In the "Legend of Zhen Huan", to be able to find all kinds of specialties, can say, "Legend of Zhen Huan" is not only a palace fighting drama r, in fact, is also a specialties of the food TV series, every consort can be happy to eat food, and even some of the consort also has its own small stove - kitchenette, for example, Hua Fei, her palace! Small kitchen feeding is recognized by the group the most excellent, the emperor as long as the gluttony, quasi to her side of the run.
Harem concubine treatmentBut that doesn't mean that a concubine can blatantly eat a lot of delicious food on a daily basis, the salary of the harem concubines, in the heavily guarded Forbidden City in Beijing, there is a harsh level of division.
Their daily meals, clothes, tea, pocket money, etc., all in accordance with the strict hierarchical implementation of the supply system of the harem.
Can eat the most luxurious food in the harem, the general situation is all the emperor leftover food.
For example, the Jiaqing emperor phase of the material shows that, at the level of meat food, only the emperor can eat on the sheep, soup meat, animal oil, etc., at the level of vegetables and fruits, the emperor is also very excellent, the emperor can eat private vegetables and fruits, including amaranth, leek buds, carrots, beans, capers, skimmia, these, and also be able to drink four taels of Yuquan wine every day, this wage even the emperor all do not have.
No mistake, the objective fact is not like the TV series played that consort daily can eat chicken, duck, fish and meat, in the Qing Dynasty, if strictly in accordance with the requirements of the diet of the harem, including the Empress, the Empress, the Consort and all of its concubines, are not enough to grade to eat the daily slaughtered sheep, and also can not eat amaranth, bean curd, and even carrots, and even the big carrots, and only to nibble on the green carrots and carrots.
Queen can also ensure that every day a chicken plus a duck, and the Empress only ensure that every day a chicken or duck, to the consort only every two days to eat a chicken or duck, concubines are only every three days a chicken or duck, the least influence often in, every six days can only eat a chicken. Other Chinese cabbage, Xianglai, lettuce which are also not open supply.
No wonder the group daily look forward to the emperor can go to its own side of the meal it, the original is able to rub a delicious bite, no wonder Chun often in the always go to find Zhen Huan to rub the food.
kitchenfinally very few consorts can be like Hua Fei that can have their own small kitchen, to have a small kitchen, the first to be as rich as Hua Fei, because it is separate from the supernumerary system in the Imperial Household Catering, the general scale of operation is relatively small, and also only the emperor's consort or a higher status of consort to be able to open a small kitchen.
Generally tired of eating the imperial kitchen diet, their own money for their own small stove, so the small kitchen to produce small snacks dishes, but also probably in line with the taste of the concubines of this palace, Zhen Huan is also after the palace when the consort has its own small kitchen.
And Zhen Huan in mistakenly wearing the pure yuan empress old clothes, was imprisoned broken jade xuan, then Zhen Huan or concubines, the emperor ordered only allowed to agree to the example of the portion to give, plus into the cold palace, some slave girls also more indiscriminate deduction, so live more difficult.
In addition to the main meals, the daily supply of dried fruit snacks is also in accordance with the rank of the successive decline in these aspects of the Empress Dowager can be divided into pure honey eight two, walnut meat four two, pine nuts two money, goji berries four two also dry jujubes ten two, it is the most abundant in the harem, the rest of the concubines only the Empress daily pure honey to eat (four two), the Empress, the consort and the consort of the daily instances of a bit of dry jujubes and walnut meat. For the concubines under the concubine, nobles to help such, don't think about it.
But then, the regulations, all people set, if the consort's power is strong enough, this requirement of the specific limitations of the actual effect is very abnormal.
For example, some experts and scholars have found that Cixi in the case of the Guangxu emperor's empress, concubines set points, the Ministry of Internal Affairs submitted two plans, in which a copy is in accordance with the fixed portion of the supply, the other is more than the fixed portion. Therefore, in fact, eat more eat less, or need to look at the power of Cixi's own preferences.
After the Empress Dowager Cixi grasped the real power in the palace cavity, even the Emperor and Empress of the food and drink with the power, of course, their own meals are more unrestrained.
Dishes
Then Xuantong Emperor Puyi's memories of their own emperor, the palace cavity in the power of the Empress Dowager Longyu every meal dishes can have 100 kinds of up and down, six meals table can be set down, Empress Dowager Longyu is Empress Dowager Cixi's cousin's niece, this kind of is the scene she inherited from Cixi's side.
Xuantong Emperor Puyi as the emperor, each meal dishes than the Empress Dowager Longyu less, but as a rule there can be about thirty kinds. But despite the dishes to the late Qing Dynasty is used for appearance, not for eating.
Based on his memories, at that time he ate every meal specifically, is sent over by the dowager empress dishes, the dowager empress died by the four imperial concubine and then sent.
This kind of really sent into the mouth of the meal is the Empress Dowager or the Royal Consort of the meal house to do, but also on the above mentioned small kitchen, most of them hired is a senior chef, do the dishes color and flavor, every meal a **** there are twenty samples.
For the imperial kitchen to do that more than 30 kinds of dishes, all far away from the side, do a model just.
Looking at the Qing Dynasty Empresses Palace world is not only to better fight for favor, but also to better have higher rights, manipulation of their own eating it, or like Hua Fei that kind of meat enthusiasts, and then encountered the Yixiu and Shen Meizhuang that love to save money, meals let the consort vegetarian managers, simply aggrieved to die?