Tell the legendary story that founder Zhang Dongguan became a royal chef and a generation of culinary masters from a commoner. This is a life legend in which dreams come true: Zhang Dongguan, who was a genius in cooking, was regarded by ordinary people as a punk with nothing, and was fired by countless restaurants in Suzhou City for cooking at random. But he has two unique skills in his body, the same in his hand: he can perform magic and acrobatic chopping skills with one hand; The same is true in his mouth: he has a tongue that can taste all kinds of ingredients, and he is eloquent and can recite long dishes and the whole ballad. Zhang Dongguan has many dreams: when he was expelled from the restaurant because he couldn't cook, his dream was to become the owner of the largest restaurant in the world; After meeting Lu Xin, a famous chef in the south of the Yangtze River, and his daughter Lu Meimei, his dream is to be a shopkeeper and marry Lu Meimei. He loves to listen to storytelling. He wants to be a Bao Long Tu after listening to The Beauty Case, a Fan Kuai after listening to The Hongmen Banquet, and a knight errant after listening to The Legend of the Chivalrous Man. Emperor Kangxi traveled to Jiangnan incognito, and Zhang Dongguan was involved in a storm to assassinate the emperor. However, due to fate, he formed a close friend with the emperor of the dynasty, and since then he has embarked on the road of rising to the top. However, it was a "rising to the top, step by step crisis", and since then he has started his four-part life of creating a Manchu banquet. Zhang Dongguan, a man of great happiness, was mistakenly named "the first chef in Jiangnan" by the emperor because of his cooking skills. Zhang Dongguan, who doesn't know the rules and can't cook, performed a comedy that caused havoc in the palace, and was almost killed or embarrassed several times. Although dangers abound, Zhang Dongguan was forced to escape from the palace when disaster struck with his grassroots wisdom, and embarked on the road of learning cooking experience in the process of escaping from the pursuit. He learned from others' strengths, and with his superhuman talent, he "stewed" the essence of Chinese cuisine in one furnace and became a generation of culinary masters. After being recalled to the palace, Zhang Dongguan became the chef of the "Thousand Feasts", and he made a great success at this famous banquet, compiled a set of 118 banquet recipes and founded the Manchu-Chinese banquet. In the end, Zhang Dongguan and his sweetheart Lu Meimei realized the dream of "opening the largest restaurant in Beijing" and also fulfilled their vows of "letting the emperor eat hundreds of meals and the people eat palace dishes". This is a love legend of "All shall be well, jack shall have Jill": Lu Meimei, a Jiangnan beauty, is Zhang Dongguan's sweetheart at first sight, but Lu Meimei only loves cooking and doesn't love him. Zhang Dongguan, who was not careful about cooking, tried to win the hearts of beautiful women, so he crustily skin of head and learned Lujia cuisine from his beautiful father Lu Xin. For the sake of a beautiful joke, Zhang Dongguan ventured into heaven to get the emperor to marry him. Intentional flowers can't bloom, but affectionate is ruthlessly annoyed. Zhang Dongguan couldn't let Lu Meimei marry him willingly, but attracted two other beautiful women to secretly promise him. Lu Meimei, who loves cooking, finds herself losing her sense of taste a little bit, which is as terrible as losing a musician's hearing. She also came to Beijing in order to taste all the delicious food in the world before her taste was completely lost. At the same time, she also hoped to make the ancestral Jiangnan Lujia cuisine famous all over the world by Zhang Dongguan's hand. In the palace and on the way to escape, after experiencing a love-hate adventure with Zhang Dongguan, Lu Meimei finally got a taste of love ... Zhang Dongguan finally got the emperor's marriage, but this time it was Kangxi misfits who asked them to marry others respectively. The lovers went through another love test. This was after Emperor Yixi captured Ao Bai and Pingsan Francisco, the country was stable and the people lived in peace, which made the Qing Dynasty enter a prosperous time of peace. Kangxi knew very well that "those who win people's hearts prosper". He decided to visit the south of the Yangtze River, visit the great sages of the previous dynasties, and eliminate the Manchu-Chinese territory, but he was opposed by the powerful Manchu prince Yan and others in the DPRK. Kangxi decided to take "appetite" as a breakthrough and went to Jiangnan to search for food, but he was assassinated by an assassin just after he arrived in Jiangnan. Lu Xin, the shopkeeper of Luyuan and a famous chef in the south of the Yangtze River, was a adherent of the previous dynasty, and was the supervisor of the dining in the palace at the end of the Ming Dynasty. He was deeply concerned about the Qing dynasty, so he was "hidden in the city" and borrowed a restaurant to be invisible. He mistakenly thought that Zhang Dongguan was a "righteous man" who assassinated Kangxi, so he took Zhang Dongguan as an apprentice and betrothed his daughter to him. Kangxi learned that Lu Xin would cook a famous dish in the Ming Dynasty, which coincided with his ideal of governing the country, so he invited Lu Xin to come out of the mountain. In order to keep his "honor", Lu Xin refused to be Zhou Su. Kangxi chose Zhang Dongguan to be the chef, in fact, it was "a thousand dollars to buy horse bones" in order to show the sincerity of seeking talents. Kangxi also set up a "erudite and brilliant ci branch" to recruit outstanding scholars in the wild to be officials in the DPRK. Lu Xin was also forced to enter the palace to edit the History of the Ming Dynasty with a group of scholars before the Ming Dynasty. Secretly, they talked about risking their lives to pay homage to Chongzhen to show their loyalty to the Ming Dynasty. Lu Xin saw that Zhang Dongguan and the Qing emperor became friends, and angrily wanted to write him into Biography of Two Ministers. Lu Meimei went to Beijing to find Zhang Dongguan to break off her marriage, but she stumbled into the Imperial Palace by mistake and became a "food spy" searching for world food for the delicious fat queen mother. A dish presented by Lu Meimei, whose taste is losing, almost killed the Queen Mother. Zhang Dongguan offered to be Lu Meimei's "tongue" and lied that he had risked his life to save his father-in-law, and had been turned into a eunuch. Lu Meimei couldn't bear to break off her marriage, but also secretly helped him cook and help him through various difficulties. Ximei, a female assassin who failed to assassinate in Suzhou, tried to poison the emperor by Zhang Dongguan's hand. Zhang Dongguan almost fell into her trap and almost got into trouble with Lu Meimei. Lu Xin therefore thought that Zhang Dongguan was looking for an opportunity to assassinate Kangxi, so he turned anger into joy and wanted to write Zhang Dongguan into the biography of loyal ministers. Seeing that Kangxi was a good emperor, Zhang Dongguan learned that Ximei was Wu Sangui's granddaughter, but she was also Kangxi's niece. With his local feelings and folk wisdom, he resolved all kinds of crises, eliminated hatred and made Kangxi and Ximei's relatives recognize each other. Zhang Dongguan remonstrated with food and teased the dignitaries; Kangxi also borrowed Zhang Dongguan's alternative diet philosophy, easily handled several difficult state affairs, and punished the corruption of the internal affairs office and the imperial kitchen. Sheng Lu, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and others regarded Zhang Dongguan as a thorn in the flesh and set him up. At the Queen Mother's birthday party, Kangxi danced the Manchu python dance for his mother, and Zhang Dongguan also amused himself by saying a ballad "Fish hide the sword" and presented the only Jiangnan dish he learned from Lu Xin-"Squirrel Mandarin Fish". I didn't expect this to be the real fish hide the sword! Zhang Dongguan got himself killed, and even Lu Xin and Lu Meimei thought that Zhang Dongguan really assassinated the emperor and the queen mother in order to be a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Dongguan became an imperial prisoner and fled all the way. Lu Meimei was also considered an accomplice. Only Ximei guessed the truth, and Ximei, who has become a princess, helped Meimei Lu escape from Beijing to pursue Zhang Dongguan. Lu Xin was thrown into the prison. Zhang Dongguan, who became a culinary master on the way to escape, finally won Lu Meimei's heart and helped her find her lost sense of taste. In order to save Lu Xin, they sneaked back to the palace and met the emperor and the queen mother, clearing their grievances. Kangxi decided to hold a special birthday party, inviting more than a thousand old people over 61 from all over the country to Beijing to enjoy prosperity. In order to hold this "thousand feasts", Kangxi told the world to invite famous chefs from all over the world to come to Beijing to offer food than kitchen. Mapo, who once taught Zhang Dongguan, and other famous chefs from all over the world have come to Beijing. At the kitchen meeting, Zhang Dongguan exposed Sheng Lu and others by the name of the newspaper, and Sheng Lu was thrown into prison and ate his prison meal. Lu Xin was invited out of prison, and Kangxi asked him to offer that "four seas and one family". Master and apprentice competed on the same stage, and Zhang Dongguan made an improved "Four Seas Family". Kangxi invited Lu Xin and Prince Yan to taste the dishes, and told them that the meaning of "being one in the four seas" is not "whether it is a king's land within the four seas", but "people are full of Han and land is divided into north and south". "Food is the sky for the people", and Kangxi is "respecting the sky and valuing the people". After Lu Xin tasted Zhang Dongguan's "Four Seas Family", which is compatible with North and South, East and West, and full of Han and good taste, he decided to change his course and admitted that his apprentice's cooking was far better than his. Zhang Dongguan won the competition and became the chef of the "Thousand Feasts". The "Thousand Feasts" was successfully held, and old people from different ethnic groups got together, including Lu Xin and Prince Yan. Kangxi also promulgated the national policy of "breeding people and never adding taxes" at the banquet. After the "Thousand Banquets", Zhang Dongguan resigned as the manager of the imperial kitchen. He wanted to open the largest restaurant in Beijing with Lu Meimei to "cook for the whole world". Instead, Lu Xin entered the imperial kitchen and became a food consultant. Kangxi Imperial Pen bestowed the signboard of "Man Han Lou". Originally, the big iron pan with full kitchen, which was against Zhang Dongguan everywhere, retired from the imperial kitchen and was hired as the chief full chef of Manhan Building. Lu Meimei also learned to cook all kinds of Manchu snacks and was named "Lu Shoumei" by the emperor. The Man-Han Building was packed with guests, and the "Man-Han Banquet" spread among the people.