First of all, from a big perspective, Jia's food etiquette is hierarchical.
Sister Lin was stunned by her strict dietary regulations when she first entered Jiafu. Cao Gong described the procedure and etiquette of Jia's diet with the help of Sister Lin's eyes. When she first entered Jiafu, Baoyu's mother, Mrs. Wang, could not sit with her niece, but stood beside the case with her daughter-in-law Li Wan and her niece Wang Xifeng.
What Daiyu saw was, "Zhu Jia's wife, Shi Li, holds the rice, Xifeng is well, and Mrs. Wang is in the soup." After serving the grandmother, Mrs. Wang can go back to her room and enjoy the treatment of "master". At the same time, rinse your mouth with tea after meals and wash your hands with water before drinking tea. The cumbersome procedures make the newly arrived sister Lin extra cautious for fear of violating the rules.
Secondly, from the perspective of diet types, the categories are complete, the samples are rich, the ingredients are precious and well-made.
As the home of Zhong Ming, Jiafu is worthy of the name, involving staple food, non-staple food, soup, snacks, fruits and so on 150. Among them, there are some precious ingredients, such as tribute Siamese pigs and bird's nest porridge that ordinary people rarely see. According to Granny Liu's estimation, the crab at a small banquet in Jiafu Poetry Society is worth more than twenty taels of silver, which is enough for Granny Liu's family to spend a year.
Jiafu not only has a rich and complete diet, but also pays attention to the production procedure and is meticulous. Grandma Liu's favorite eggplant is actually a dish with eggplant as the main ingredient and more than a dozen chickens as the ingredients. It also involves mushrooms, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, spiced dried fruits, dried fruits of various colors and other vegetables. The production process is complicated and meticulous, which shows that Jia's diet is exquisite.
Thirdly, from the point of eating and drinking places, Jiafu has luxurious architecture, elegant furnishings, gorgeous utensils, and pays attention to collocation and aesthetics.
Grandma Liu entered the mansion, and the furnishings and utensils mentioned in the novel include "jade plate, broken gold box, nanmu table, ivory chopsticks and ebony inlaid with silver", which are not only luxurious, but also pay attention to collocation and beauty. Needless to say, Grandmother Jia held a big banquet in the flower room during the Lantern Festival, and all kinds of luxurious and precious utensils were found in Cao Gong's pen.
As the spiritual pillar and supreme ruler of Jiafu, Jiamu also likes tea ceremony. The varieties of tea mentioned in the novel are also very rich and complete, including Lu 'an tea, Longjing tea and Daughter tea. The places where you drink tea and enjoy the moon are also quite elegant and beautiful, such as drinking tea in Cui 'an Temple and enjoying the moon in Concave Crystal Pavilion, which is particularly exquisite and elegant.
Finally, judging from the Jia family's eating habits, they pay attention to health, delicious food, no wine or tea, and are unhappy.
For ordinary people, being able to fill their stomachs is a dream come true, not to mention keeping in good health. Jia's diet pays attention to both variety and health. But there are six or seven kinds of porridge. Light as Bijing porridge, greasy as duck porridge, sweet as jujube japonica rice porridge and precious as bird's nest porridge, it can be said that there are many kinds and complete functions.
On weekdays, tea and wine are indispensable for Jia's family, whether it is a big banquet or a small gathering. Xue Baochai once advised Baoyu not to eat cold wine, which would hurt his health. Whenever crabs are served at banquets, more attention should be paid to the collocation of yellow wine to nourish the stomach. The old man, whom the old lady loved, was very pleased to learn that Miaoyu was made of the rain of the old year. And Miaoyu's snow-splashed tea is exquisite to the extreme.
The food culture of A Dream of Red Mansions is mostly reflected in Jia's food etiquette and eating habits. Strict food etiquette, luxurious food furnishings and exquisite eating habits all confirm the luxury of Jia's life. The crops in Jiafu have failed for years, which indicates that Jiafu Building will collapse.
"Now the outer shelf has not fallen, and the inner bag has come up." In Leng Zixing's eyes, Jia Fu lives on empty land, maintaining luxury and exquisiteness on the surface, but he can't escape "in the end, everything is empty".