However, as the emperor's royal catering team, Guanglu Temple pays attention to royal ostentation and extravagance. As for the taste, it may be average. After all, it is cautious and there is nothing wrong. It was even rated as "Four Unreliable in Beijing" together with articles from the Imperial Academy, armory, swords and prescriptions from Taiyuan Hospital. It can be seen that the dishes cooked by Guanglu Temple are terrible.
As an emperor in the Ninth Five-Year Plan, he naturally won't eat these "simple meals" every day. Therefore, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the imperial meals of the emperor were basically taken care of by the internal supervision department, which naturally became different!
The Diet Hobbies of the Emperor in Ming Dynasty
Zhu Yuanzhang
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born in poverty, knew the sufferings of the people after he ascended the throne, so the court meals in the early Ming Dynasty were relatively simple, and Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral home was in the south, so the imperial meals all had southern characteristics, such as rice as the staple food and light taste.
Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang
At the same time, in order to let future generations know the sufferings of the people, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that the royal diet should include coarse grains and wild vegetables eaten by the people, such as sorghum, miscellaneous beans, fried noodles, asparagus and sowthistle roots.
Pearl Emerald Tang Baiyu
Attachment: Hongwu seventeenth year June menu
Breakfast: stir-fried mutton, stir-fried goose, stir-fried pork with yellow vegetables, pork with clear sauce, steamed pork belly, fried fresh fish for the second time, barbecue in the furnace, steamed chicken in soft soup, fragrant rice, bean soup and tea.
Lunch: shrimp with pepper vinegar, roasted goose, stewed sheep's head and feet, goose Baba, salted soy sauce and mustard lamb tripe plate, garlic vinegar and white blood soup, five-flavor steamed chicken, mutton kidney with vinegar, steamed fresh fish, five-flavor steamed gluten, mutton crystal jiaozi, silk goose powder soup, three-flavor soup, mung bean chess noodles, minced mutton with pepper, fragrant rice and garlic cheese.
Zhu Yunwen and Judy
As successors, Zhu Yunwen and Judy also advocated frugality and provided basically the same royal meals as Zhu Maoyuan Zhang. However, Judy was in Beijing after his vassal. In addition, he moved to Beijing in the later period, and the stewed and fried foods in the special northern pasta and royal meals also increased.
Besides, Judy likes a solo banquet, which is a folk diet. Therefore, when Judy visited the imperial tomb, he was attracted by the banquet and felt very good after tasting it, so the banquet naturally became a royal tribute.
Attachment: October meal menu of the first year of Yongle
According to four kinds of wine, roast mutton, steamed chicken, pepper vinegar goose, roast pork and pork white soup. One goose for rice, three chickens, five catties of mutton, five catties of pork, two barrels of white rice, nine catties of tea and food, ninety sesame cakes, four catties of white flour, eight ounces of sugar, one liter of red beans and twenty catties of fresh pears for small steamed bread with sand stuffing.
Braised Lamb in Brown Sauce
Zhu Shitang
In his early years, Zhu Shitang was not recognized by his father, and grew up eating a hundred meals. After he acceded to the throne, he was also very frugal, reducing court expenses, so his diet was basically the same as that of the previous dynasty, with no special changes.
Zhu Houzhao
As one of the most interesting emperors in history, Zhu Houzhao's food is also different. However, because Zhu is a pig, he issued a "pig ban order". Although people were forbidden to eat pork, he couldn't help it, and the ban was soon abolished.
Besides, the famous Beijing wedding cake is also related to Zhu Houzhao. Because he likes going out of the palace and doesn't want to waste time eating it, the eunuch prepared pancakes for him and rolled them up with onions, sauce, meat and vegetables. In order to facilitate Zhu Houzhao to eat in a hurry, it was handed down!