People regard food as their paradise and human beings live in this world.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation are all essential.

Food is a basic part of the daily life of residents of any country, any region, or even any historical period.

Before the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties in my country, the primitive tribal food culture during the nomadic period was full of blood and primitive atmosphere.

The development of food productivity in this tribal era was very low, and a complete food culture system has not yet been formed.

With the establishment of the feudal era during the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the development of productive forces allowed residents to settle down.

As a result, the basic elements of food, clothing, housing and transportation were truly integrated.

With the development and inheritance of dynasties in feudal society, food culture has been contaminated by new content and new habits at the institutional level of different dynasties and at the level of other national cultures.

1. The connotation of food culture The essence of food culture is a cultural form. The diet of animals is called hunting, and the diet of humans can be called culture.

Take the Yuanmou people in Beijing as an example.

They may already know how to use fire and know the difference between cooked and raw food.

This suggests that they eat differently than animals.

Therefore, to a certain extent, it can be said that the eating habits of Yuanmou people are part of the food culture.

Food culture is more than just food.

Food culture is a cultural system that integrates various habits and creations.

In the diet, the cooking utensils used for the diet, in addition, the food and dishes in the diet are key contents of the diet culture.

In addition to food, drinking is also an indispensable part of food culture.

In ancient times, drinking was called drinking, but in the later development process, the name of drinking was changed to drinking.

Drinking alcohol, drinking tea or eating, and their own behavioral habits are also an important part of food culture.

Food culture includes more than just food.

In daily life, eating activities and food festivals are also valuable assets left by Chinese traditional culture.

In short, the food culture of any place and country is an all-encompassing cultural system.

Spiritual products and materials simultaneously support the overall structure of the food culture itself.

Food culture will not disappear over time, because food itself will survive and perish with humans.

"Hanshu" records: Jiangnan has a vast territory, or (in some areas) fire farming and water plowing (agricultural production is carried out by burning wasteland and primitive rice farming technology).

The people eat fish and rice, and their occupation is fishing, hunting, and mountain logging.

The Han and Tang Dynasties were a major turning point in ancient food culture. After the Qin Dynasty unified the six countries and unified the national culture, with the development of productivity during this period, food culture underwent significant changes in daily cooking foods and cooking methods.

ongoing changes and improvements.

The Han and Tang Dynasties were a period of rapid development of ancient my country's feudal dynasties.

The socioeconomic and political situation is relatively stable and prosperous, and ethnic wars are relatively rare.

At the same time, business exchanges have been carried out with foreign countries. At this stage, Chinese and foreign cultures are integrating and learning from each other.

In such a stable and prosperous feudal dynasty environment, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the transition in diet was particularly obvious.

During this period, an important change in ancient China's dietary lifestyle was that in the dietary system, the eating habit of three meals a day began to form after the Han Dynasty.

Before that, dietary life in the pre-Qin period mainly consisted of two meals a day.

Since the Han Dynasty, the three meals a day system has been gradually established.

After the long feudal era, it remained the standard dietary system for residents.

At the same time, the food culture of the Han and Tang Dynasties also showed the innovation of cooking seasonings.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, soy sauce was an essential seasoning in our daily cooking and had begun to be used in food production.

Although there is no direct historical evidence to prove the production of vinegar and soy sauce, there are indeed records of merchants selling vinegar and soy sauce in the Western Han Dynasty.

At that time, the name of this condiment today was not vinegar, but vinegar.

Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, a major area of ??innovation and transformation has emerged in ancient Chinese food culture, namely the rise of tea culture.

Regarding tea production and drinking habits, many inventions and creations spread in the world during the Han and Tang Dynasties.

According to literature, tea originated from Bawang Ba in the Zhou Dynasty.

Until the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, tea appeared in people's daily drinking in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the idea of ??using tea instead of wine came into being.

The rise of tea culture during the Han and Tang Dynasties left a profound mark on the development of ancient food culture.

In addition, during the Han and Tang Dynasties, cereal products such as cereals, rice, and wheat began to become staple foods in daily cooking.

Meat products accounted for a large proportion of the daily diet, and butcher shops gradually developed.

There were also some developments in vegetables during the Han Dynasty, such as growing leeks in greenhouses.

2. The essence of ancient food culture When talking about ancient food, the first thing that comes to mind is local food. These food originated in ancient times and are still used today.

Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Guangdong cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Beijing cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Hunan cuisine and Anhui cuisine are the more representative cuisines inherited from ancient times.

People in different regions of ancient China had different dietary backgrounds and showed different eating habits due to personal differences.

Therefore, its own cuisine is also characterized by spicy flavors, bright colors, exquisite materials and endless foreign diners.

When it comes to food, we can’t help but mention the old Beijing cuisine.

As the center of the feudal dynasty, Beijing was also the center of the country in terms of food.