Cooking technology is a manifestation of the progress of human civilization, which began in the Neolithic Age, marked by the maturity and widespread use of pottery, and there are a large number of pottery remains from this period in the archaeology of the Central Plains. More than 4,000 years ago, Xia Qi hosted a banquet for his vassals at Juntai (south of present-day Yuxian City in Henan Province), which is known as the "Enjoyment of Juntai" and is the earliest banquet in China. During the period of the Shang Dynasty and the Yin Dynasty, the culinary system of the Central Plains was completed in terms of the scale of food, food laws, and food systems. Zhou Dynasty court diet, system organization, clear division of labor. The depiction of cooking and eating activities on the Han portrait stones excavated in the Central Plains, such as kitchen and banquet drawings, reflected the process of cooking operations in the Han Dynasty. To the Northern Song Dynasty, the culinary culture of the Central Plains in Bianjing reached an unprecedented height, the store (restaurant), food stores throughout the city, the North and South flavors on the same stage, varieties, technology colorful. Today's scholars describe it as "all the beauty is ready, no beauty is not perfect", and the industry insiders evaluate the technical level of the catering industry at that time with "Chinese Culinary Dictionary". Historically, the culinary culture of the Central Plains has been impacted by the food culture of foreign ethnic minorities, but still stubbornly retains the basic traditions and characteristics of the culinary culture of the Central Plains and continues to this day.

Yu cuisine is one of the oldest cuisines in China, and it is the origin of all major Chinese cuisines. It is called the "mother dish" of the eight major Chinese cuisines by the Chinese culinary industry, and Yi Yin, who is known as "the originator of cooking" and "the ancestor of the Chinese chef", is also known as "the father of the Chinese cuisine". Yi Yin, known as "the originator of cooking" and "the ancestor of Chinese cooks", was born in Qixian County, Henan Province, and Yu Cuisine was once popular throughout the country as a court dish. Yu cuisine began in Xia, Shang, through the Eastern Zhou, Eastern Han, Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties, Sui, Tang, five generations of continuous enrichment and development, to the Northern Song Dynasty, has formed an important cuisine with a unique flavor. Contemporary Yu cuisine is based on the original court food, government food, market food and folk food, according to the material conditions of the Central Plains, the gradual accumulation of evolution and development.

The characteristics of the food culture of the Central Plains is also the embodiment of the idea of "in" and "and", the taste of the center, and the length of the family, both north and south characteristics, because of this, the Chinese people *** and the establishment of the country, the Premier of the State Council, Zhou Enlai after After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the State Council Premier Zhou Enlai, after research by various parties, personally decided to set the Yu cuisine as a state banquet dishes, Henan master chef, until the modern era, China's state banquets are still to Yu cuisine as the benchmark for cooking.