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Man-Han banquet is the highest peak of China traditional banquet.

Now, it seems that only a few restaurants in Beijing still have a banquet called "Man-Han Banquet", but this is an improved table, which is not the same as the Man-Han Banquet of that year.

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How did the Manchu-Han banquet come about?

Man-Han banquet, more than 200 dishes.

There are so many dishes and complicated forms.

Not so much dinner.

More like loyalty.

The Manchu-Han banquet, which lasted for more than 200 years in Qing Dynasty, was finally finalized in Guangxu period.

There were full seats and Han seats in the early Qing Dynasty. Take Guanglu Temple as an example. During Shunzhi and Kangxi periods, the banquet in the palace was divided into full seats and Han seats, each with a great separation. The emperor's old son invited everyone to dinner, and the Manchu people gave them a full seat, and the Han people gave them a Chinese seat. Full seats are divided into six grades and Chinese seats are divided into three grades. What level are you? You can eat the corresponding table. Department-level cadres can never eat the food of ministerial-level cadres-except when the emperor is happy. This is a great gift. The emperor invites you to eat luxurious food that you shouldn't eat. This represents a great honor. You must eat it with tears in your eyes. Look at Long Live Mountain while eating.

Until the late Qianlong period, Yuan Mei, a gifted scholar and gourmet, said in his "Food List with the Garden" that Manchu invited Han people to use Chinese seats, and Han people invited Manchu people to use full seats to show respect for each other's eating habits. In the same book, Yuan Mei mentioned "Man-Han Banquet", which was called "Official Banquet", and it was about the fact that officials were allowed to eat and drink with public funds. The word "Man-Han Banquet" was also mentioned in The Original Boat Story of Yangzhou, which was accompanied by Yuan. Experts believe that this is the origin of Manchu-Chinese banquet-a table has both Manchu-Chinese banquet and Chinese food, which is the beginning of Manchu-Chinese banquet.

One thing worth noting in the records of these two parties is that both the people and the government ate and drank shamelessly at that time. The "Suiyuan Food List" said, "(Manchu Banquet) is used for new relatives to come to the door and the boss to enter the country." "New relatives come to the door" means that folk relatives come to the door and have a big banquet; "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" is easy to explain. When leaders come to inspect the work, or when they pass by, they must put on a "all-China seat", otherwise it is not enough to show respect. Li Dou told readers that "Man-Han Banquet" was mainly used for welcoming officials, and "The Story of Yangzhou Boat" also recorded a menu of "Man-Han Banquet" for the first time, with 130 dishes on it, which was similar to that of the later Man-Han Banquet.

Of course, the scale of many full houses is not so exaggerated. In the 18th year of Daoguang (1838), there were only 16 dishes, 2 dishes, 8 big dishes, 8 hot meals and 2 snacks on the menu of "Full of Han Xi", which is not very exaggerated.

Since the reign of Xianfeng, there has been a "Tianan diet" in the court for the emperor's use. During the Guangxu period, it was designated as 48 items, and Empress Dowager Cixi enjoyed two items, namely 96 items. It looks very spectacular. It's 96 courses. I'm afraid the table is more than ten meters long. In fact, Cixi's real menu rarely has more than 40 courses, but it is also very luxurious. However, these dishes are often not eaten by emperors or queens. Usually, the emperor or queen mother just moves chopsticks, eats a few mouthfuls, and then gives them to the harem concubines, maids-in-waiting, eunuchs, princes and ministers, and imperial guards. In that case, it's still quite economical.

At the same time as Tianan rice, there are folk sayings of "full banquet" and "full banquet". This should be the transition from Manchu-Chinese banquet to Manchu-Chinese banquet.

The word "Manchu-Han banquet" first appeared in the book Biography of Flowers on the Sea in the late Qing Dynasty (1894). This book, written in Wu language, tells the life of a prostitute in Shanghai Shili Foreign Exchange, which was later translated into Flowers on the Sea by Zhang Ailing.

The word "du" on the Manchu-Han banquet shows that the extravagance of this banquet has reached its peak.

Some people say that there are 108 courses at the Manchu-Han banquet, including 54 courses for the whole course and 54 courses for Chinese food. Actually, this is fiction. Manchu-Chinese Banquets108,200, dozens. The least Manchu-Chinese banquet has only more than 20 dishes, so its dishes are not fixed, and the Manchu-Chinese banquet dishes inside are not fixed. Some dishes are decorated with several Manchu dishes, and some are all Chinese dishes-Empress Dowager Cixi's "Tianan Rice" menu is basically the same.

The so-called full dishes are mostly game and white. Compared with Chinese food with rich and varied tastes, it tastes really bad. You can change your taste once in a while. If you really want to eat one or twenty dishes in a row, you have to throw up.

After the Republic of China, the Manchu-Han banquet was changed into a politically correct "big man banquet" in some places. Eating as usual is just to show that we are also full of revolution, so when eating, the word "full" is removed, leaving only "big shots", which is also a revolution at the dinner table. In Chongqing 1930' s, there was such a "big banquet". In the memory of an American doctor, he recorded the process of eating a "big meal".