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What did the ancient emperors do with the leftovers? Don't believe it when you say it.
Take Puyi as an example. The emperor's leftovers are generally treated in two ways, one as a gift and the other as waste.

I. Rewards

The emperor's leftovers are usually given to concubines, children, ministers and so on. However, the food given is definitely not eaten by the emperor himself, but has never been eaten. This is not for sanitary reasons, because it is a eunuch who picks dishes for the emperor and uses public chopsticks, which is very sanitary. This is a strict confidentiality rule of the royal family. Most of the emperors who were killed were poisoned. Therefore, the food eaten by the emperor is also confidential, and outsiders must never know what the emperor likes to eat.

Dining Bottom File is a court document that records the emperor's diet. Everything is recorded in detail, but what the emperor likes to eat can never be recorded, and the emperor will never say what he likes to eat or what he wants to eat today. Eunuchs and palace staff who serve meals are not allowed to talk casually, which is a taboo in the palace. Those who casually talk about or disclose the emperor's dining situation will be held accountable, and those who are serious will be beheaded.

Without the will of the emperor, no one, including the queen, can eat with the emperor. So, first of all, the chef has to change the pattern every day, and rarely cooks a dish many times. Second, the food eaten by the emperor is generally not given to others.

Second, treat it as waste.

According to the rules, eunuchs and maids must not eat the leftovers of the emperor. The emperor's leftovers can only be used as swill, thrown away or fed to pigs. During the period of Puyi, the Manchu Dynasty collapsed and the palace was in chaos. Some eunuchs even steal Puyi's food and sell it to foreign diners when dealing with swill, which is called imperial food. This is naturally illegal, and once the eunuch is found, it will be over. To put it bluntly, selling this dish can't turn a few dollars, which shows the eunuch's attitude of treating money like life.

Man-Han banquet in the emperor's menu:

Steamed mutton, steamed bear's paw, steamed deer's tail, roasted duck, roast chicken, roasted goose, braised pig, braised duck, sauced chicken, bacon, Songhua tripe, dried meat, sausage, assorted soup plate, smoked chicken with white belly, steamed eight-treasure pig, stuffed duck with glutinous rice, canned pheasant, canned quail, stewed meat and red roasted goose.

Stir-fried shrimps, soft-fried tenderloin, soft-fried chicken, assorted sausage sleeves, braised western Western jackdaw, sesame oil rolls, fried fresh mushrooms, fried fish breast, fried fish belly, fried fish slices, fried pork slices with vinegar, braised three delicacies, braised white mushrooms, braised pigeon eggs and fried silver.

Fried sauce, fried ribs, steamed scallops, sugar-fried glutinous rice, shredded chicken, shredded belly, assorted tofu, assorted diced meat, bad duck, fried fish slices, fried crab meat, stewed crab meat, mixed crab meat, steamed pumpkin, stuffed pumpkin and fried towel gourd. Smoked duck's feet, stewed duck's feet, stewed bamboo shoots, boiled water bamboo, eggplant jerky, duck soup, crab soup, chicken blood soup, Sam Sun Mu Zhi soup, red meatballs, white meatballs, South Fried meatballs, Four Joy Meetballs, Sam Sun meatballs, preserved fish meatballs, fresh shrimp meatballs and preserved fish.

Tofu balls, cherry meat, horseteeth meat, rice flour meat, yipin meat, chestnut meat, jar meat, braised pork, braised pork in yellow sauce, oven tofu meat, stewed meat, sticky meat, stewed meat, braised pork, loose meat, canned meat, barbecue, big meat, barbecue, white meat, red elbow and so on.

Braised silver wire, braised white offal, braised glutinous rice balls, fried hydrangea, three fresh shark's fins, chestnut chicken, sauce-fried squid, live-drilled carp, salted duck, cheese chicken, braised navel belly, braised mutton, fried belly, salted elbow flowers, stewed pig's trotters and stir-fried.

Fried tofu, fried gluten, fried soft towel, sugar baked yam, sugar stewed lotus seeds, brewed yam, almond cheese, fried crab, fried meat, assorted kudzu, sole, eight generations of fish, crucian carp, yellow croaker and shad.

Braised turtledove, dried dried dried seaweed, braised diced waist, cooked rice, fried deer tail, braised fish head, miscellaneous skin dregs, fried pork intestines, fried purple gaier, shredded chicken bean sprouts, twelve dishes, soup sheep, venison, hump, deer, root cuttings, fried flower slices, and fried rice noodles and bean sprouts.

Braised tremella, fried silver branches, eight-treasure hazelnut sauce, yellow croaker pot, cabbage pot, assorted pot, glutinous rice ball pot, chrysanthemum pot, chop suey pot, boiled bean pot, diced hot sauce, fried shredded pork, fried pork slices, stewed sauerkraut, stewed cabbage, stewed peas, stewed lentils, steamed edamame and fried.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Man-Han Banquet