1, the so-called "relying on mountains to eat, relying on water to draft". "One side of the soil and water will nourish one side of the people" is about adaptation. China has a vast territory and varied natural conditions. The 56 ethnic groups living on the land of China have formed their own distinctive and rich dietary customs in different natural environments. For example, herdsmen of Mongolian, Tibetan, Kazakh and other ethnic groups living on the prairie eat meat and drink milk; Hezhe people live in Sanjiang Water Town, Heilongjiang Province, and fish is the most important food. The Oroqen people who live in the dense forests of Xing 'an Mountains must eat birds and animals ... This is an unchangeable dietary pattern in the era of underdeveloped transportation. The south is suitable for growing rice, so people in the south generally take rice as their staple food; There are many kinds of wheat and miscellaneous grains in the north, so the people in the north take flour and miscellaneous grains as their staple food; The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is suitable for planting green trees, so the farmers of all ethnic groups living here are the staple food of highland barley. Shuxiang is humid, and people eat more spicy food; Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hunan, Guizhou and many mountainous areas, or because of the soil and water system, or because of the long-term lack of salt in history, people like to eat sour food ... These local characteristics in diet make China's food culture show a colorful situation.

Gourmet China takes the chronological order as the warp and the characteristics of various nationalities and places as the weft. It tells in detail the dietary conditions and customs of all ethnic groups and classes of the Chinese nation in the past 5,111 years, with a lot of dietary knowledge, which can let us know the diet of our ancestors and various places in detail and understand the essence of the Chinese nation's 5,111-car diet culture. The rich and exquisite illustrations in the book bring us visual enjoyment.

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"Food is the most important thing for the people", and eating is the primary means to achieve the goal of survival. Therefore, when life is born, it is the day when eating activities begin, but eating activities have no utensils in their initial stage. Before learning to use fire, human beings ate the same contents and ways as the animal kingdom, that is, directly eating plant fruits and animal flesh and blood. This kind of "eating like fur and drinking blood" diet did not exist and did not need any utensils. This stage is called the primitive raw food stage. After mastering the use of fire, people first barbecue food in the fire, and then eat it. Or the stone is heated and then the food is baked on the stone and eaten, thus entering the primitive cooked food stage. But at this time, no real tableware has been produced. In the Paleolithic Age, which lasted for millions of years, human beings who were still in Tongfeng survived and multiplied by two primitive ways: barbecue and baking.

China is an ancient civilization with a history of 5,111 years, and its food culture and cooking skills are part of its civilization history. It is the crystallization of China's splendid culture. China has a vast territory and diverse climate, including tropical zone, subtropical zone, temperate zone and sub-frigid zone. The terrain is diverse, with rivers, lakes and seas, mountains and plains, all of which are prepared, thus providing China with different kinds and qualities of fish, meat, eggs, delicacies, fruits and vegetables and other rich animal and plant raw materials and seasonings. For thousands of years, Chinese food has accumulated exquisite cooking skills. There are nearly 111 kinds of cooking methods, such as roasting, frying, roasting, stewing, stir-frying, frying, smoking, marinating, frying, pasting and steaming, thus forming a variety of cuisines and flavors. According to incomplete statistics, there are about 11,111 kinds of dishes in China. The famous Qing court banquet dish "Man-Han Banquet" alone has more than 121 kinds of hot and cold dishes. China's food culture, represented by this kind of big dish, shows the gorgeous and magnificent mentality of "China" and "Emperor", and shows the universal characteristics of China's traditional culture.

Chinese dishes are famous for their bright colors, strong fragrance, fresh taste and beautiful shape. The beauty of its shape, especially the fancy cold platter, is the most prominent. It is unique in shape, colorful and lifelike, presenting artistic scenery and patterns. The mountains and rivers, trees, pavilions, flowers, birds, fish and insects, rare birds and animals are all on the plate. It seems to be a beautiful picture, which gives people enjoyment. Moreover, every set of Chinese food takes an even number as the unit, and four, six, eight, ten, etc. become the general rules. As the saying goes, "Two plates serve guests, three plates serve turtles", and the pursuit of even numbers just shows China's psychological habit of paying attention to "perfection" and paying attention to even numbers.

The names of Chinese dishes are also unique, full of China traditional cultural characteristics, giving people a good aftertaste. Such as Youlong playing pearls, Yangchun Baixue, Yinzhu Peony, Jade and Green, Jade Picking Peaches, Fish Offering at the Palace Gate, and so on. Full of poetry and painting, sometimes it is a three-dimensional poem with pictures. In China, you can say where you go and where you eat. Restaurants, restaurants, restaurants and food stalls abound all over the country. Especially in large and medium-sized cities, you can taste the food flavors, famous vegetarian dishes, dim sum, noodle porridge and seasonal snacks from north and south in one place. Even abroad, there are many Chinese restaurants, almost all over the world. And these Chinese restaurants are often full of guests, overwhelmed, and the business is very prosperous. In America, there are even more Chinese restaurants. New york alone has more than 5,111.

China has a vast territory, and it is the nation that attaches the most importance to "eating" in the world. After thousands of years of development. Formed a profound "food culture". For a long time, due to different raw materials, different ingredients and different cooking methods, different places have formed their own unique flavors and different cuisines. Among them, the eight famous cuisines refer to Sichuan, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Hunan, Fujian, Anhui, Zhejiang and Shandong.