Food culture of Gaoshan nationality
The early staple foods of Gaoshan people in Taiwan Province Province were millet and sweet potato, both of which were eaten by hand. Later, with the increase of mainland immigrants, they gradually absorbed the diet of the Han nationality and switched to chopsticks, and rice gradually became the staple food. However, many Gaoshan people still retain many traditional characteristics. For example, the Yami people in Lan Yu have restrictions on men and women eating fish. Gaoshan people like drinking, and the wine brewed with millet also presents a unique drinking culture.
Minke diet culture
Fujian Hakka food culture is the most important food culture in Taiwan Province Province, which developed from Fujian and Guangdong food culture in Chinese mainland and became today's "Taiwan Province cuisine". Its main feature is to emphasize seafood. In the catering culture of Hakka in Fujian, there are many Buddhist shrines in catering hotels to bless and make a fortune. In addition, Taiwan Province Province, like Fujian and Guangdong, has a strong tea drinking culture, likes to make pot tea, and pays attention to the exquisiteness of tea sets and brewing methods, which is especially popular with "Kung Fu Tea". In history, Taiwan Province Province also produced several famous purple clay pots with strong heat resistance and elegant appearance, such as spring and autumn gardens and dish pots. Nowadays, the tea culture in Taiwan Province has also made new progress.
Dietary culture of religious belief
Religious belief is very popular in Taiwan Province, and people attach great importance to the food content of offerings during festivals or ancestor sacrifices. If the living is used to worship the sky, the cooked sacrifice is to worship the ancestors first. Nowadays, vegetarianism is also very popular in Taiwan Province Province.
Food supplement culture
Taiwan Province Province, like the southern part of the mainland, is very particular about complementary food. Now it can be said to be a healthy food culture. In Taiwan Province Province, the concepts of preserving health and preventing old age, complementing yin and yang, and harmonizing the five elements are profound. At present, there are mainly vegetarian diet, raw food, organic diet, fasting therapy and traditional Chinese medicine diet therapy in Taiwan Province Province. "Shen Si Soup" (yam, Gordon Euryale seed, lotus seed and Poria cocos) is a common nourishing drink and a famous nourishing snack in Taiwan Province Province.
The most unique folk food tonic custom is the so-called "half-year tonic", that is, on the first day of the sixth lunar month every year, every household rubs balls with rice flour to make sweet pills, which can cure all diseases in summer. In addition, there are "winter supplements" or "winter supplements" in Taiwan Province Province, that is, winter supplements.
Food culture with unique flavor
Taiwan Province's distinctive flavor food culture can be said to be all-encompassing, which combines Taiwan Province Province and local snacks in Chinese mainland. Well-known tempura in Miaokou, Keelung, meatballs in Changhua, chicken rice in Chiayi, tribute pills in Hsinchu, Danzai noodles in Tainan and pancakes in Shilin.