A Dream of Red Mansions describes all aspects of aristocratic life in Qing Dynasty, which is an encyclopedia reflecting aristocratic life in Qing Dynasty. The Jia family in A Dream of Red Mansions has flourished for a hundred years. From the beginning of the seal of "Rong Guogong" and "Ning Guogong" to Jia Rong and Jia Lan of the cursive generation, not only the accumulation of wealth reached a certain height, but also the enjoyment of material things was more exquisite. Zhong Ming's aristocratic life is highlighted in the high pursuit of diet. Then, let's take a brief look at how mouth-watering the food in A Dream of Red Mansions is. There are many kinds of food in A Dream of Red Mansions. Some scholars have made statistics on A Dream of Red Mansions, including more than 211 kinds of food. From the retrospection of A Dream of Red Mansions alone, there are as many as thirteen times related to food.

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A Dream of Red Mansions, as a work describing various social life, describes all aspects of family life, and ordinary porridge, rice and dishes are essential for daily life scenes. Many delicious foods written by Cao Xueqin, such as "stewed elbow with ham", "bird's nest porridge", "Lu 'an tea", "Hui Quan wine", "longan soup" and "yam cake stuffed with jujube paste", as well as the unusual dish "eggplant", make people swallow their saliva. Let's introduce these foods below. Complex dish-eggplant

In A Dream of Red Mansions, what is the most impressive dish? .

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The eggplant in A Dream of Red Mansions refers to the delicious dishes made of eggplant. The production method is also very complicated. Solanum tuberosum is a very beautiful dish with complicated production process and rich materials.

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This dish is not a delicious food imagined by Cao Xueqin. It appeared and was recorded before the Qing Dynasty. According to Wu Zimu's "Dream of Liang Lu" in Song Dynasty, it is recorded in Volume 16: "There are no fewer than one or two hundred shops inside and outside the city." In Lin 'an in the Southern Song Dynasty, which is today's Hangzhou, there have been shops selling squid and salted food. Lin 'an is located in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and fishermen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had the habit of pickling food in ancient times.

Staple food-Yutian rouge rice After learning about a beautiful dish, let's take a look at the staple food of Jiafu. In the fifty-third chapter of the book, it is written that the grain paid by Wuzhuangtou in Heishan Village to Ningguo House is:

Yutian Rouge Rice, Binuo Rouge Rice, Bainuo Rouge Rice ... only 211 Jin, which is very precious. This is a kind of high-quality rice. After cooking, it is red as rouge, fragrant and has a long grain.

In the eighth chapter, I wrote that Baoyu ate half a bowl of Bijing porridge. Bijing is also a kind of high-quality rice, mainly produced in Hebei Province, Shandong and other places have also been introduced. According to the introduction of "Miscellaneous Poems on Food Taste", it is characterized by "slender grains, greenish, and fragrant when cooking". In the old days, it was exclusively for emperors and imperial concubines. In the sixty-second chapter, I wrote about Baoyu's birthday, but I didn't see Fangguan, and I found Yihongyuan. Fangguan had gone to the kitchen to ask for lunch, and the staple food was a bowl of green fragrant rice and japonica rice. Among them, green fragrant rice japonica rice is steamed with Bijing fragrant rice. Visible, Jia Fu's high status.