1. Introduction to China Cuisine: China Cuisine is called four flavors and eight cuisines. The four flavors are Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine and huaiyang cuisine. The eight major cuisines generally refer to Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Anhui cuisine, Guangdong cuisine and Fujian cuisine. Good food is not just food on the table. It also includes leisure snacks, all kinds of biscuits, cakes, sugar, candied fruit, dried fruits, meat products, tea and other products, each with its own flavor, which can be called delicious food.

2. The characteristics of China cooking:

(1) has various tastes. Because China has a vast territory and rich resources, there are differences in climate, products and customs. For a long time, many flavors have been formed in the diet. There has always been a saying in China that "southern rice goes north", and the tastes are divided into "sweet in the south, salty in the north, sour in the east and spicy in the west", mainly in Bashu, Qilu, Huaiyang, Guangdong, Fujian and other places.

(2) The four seasons are different. Eating according to seasons all year round is another major feature of China cooking. China has been seasoning dishes according to seasonal changes since ancient times, with strong winter and light summer; Stewed in winter and frozen in summer.

(3) combination of food and medicine. China's cooking technology is closely related to medical treatment. Thousands of years ago, there was a saying that medicine and food were homologous. Using the medicinal value of food raw materials, we can make all kinds of delicious food to prevent and treat some diseases.

China's ancient poems about food;

1) A gust of wind came, the catkins were fragrant, and a girl Wu poured wine and urged me to eat together. -Li Bai's "Nanjing Hotel Parting" in Tang Dynasty

Lanling wine tulips, jade bowls filled with amber light. -Li Bai's Traveler in the Tang Dynasty

We open your window, overlook the garden and fields, and talk about Sang Ma with cups in our hands. -Meng Haoran's Passing Old People's Village in Tang Dynasty

(4) In the next four spring seasons in Luofu Mountain, Lu Ju and Yang Mei are new. 300 lychees a day, I will grow up to be a Lingnan person without hesitation. -Eat Litchi by Su Shi in Song Dynasty

⑤ Don't laugh at the mud wine in the farmhouse, and raise enough chickens and dolphins in good years. -A land tour of Shanxi village in Song Dynasty

⑥ In the afternoon, snow foam and milk flowers float, and Artemisia annua shoots try spring vegetables. Human taste is pure happiness. -Su Shi's "Huanxisha, drizzle and oblique wind like dawn cold" in the Song Dynasty

People come and go on the river, but they love the beauty of perch. Look at those poor fishermen, floating up and down in the big waves and rocking in the boats. -Fan Zhongyan's Fisherman on the River in the Song Dynasty