scented osmanthus Chili sauce, mustard, purple spice, dried coriander, cucumbers with oil
First item in the box: dragon and phoenix gold-painted box with dragon plate and pillars attached
Five-spice sauce chicken tenderloin in brine and red oil duck spicy noodles
Chicken with Osmanthus Sauce, Tomatoes, Horseshoe Oil, Braised Mushrooms with Pepper Oil and Tremella Fungus
Four Appetizers: Coral Cabbage, Longevity, Spiced Prawns, Beef in Salted Water, Beef with Xinjiang, Red Oil Venetian Leaf
The first meal soup: Changchun deer whip soup
The fourth imperial dish: Jade palm to celebrate longevity
Mingzhu Tofu, Shouwu Chicken, Diced Baihua Duck Tongue
Second Pastry: Longevity Dragon Face Noodles and Baishou Peach
Fourth Royal Dish: Stewed White Phoenix with Ginseng and Dragon Egg, Father and Son Enjoy Mountain Treasures Large leaf celery
Second pastry: Periwinkle rolls, chrysanthemum and bergamot pastry
Fourth dish: Braised round fish with golden legs, hand-roasted wild goose, peach kernel, mountain chicken, diced crabmeat and double bamboo shoots Silk
Second Pastry: Ginseng Fruit Walnut Cheese
Fourth Dish: Pine Hericium Mushroom, Cuttlefish Soup, Lotus Leaf Chicken and Beef Tenderloin, Stir-fried White Mushrooms
Barbecue The second dish: Chicken and sesame seeds and venison skewers on hanging stove sand plate
The first porridge: Rare black rice porridge
The first fruit: The first seasonal fruit platter
Farewell Fragrant Tea: Jasmine Bird's Tongue
(4) Thousand Old Man's Banquet
Beauty's Tea Presentation: Junshan Silver Needle
Four Dried Fruits: Weird Walnuts Crystal gummy spiced cashew peanut sticky
Fourth category of candied fruit: candied oranges, candied crabapples, candied bananas, candied plums
Fourth category of candied fruits: calendula, longan, aiwowo jam, golden cake, two-color water chestnut cake
p>The fourth pickle: Royal radish, grape honey sauce, spicy cucumber, osmanthus, kohlrabi sauce, peach kernels
The seventh appetizer: Erlongxizhu, tangerine peel, rabbit meat, strange flavor chicken strips, heavenly fragrant abalone, three sponge gourd rolls, shrimp roe Winter Bamboo Shoots, Chili Oil, Wild Wild Rice
First Soup: Canned Braised Fish Lips
Fifth Royal Dishes: Sha Zhou Tiao Green Pipa, Prawns, Dragon and Phoenix Tender Sesame Oil Meal Paste, Diced Pork and Cucumber Sauce
Second Pastry: Thousand-layer Steamed Cake with Assorted Flower Baskets
Fifth Imperial Dishes: Braised Dragon Boat Anchovy with Slippery Scallop Sauce, Braised Quail with Oyster Sauce, Beef and Sichuan Sauce and Duck Feet
Paste The second item of pastry: phoenix-tailed Shaomai multi-colored hand-made dishes
The fifth item of imperial cuisine: the first item of tofu, three immortal meatballs, enoki mushrooms, pickled vegetables, chicken breast, fragrant sesame venison cake
The second item of pastry : Jade Rabbit, Cabbage and Four-Xi Dumplings
Second BBQ: Yushan Roast Chicken and Grilled Fish Fan
Game Hot Pot: Twelve Served Plate
First Item: Deer Meat slices, Feilong breast, roe deer spine, pheasant slices
Wild boar, wild duck breast, squid rolls, fresh fish meat
Aralia elata, large leaf celery, acanthopanax and fresh bean sprouts
Porridge The first dish: Lotus leaf meal porridge
The first fruit dish: The first dish of seasonal fruit platter
Farewell tea: Yanghe Spring Green
(5) Nine Hundred Banquet
Beauty's tea: boiled milk tea
Four types of dried fruits: sesame seeds, rock sugar, walnuts, spiced almonds and pineapple gummies
Four types of candied fruits: candied longan, candied Laiyang pear, candied water chestnuts Candied betel seeds
Four items of pastries: Glutinous rice cold cake, kidney bean rolls, pigeon glass cake, creamy pineapple jelly
Four items of pickles: Beijing spicy vegetables, spicy cucumber strips, sweet and spicy dried mustard seeds
p>Seven appetizers: Songhe Yannian, mustard jasmine, duck feet, spicy quail, sesame fish, cashew nuts, celery heart oil, braised fresh mushrooms, tomatoes in honey sauce
Soup one: Toad soup
The first imperial dish: Braised Kirin Noodles
The fourth hot stir-fried dish: Dragon Crab, Spicy Tendons, Oolong and Spicy Beads, Three Fresh Dragon and Phoenix Balls
The second sweet pastry: Mignonette Cake Jade noodle gourd
First imperial dish: Golden toad and jade abalone
Four hot stir-fried dishes: Mountain delicacies bracken, salt-fried meat and fragrant cooked roe deer spine, lake rice and wild rice
Second Pastry: Golden Horn Crystal Plum Blossom Buns
First Royal Dish: Colorful Fried Camel Hump
Hot Stir-Four: Wild Duck, Peach Rend, Stir-fried Squid, Box Tofu Crispy Fried Golden Cake
p>Second Pastry: Lotus Roll
Second Barbecue: Grilled Deer Breast of Guinea Fowl
First Porridge: Lotus Seed Porridge
First product of fruit: First product of seasonal fruit platter
Farewell tea: Dongting Biluochun
(6) Seasonal banquet
Beautiful tea: Fujian Wu Dragon
Fourth category of dried fruits: milky white almonds, persimmon frost, fudge, fried cashew sugar, fried peanuts
Fourth category of candied fruits: candied duck and pear, candied dates, candied lychees, candied honey apricots
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Fourth Pastry: Whip Rong Cake, Bean Paste Cake, Coconut Cup and Mandarin Duck Roll
The fourth pickle: Spicy milk melon slices, pepper sweet sauce, ginger tooth sauce, sweet snails
The seventh appetizer: Phoenix wings, panda crab meat, shrimp roe, winter bamboo shoots, five-threaded starch, five-spice mandarin fish, spicy cucumber, orange peel and beef
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The first dish of the meal: canned braised pheasant and shredded bird's nest
The fifth dish of the royal dish: fresh abalone in raw shell, roasted partridge, stir-fried red chicken, bean sprouts and pearl fish balls
Second Pastry: Double Ninth Festival Flower Cake, Dried Pine Nuts and Seafood
Fifth Imperial Dish: Braised Hericium Mushrooms, Shark's Fin, Smooth Duck Breast, Stir-fried Shredded Eel, Cashew Nuts, Deer and Steak Fish Maw Rolls
The second item of pastry: hibiscus banana roll moon cake
The fifth item of imperial cuisine: steamed fresh stir-fried seasonal vegetables, stuffed mushrooms, lotus leaf chicken, Shandong sea cucumber
The second item of pastry: seasonal dim sum, dumplings in soup stock< /p>
Second barbecue dish: Roasted duck and roasted pheasant in the oven
Pancakes with sweet noodles and sauce, green onions and melon sticks
Radish sticks, white sugar and garlic paste
The first porridge: Laba porridge
The first fruit: the seasonal fruit platter
Farewell tea: Yanghe Chunlu