The Four Great Cuisines of China is a general term for Lu Cuisine, Sichuan Cuisine, Cantonese Cuisine, and Huaiyang Cuisine.

The cuisine, also known as gang cuisines, refers to the selection of materials, cutting, cooking and other techniques. After a long period of evolution and self-contained system, with distinctive local flavor characteristics, and for the community to recognize the Chinese diet of the cuisine genre. Chinese Han food culture of the cuisine, refers to a certain region, due to the climate, geography, history, material production and dietary customs of different.

Through a long history of evolution and the formation of a whole set of self-contained system of culinary techniques and flavors, and recognized by the country's local dishes. Chinese people are good at cooking, as early as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, China's food culture in the north and south of the flavor of the dishes showed differences. In the Tang and Song dynasties, the southern and northern cuisines formed their own systems. In the early Qing Dynasty, Lu Cuisine, Sichuan Cuisine, Cantonese Cuisine, and Huaiyang Cuisine became the most influential local cuisines at that time, and were called the four major cuisines.

Cooking Methods

People in different regions have developed different local flavors by using cooking methods such as stir-frying, broiling, pan-frying, poaching, steaming, baking and cold mixing. One of the four traditional Chinese cuisines, Huaiyang Cuisine, Yang that is, Yang Cuisine, Huai that is, Huai Cuisine China is a large country of food and beverage culture. For a long time in a certain area due to the geographical environment, climate and products.

Cultural traditions and national customs and other factors, the formation of a certain affinity inheritance relationship. Cuisine with similar flavor, high visibility. And for some of the masses love the local flavor of the famous genre called cuisine, which, Lu Cuisine, Sichuan Cuisine, Cantonese Cuisine and Su Cuisine for the traditional four major cuisines, plus Zhejiang Cuisine, Fujian Cuisine, Hui Cuisine, Hunan Cuisine is known as the eight major cuisines.