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
The 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.
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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 royal 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
(2) courtier's banquet
Beauty offers tea: Shifeng Longjing
Four kinds of dried fruits: honey peanuts, cashew nuts with strange taste, walnut sauce and apple fudge.
Four major candied fruits: candied ginkgo, candied cherry, candied melon strips and candied dates.
Bobo four products: emerald bean cake, chestnut cake, two-color bean cake and bean paste roll.
Four pickles: sweet pickled radish, spiced cooked mustard, sweet and sour pumpkin and sweet brocade.
Seven appetizers: climbing plum magpie, butterfly leisure roll, ginger fish fillet, spiced pigeon, sweet and sour lotus root, pickled cauliflower and spicy cabbage roll.
The taste of soup: the taste of official swallowing
Five royal dishes: stewed deer tendon in casserole, shredded chicken tremella, osmanthus fish sticks, diced rabbit with eight treasures and bracken with bamboo shoots.
Two products: Cixi Xiaowotou and similar steamed dumplings.
Five royal dishes: Luohan prawn, fried fresh shellfish, beef tenderloin with scallion, chicken in oyster sauce and fresh mushroom cabbage.
Bobo two products: Lama cake and almond tofu.
Fried quail and braised scallop with acanthopanax senticosus.
Bobo two products: velvet chicken to be fed, apple with bean paste
Three kinds of royal meals: braised fish lips, braised fish bones and shark skin with scallion.
Barbecue two products: sliced suckling pig, Uygur roast mutton, pancakes, and sweet onion sauce.
A product of porridge: Huiren rice porridge
Fruit one product: timely fruit platter.
Farewell to fragrant tea: Zhu Lan is generous
(3) Longevity banquet
Beauty offers tea: Lushan Cloud
Four kinds of dried fruits: milky white jujube treasure, two-color soft candy, sugar fried flat, cocoa peach kernel.
Four major candied fruits: candied pineapple, candied red fruit, candied grape and candied horseshoe.
Four products: golden cake roll, red bean cake, lotus seed cake and pea yellow.
Four pickles: sweet-scented osmanthus mustard hot sauce, dried purple incense, assorted coriander and leisure cucumber oil.
One of the products of piggy box: dragon and phoenix tracing gold, piggy box and dragon board column, which can be taken at will.
Braised chicken fillet with salt water, duck with red oil, spicy strips.
Sweet-scented osmanthus sauce chicken tomato horseshoe, oil-stewed straw mushroom, pepper oil tremella
Four appetizers: coral white with Chinese characters, spiced prawns with Chinese characters, salted beef without Chinese characters, and venetian blinds with red oil with Chinese characters.
First-class soup: Changchun deer whip soup
There are four kinds of royal dishes: jade palm for longevity, pearl tofu, first black-bone chicken and duck tongue with flowers.
Two products: Longevity Longxu Noodles and Bai Shou Peach.
There are four kinds of royal dishes: Shenqi Stewed Baifeng, Dragon and Phoenix Eggs, Happy Father and Son, and Qin Gui Leaves.
Bobo two products: Changchun roll and chrysanthemum bergamot crisp.
Four royal dishes: golden-legged roasted round fish, skillfully-baked wild goose and kite, diced chicken with peach kernel and shredded bamboo shoots with crab meat.
Bobo two products: ginseng fruit and walnut cheese.
Four royal meals: Hericium erinaceus, cuttlefish soup, lotus leaf chicken and white mushroom fried beef tenderloin.
Barbecue two products: hanging stove sand table chicken, hemp kernel venison skewer
A taste of porridge: rare black rice porridge.
Fruit one product: timely fruit platter.
Farewell to fragrant tea: jasmine sparrow tongue
(4) Thousands of feasts
Beauty offers tea: junshan silver needle
Four kinds of dried fruits: strange walnut, crystal soft candy, spiced cashew nuts and peanut paste.
There are four kinds of candied fruits: candied oranges, candied begonia, candied bananas and candied plums.
Bobo's four major products: Lantern Longan, Aiwowo, Jam Gold Cake and Bicolor Horseshoe Cake.
Four pickles: court radish, honey cucumber, osmanthus kohlrabi and pickled peach kernel.
Seven appetizers: Erlong playing with pearls, dried tangerine peel rabbit meat, strange chicken strips, tianxiang abalone, three loofah rolls, shrimps and winter bamboo shoots, and pepper oil.
Taste of soup: canned stewed fish lips
Five royal meals: sand boat stepping on the emerald green, prawn in the water, tender dragon and phoenix, diced sesame oil and cucumber sauce.
Bobo two products: Melaleuca steamed cakes and assorted flower baskets.
Five royal meals: dragon boat fish, slippery shellfish balls, braised quail in sauce, beef tenderloin in oyster sauce, and duck feet in Sichuan sauce.
Two products: Fengwei steamed dumplings and Cai Wu wonton soup.
Five kinds of imperial meals: a kind of tofu, Sanxian pills, Flammulina velutipes, chicken breast and fragrant venison pie.
Bobo has two products: Yutu Cabbage and Sixi jiaozi.
Barbecue two major products: imperial roast chicken and grilled fish rice.
Game hot pot: with twelve dishes.
Yipin: sliced venison, roe deer and dragon's back, sliced pheasant.
Wild boar, wild duck, squid roll, fresh fish.
Acanthopanax senticosus, fresh bean sprouts
A product of porridge: lotus leaf porridge
Fruit one product: timely fruit platter.
Farewell to fragrant tea: Yanghe Chun Lv
(5) Nine hundred banquets
Beauty offers tea: boiling milk tea
Four kinds of dried fruits: sesame candy, rock candy walnut, spiced almond and pineapple soft candy.
Four major candied fruits: longan candied fruit, Laiyang pear candied fruit, water chestnut candied fruit and areca nut candied fruit.
Four products: glutinous rice cake, kidney bean roll, pigeon glass cake and cream pineapple jelly.
Four pickles: Beijing spicy vegetables, spicy cucumber strips, sweet and spicy dried vegetables and potherb.
Seven appetizers: Song He Yannian, pickled duck feet, spicy quail, sesame fish cashew nuts and celery hearts, fried mushrooms and tomatoes with honey sauce.
Taste of soup: frog soup
Imperial Diet: Braised Kirin Noodles.
Stir-fried four products: drum plate dragon crab, spicy tendons, black dragon spit beads, three fresh dragon and phoenix pills.
Bobo two products: Osmanthus Jelly and Jade Gourd.
Royal cuisine: golden toad, emerald abalone
Stir-fried four products: bracken, fried meat with salt, delicious cooked pork and boiled rice.
Bobo two products: golden horn, crystal plum blossom bag.
Royal cuisine: multicolored fried hump
Stir-fried four products: wild duck diced peach kernel, fried squid, box of tofu, and crispy fried golden cake.
Two products: rescue, lotus roll
Barbecue two products: furnace guinea fowl and roast deer breast.
A product of porridge: lotus seed porridge
Fruit one product: timely fruit platter.
Farewell to fragrant tea: Dongting Biluochun
(6) Festival banquet
Beauty offers tea: Wulong, Fujian
Four kinds of dried fruits: white almond, soft candy with persimmon frost, crisp fried cashew nuts and sugar fried peanuts.
Four major candied fruits: candied pears, candied dates, candied lychees and candied Hami apricots.
Four treasures: whip cake, bean paste cake, coconut cup and mandarin duck roll.
Four pickles: spicy pumpkin slices, small peppers in sauce, ginger teeth in sweet sauce and snails in sauce.
Seven appetizers: Phoenix Winging, Panda Crab and Shrimp, Winter Bamboo Shoots, Five-silk Yang Fen, Spiced Mandarin Fish, Hot and Sour Cucumber and Beef jerky.
First-class soup: stewed chicken and bird's nest in pot.
Five royal dishes: abalone with original shell, roasted partridge, five treasures of sandalwood, shredded chicken bean sprouts and pearl fish balls.
Two products: Chongyang Flower Cake and Songzihai Luo Gan.
Five royal dishes: roasted shark's fin with Hericium erinaceus, duck breast with slippery sauce, shredded vegetable fried eel, diced cashew deer and grilled fish belly roll.
Bobo has two products: hibiscus banana rolls and moon cakes.
Five royal dishes: steamed fresh vegetables, fried vegetables, stuffed mushrooms, lotus leaf chicken and Shandong sea cucumber.
Bobo's two products: seasonal snacks and glutinous rice balls.
Barbecue two kinds of products: roast duck and roast pheasant, and serve them with it.
Pancakes, sweet noodle sauce, onion slices, melon strips
Sliced radish, sugar, garlic paste
A product of porridge: Laba porridge
Fruit one product: timely fruit platter.
Farewell to fragrant tea: Yanghe Chun Lv
Man-Han banquet in the name of the newspaper:
Steamed mutton, steamed bear's paw and steamed deer's tail;
Roast duck, roast chicken, roast goose;
Braised salted duck, sauce chicken, bacon, pine flower, belly, dried meat and sausage;
Assorted Pan Su, smoked chicken, white belly, steamed eight-treasure pig and stuffed duck rice;
Canned pheasant, canned quail, assorted braised pork, stewed goose, stewed shrimp and roasted shrimp;
Pheasant, rabbit breast, vegetable python, whitebait, steamed chop suey horse;
Braised duck kidney, braised duck strips, shredded duck and yellow tube;
Braised Monopterus albus, Braised Monopterus albus, Douchi Catfish, Pot Catfish, Pot Turtle, Pot Carp, Fried Carp;
Soft fried tenderloin, soft fried chicken, assorted casing, sesame oil roll;
Stir-fried fresh mushrooms, fried preserved fish, fried fish fillets, fried fish bellies, fried pork slices with vinegar and fried white mushrooms;
Stewed three delicacies, stir-fried whitebait, stewed eel, steamed ham, stir-fried white shrimp, stir-fried clam and fried noodles fish;
Stir-fried asparagus, hibiscus, fried liver tip, fried liver, fried belly kernel and fried belly collar with soup;
Stir-fried gold thread, stewed silver thread, sugar-fried boy, sugar-fried water chestnut, shredded yam and shredded fresh peach;
Stir-fried scallops, stir-fried scallops, stewed shredded duck, and stewed eggs;
Steamed chicken, braised chicken, fried chicken, fried chicken, crispy chicken, diced fried chicken, fried chicken pieces;
Three cents diced two, eight treasures diced two, steamed magnolia slices;
Stir-fried shrimp, stir-fried kidney flower, stir-fried tendon, pot-cooked sea cucumber and pot-cooked cabbage;
Fried sea cucumber, water frog, osmanthus wings, steamed wings, fried birds, fried onions, fried ribs;
Braised chicken sausage, stewed mutton, salted elbow flowers, mixed meat, stewed hanging, pot-cooked trotters;
Roasted mandarin duck, lily, apple, lotus root, glutinous rice, fried crab and tortoise shell;
Assorted kudzuvine root rice, stone fish, hairtail, yellow croaker, spilled meat;
Red meat pot, white meat pot, chrysanthemum pot, pheasant pot, Yuanxiao pot, miscellaneous noodle pot and water chestnut pot;
Soft fried birds, dragon and tiger eggs, scarlet lips, humps, velvet antler, bear's paw, suckling pigs, suckling ducks;
Pork, goat, steamed scallop, fried chicken head rice with sugar, shredded chicken and shredded belly;
Assorted tofu, assorted diced meat, refined shrimp, refined crab, refined fish, refined fish fillets;
Stir-fried crab meat, stir-fried crab meat, mixed crab meat, steamed pumpkin, stuffed pumpkin, fried loofah, stewed melon;
Braised chicken feet, braised duck feet, braised bamboo shoots, roasted water bamboo, dried eggplant, braised pork, duck soup, crab soup, and three fresh sweet clover soup;
Red meatballs, white meatballs, stir-fried meatballs, fried meatballs, three fresh meatballs, Four Joy Meetballs, sunflower meatballs, stir-fried meatballs and tofu meatballs;
Red stew, white stew, loose meat, braised pork, barbecue, sauced meat, lotus leaf halogen, yipin meat, cherry meat, horse tooth meat, sauced tofu meat, jar meat, canned meat, ingot meat, and fulu meat;
Red elbow, white elbow, crystal elbow, beeswax elbow, burnt elbow and baked elbow;
Steamed mutton, roasted mutton, spiced mutton, sauce mutton and fried mutton are three kinds;
Roasted purple cover, stewed duck offal, stir-fried white offal, three fresh shark fins, chestnut chicken, live carp, salted duck, cheese chicken.