However, as the emperor's royal catering team, Guanglu Temple pays attention to royal ostentation and extravagance. As for the taste, it may be average. After all, there is nothing wrong with being cautious. Even with the articles of the Hanlin Academy, the armory, knives and guns, and the prescriptions of Taiyuan Hospital, it was rated as "Beijing Four Unreliable". It can be seen that the dishes cooked by Guanglu Temple are terrible.
As an emperor in the Ninth Five-Year Plan, he naturally won't eat these "simple meals" every day. Therefore, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the emperor's imperial meals were basically supervised by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and naturally it would become different!
The Diet Hobbies of the Emperor in Ming Dynasty
Zhu Yuanzhang
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born in poverty, knew well the sufferings of the people after he acceded to the throne, so the court meals in the early Ming Dynasty were relatively simple, and Zhu Yuanzhang was originally from the south, so the imperial meals all had southern characteristics, with rice as the staple food and light taste.
Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang
At the same time, in order to let future generations know the sufferings of the people, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that the royal family's diet should include coarse grains and wild vegetables eaten by the people, such as sorghum, miscellaneous beans, fried noodles, asparagus and sowthistle roots.
Pearl Emerald Tang Baiyu
Attachment: Hongwu seventeenth year June menu
Breakfast: fried mutton, fried goose, fried pork with yellow vegetables, plain pork with clear sauce, steamed pig's trotters, fried fresh fish cooked twice, roasted in the oven, steamed chicken in soft soup, fragrant rice, bean soup and tea.
Lunch: Shrimp with Chili vinegar, Roasted Goose, Stewed Sheep's Head and Foot, Goose Bazi, Sauced Sheep's Belly Plate with Salty Soy Sauce, White Blood Soup with Garlic Vinegar, Steamed Chicken with Five Flavors, Mutton's Kidney with Vinegar, Steamed Fresh Fish, Steamed Gluten with Five Flavors, Mutton Crystal jiaozi, Silk Goose Powder Soup, Sanxian Soup, Mung Bean Chess Noodles, Chopped Pepper Mutton, Fragrant Rice and Garlic Cheese.
Zhu Yunwen and Judy
As successors, Zhu Yunwen and Judy also advocated frugality, basically serving the same royal meals as Zhu Maoyuan Zhang. However, Judy was in Beijing after the seal, and later moved to Beijing, and the characteristics of northern pasta and braised fried rice in the royal diet also increased.
Besides, Judy loves banquets alone, and banquets are a folk way of eating. Therefore, when Judy visited the imperial tomb, he was attracted by the banquet and felt very good after tasting it, so the banquet naturally became a royal tribute.
Attachment: October meal menu of the first year of Yongle
According to four kinds of wine, roast mutton, steamed chicken, pepper vinegar goose, roast pork and pork white soup. One goose for rice, three chickens, five catties of mutton, five catties of pork, two buckets of white rice, nine catties of tea and grain, ninety pieces of baked wheat cakes, four catties of white flour, eight ounces of sugar, one liter of red beans and twenty catties of fresh pears for sand-stuffed buns.
Braised Lamb in Brown Sauce
Zhu Shitang
In his early years, Zhu Shitang was not recognized by his father, and grew up eating a hundred meals. After he acceded to the throne, he was also very frugal, cutting court expenses, so his diet was basically the same as that of the previous dynasty, with no special changes.
Zhu Houzhao
As one of the most fun-loving emperors in history, Zhu Houzhao's food is also different. However, because Zhu is a pig, he issued a "pig ban order". Although people were forbidden to eat pork, he couldn't help it, and the ban was quickly lifted.
Besides, the famous Spring Banquet cake in Beijing is also related to Zhu Houzhao. Because he likes going out of the palace and doesn't want to waste time eating, the eunuch prepared pancakes for him and rolled them up with onions, sauce, meat and vegetables. In order to facilitate Zhu Houzhao to eat in a hurry, it was handed down!