The most classic in the Tang Dynasty? Barbecue?
Tang dynasty? Barbecue? The historical materials left so far are incomplete, but from these only historical records, we can still feel the luxury of the emperor's diet in the Tang Dynasty, you know? Barbecue? It actually includes 58 courses and 20 cakes.
But the precious ingredients are bears, deer and donkeys from the north, raccoons, shrimps, crabs, frogs and turtles from the north. In addition, there are excellent meat ingredients such as fish, chicken, duck, quail, pig, cow, sheep and rabbit. You know, it's the same from appearance to taste and dish decoration, right? Barbecue? More than 70 dishes have achieved the ultimate in world cuisine.
From the imperial dining table of the Ming Dynasty? The world is prosperous, where is the salt extracted?
Take the luxury of Zhu Yuanzhang's simple lunch as an example, we can imagine how luxurious the imperial meals of the Ming emperors were: shrimp with Chili vinegar, roasted goose, roasted sheep's head and feet, goose bazi, mustard mutton tripe plate with salted lobster sauce, white blood soup with garlic vinegar, steamed chicken with five flavors, lamb bone with yuan sauce, kidney flower with spicy vinegar, steamed fresh fish with five flavors, steamed gluten with crystal mutton jiaozi, goose vermicelli soup and so on. You know, this is just a simple lunch for the Ming emperor. If there is a special festival, the luxury of imperial food is even more unimaginable.
The most classic in Qing dynasty? Man-Han banquet?
Therefore, through the textual research of historical facts, we can feel how luxurious the ancient imperial cuisine was from the most real point of view. Only when people highly worshipped the supremacy of kingship in feudal times, would this luxurious imperial cuisine appear. In modern society, it is estimated that modern people can't restore the luxury of the imperial dining table anyway.