What to eat specifically was recorded in the Qing Dynasty. For example, on the first day of October in the 12th year of Qianlong, the banquet list of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty was: Long live the Chinese Palace Zhengyi, and the banquet in Ming Dow East Warm Pavilion was set with foreign lacquer flowers. Bird's nest, shredded chicken, shredded mushrooms, shredded cabbage, a red tide bowl; A product of the Eight Immortals, a smoked bird's nest duck and a piece of Chinese cabbage, chicken wings and mushrooms, these two products together ... there are 28 bowls in total.
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The emperor dined:
When the emperor feels hungry, he will order the imperial eunuchs around him to "pass the rice". The imperial eunuchs shout "pass the rice" to the eunuchs in the temple, and the eunuchs in the temple shout "pass the rice" to the eunuchs outside the door. In this way, the voice of "passing rice" will relay all the way to the chef. After that, a group of dozens of eunuchs, each with a golden dragon lacquer box filled with food, sent it to the emperor's palace.
Then the little eunuch took the box and set the dishes out. The number of dishes is not fixed. For example, the ambitious Emperor Qianlong put hundreds of dishes on every meal, while Daoguang, who is famous for being stingy, usually put about 30 dishes on every meal.
As for what to eat, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi, wrote in his autobiography the menu contents of Xuantong during the four years: mushroom fat chicken, three fresh ducks, five pieces of shredded chicken, stewed meat, stewed belly and lungs, stewed meat slices, braised mutton, stewed spinach tofu with mutton, yam cherry meat, stewed meat stove, sliced mutton Sichuan radish, sliced duck sea cucumber and sliced duck kudzu root.
Every day when the emperor orders "pass the rice", all kinds of dishes are always delivered to the emperor at the first time. The reason why you can be on call is that these dishes were cooked half a day or a day ago and then heated with a small fire. When the emperor wants to eat, he can immediately put it in a food box and send it there.
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