Diet meaning: to eat and drink, referring to drinks and food.

Diet: pinyin yǐn shí; Explanation: eating and drinking, referring to drinks and food. Diet is a kind of culture, is a component of material culture and social customs in all parts of the most reflective of national and regional characteristics. Chinese food is famous all over the world. China's food culture has a long history. Over the past thousands of years, people have been summarized has formed the Chinese cuisine of the eight major cuisines, namely, Lu, Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Anhui school.

There are many schools of Chinese cuisine in cooking. The most influential and representative of them are also recognized by the community: Lu, Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Anhui and other cuisines, which is often referred to as China's "eight major cuisines". The formation of a cuisine is inseparable from its long history and unique culinary characteristics. At the same time, it is also influenced by the region's natural geography, climatic conditions, resources and specialties, and eating habits.

Some people put the "eight cuisines" with anthropomorphic techniques depicted as: Suzhou, Zhejiang cuisine is better than the beautiful beauty of the South; Lu, Anhui cuisine is like the ancient and simple northern healthy man; Guangdong, Fujian cuisine is like the elegant son of the wind flow; Szechuan, Hunan cuisine is like the connotation of the rich and full, full of talent, the celebrities.

China's "eight cuisines" cooking techniques have their own charm, and the characteristics of their dishes are also different. The Central Plains has a long history and rich cultural heritage. Central Plains cuisine is the root of the eight cuisines.