Manchu-Han banquet dishes are exquisite, and the etiquette is exquisite, forming a striking and unique style. Before taking a seat, offer two pairs of glasses, tea and hand dishes; There are four fresh fruits, four dried fruits, four ornamental fruits and four candied fruits on the table. After sitting, cold dishes are served first, followed by hot stir-fry, Chinese cabbage and beet. The Manchu-Han banquet was divided into six seats, all named after the famous banquet of the Qing palace. Collect many famous Manchu and Chinese dishes, choose fresh seafood and search for rare animals. The banquet includes 196 cold dishes and hot dishes, 124 snacks and tea, and 320 dishes. Use a full set of pastel tableware with silverware, rich and gorgeous, and the dining environment is quaint and solemn. During the dinner, famous teachers were specially invited to play ancient music. Following the elegant legacy, the etiquette is rigorous and solemn, inheriting the traditional virtues, and serving the guests in the palace week, which makes people linger. After a hearty meal, you can appreciate the essence of China cooking, the origin of food culture and enjoy the supreme spirit of everything.
[Edit this paragraph] Six kinds of banquets
Man-Han Banquet (1) Mongolian Pan Banquet
This banquet is a royal banquet hosted by the Qing emperor for Mongolian relatives who married into the royal family. Generally, a banquet is held in an aboveboard hall, accompanied by the first and second ministers of the Qing Dynasty. Emperors of all dynasties attached great importance to this feast and held it every year according to the rules. Mongolian relatives who accepted the banquet regarded the banquet as a great blessing and cherished the food given by the emperor at the banquet. The article "Qing Yuan banknotes * Bring blessings to the banquet family" said: "Prince Meng and others will go to Beijing to give food, saying that they will bring blessings to their families. If you don't have tableware, you should wear it outside. Ping Jin embroidered pythons, which are often stained with soup, are dripping with nothing.
Man-Han Banquet (II) Courtier Banquet
The courtier banquet was held on the 16th day of the first month at the end of Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the emperor personally ordered the university students, and those who made meritorious deeds in the Nine big noble attended, and those who gave a banquet were honored. The banquet is held in Fengsan Selfless Hall, and the banquet follows the imperial banquet ceremony. They all use high chairs, write poems and drink alcohol every year. Mongolian princes and others also participated. The emperor used this kindness to gather the princes, and it was also a symbolic form for the courtiers to make contributions.
Manhan Banquet (III) Wanshou Banquet
The longevity banquet is the birthday banquet of the Qing emperor and one of the grand banquets of the imperial court. Empresses and princes, civil and military officials, are proud of providing birthday gifts. In the meantime, there are countless delicious foods. In case of a major birthday, the celebration will be more grand and grand, and the department will send someone to take charge of it. Clothing and jewelry, decoration and furnishings, music and dance banquets are all available. On the 10th day of October in the 20th year of Guangxu, Cixi celebrated her 60th birthday. In the eighteenth year of Guangxu, the imperial edict was issued, and a banquet was held about two months before her birthday. There are more than 29 170 pieces of glazed bowls, plates and saucers painted with longevity words and auspicious and festive patterns in Jiangxi. The whole celebration cost nearly12 million taels of silver, which is unprecedented in the history of China.
Man-Han Banquet (4) Thousand Banquets
Thousands of banquets began in Kangxi and flourished in Qianlong. It is the largest royal banquet with the largest number of diners in the Qing Palace. In the fifty-second year of Kangxi, a banquet for thousands of people was held in Yangchun Garden for the first time. Michelle Ye wrote a poem "Thousand Banquets" and won the banquet title. In the fifty years of Qianlong, a banquet was held in Gan Qing Palace for 3,000 people, and hundreds of white couplets were improvised. In the first month of the first year of Jiaqing, the imperial court of Ningshou Palace hosted a banquet for more than 1,000 people, including 3,566 people, and composed more than three impromptu poems. Later generations called the Thousand Banquets "an unprecedented act of grace".
Man-Han Banquet (5) Nine White Banquets
Nine hundred banquets began in the reign of Kangxi. In the early years of Kangxi, Mongolian Wesak and other four tribes paid tribute to nine white horses every year, namely, a white camel and eight white horses. Think of this as a letter. After the Mongolian tribe presented a tribute, the emperor held a grand royal banquet to entertain the envoys, which was called the Nine White Banquet. Obey the rules every year. Later, Daoguang once wrote a poem about it: Four Lotus Flowers and One Jade Camel, Xiqiang Lao and Xian Di Luo Jing.
Man-Han Banquet (VI) Festival Banquet
Festival banquet refers to the banquet held by the Qing court according to the fixed holiday season every year. Such as: Yuan Day Banquet, Banquet, Spring Farming Banquet, End Lunch Banquet, Beggar Banquet, Mid-Autumn Festival Banquet, Double Ninth Festival Banquet, Winter Banquet, New Year's Eve Banquet, etc. Everything is in accordance with the rules and regulations of the festival. Although Manchu has its own dietary customs, after entering the Central Plains, it accepted the dietary customs of the Han nationality in large quantities under the needs of the integration and rule of Manchu and Han cultures. Due to the special position of the imperial court, the rules of food customs are all detailed one by one. Its diet style is closely related to folk customs and regions, so there are all kinds of utensils such as Laba porridge, Yuanxiao, Zongzi, ice bowl, realgar wine, Chongyang cake, Qiao Qi cake and moon cakes in the Qing Palace.
[Edit this paragraph] Full menu
There are 108 dishes in the Manchu-Han banquet:
(1) Mongolian pro-pan banquet
Tea table: ancient music accompaniment, Manchu maid, white jade milk tea.
Snacks: tea and knife cutting, almond bergamot, crisp apples and wishful cakes.
Box-protecting products: dragon and phoenix depicting gold, box-protecting dragon brand column (with eight candied fruits)
Sixi Dried Fruit: Tiger Peanut, Qidabian, Milk White Grape, Snow Mountain Plum.
Four sweet candied fruits: candied apples, candied longan, candied peaches and candied plums.
Offering incense to prolong life: ancient music accompanies the banquet, and incense is burned into the banquet.
Five appetizers: dragon and phoenix, shredded chicken and cucumber red, roasted pork tenderloin with melon, spicy belly silk with Chinese characters and seaweed with Chinese characters.
Four treasures: royal bean paste, sesame roll, golden cake and jujube paste cake.
Four kinds of pickles: court cucumber, pickled black vegetables, sugar garlic and pickled mustard tuber skin.
Worship the ring paste: music banquet, Manchu maid worship, Kweichow Moutai.
First-class soup: dictyophora longjing
Three kinds of royal meals: phoenix-tailed shark's fin, red plum and pearl fragrance, and Kung Pao rabbit meat.
Two products: bean flour cake and milk horn.
Three products of imperial cuisine: flying with dragons, stir-frying frogs and brewing pigeons.
Three kinds of royal meals: Babao wild duck, bergamot golden roll and fried cuttlefish shreds.
Bobo's two products: canary and wishful roll.
Three kinds of royal dishes: dried scallops with hydrangea, fried guinea fowl and fish fillets in milk.
Imperial food: Lianfuhai dried ginseng, mushroom duck feet, colorful beef tenderloin.
Bobo's two products: minced meat biscuits, Longxu Noodles.
Barbecue two products: hanging pheasant, raw roasted meat, lotus leaf roll, onion and sweet noodle sauce.
Three kinds of imperial meals: delicacies, dragon buds, lotus root tofu, straw mushrooms and broccoli.
A product of porridge: red bean porridge
Fruit one product: timely fruit platter.
Farewell to fragrant tea: Xinyang Maojian tea