Influenced by geography, history, economy and other factors, China's diet has gradually formed a situation with different flavors and diverse skills. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the northern and southern cuisines formed their own systems. After the Yuan Dynasty, Shandong cuisine and Huaiyang cuisine formed a scale, while Sichuan cuisine and Cantonese cuisine formed a system in the late Qing Dynasty. These are the so-called four major cuisines. In modern history, Zhejiang cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Fujian cuisine and Anhui cuisine appeared due to human factors, material factors, culture and other reasons, and finally formed the most representative, influential and socially recognized? What are the eight cuisines of Shandong, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Hunan, Fujian and Huizhou? . There is no room for Beijing food.
Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Beijing, as the capital of the country, has been a gathering place of delicious food. There is no Beijing cuisine among the eight major cuisines, which is not to say that there is no delicious food in Beijing, but that the influence of Beijing local cuisines is not great enough to become an independent cuisine.
With the increasing influence of Beijing, some people started the concept of Beijing cuisine. But what is Beijing food? At present, the accepted definition is that Beijing cuisine consists of palace cuisine, official cuisine, restaurant cuisine, pure cuisine and civilian cuisine. Palace cuisine and official cuisine have never been an important part of Beijing cuisine, but what can be called the backbone of Beijing cuisine probably belongs to restaurant cuisine (mostly Shandong cuisine), Muslim cuisine and ordinary cuisine.
Ordinary people's food is more elegant, but it is actually home-cooked. In the hutong yard, ordinary people often eat at home. Generally speaking, it is the dish we often eat according to the season and season. In the past 20 years, the content of home cooking has also undergone great changes, which is inseparable from the changes in Beijing. The urban area has expanded from the Second Ring Road to the Fifth Ring Road, and Beijing has gradually become an immigrant city. With the arrival of people from other provinces and cities, local dishes began to enter Beijing one after another, so the taste of Beijing became rich and varied.
On the basis of Beijing flavor, home-cooked dishes have added other local flavors. The menu of Beijing home-cooked dishes has gradually added fish-flavored shredded pork, kung pao chicken, fish head with chopped pepper, braised pork with plum vegetables and other cuisines.
These local dishes have become the favorite home-cooked dishes of New Beijingers, and local dishes have become an important part of the restaurant menu, which is also an important part of the taste of Beijing at present. ?