There are usually at least 108 kinds of dishes served at the Manchu-Han banquet, 54 southern dishes and 54 northern dishes, which are eaten in three days.

The Manchu-Han banquet dishes include salty and sweet, meat and vegetable dishes, using a wide range of materials, fine ingredients, and all kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas.

The Manchu-Han banquet was originally a banquet where Manchus and Han people sat together during banquets in the Qing Dynasty palace.

The full banquet includes 196 items of hot, cold and meat dishes, 124 items of snacks and tea, and 320 items of delicacies.

The Manchu-Han banquet originated in the Qing Dynasty and is the most famous Chinese banquet in history that combines the essence of Manchu and Han dishes.

The Manchu-Han banquet mainly focuses on Northeastern, Shandong, Beijing, Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine.

There are 54 southern dishes: 30 Jiangsu and Zhejiang dishes, 12 Fujian dishes, and 12 Cantonese dishes.

54 dishes of Northern cuisine: 12 Beijing dishes, 30 Shandong dishes and 12 Manchu dishes.

The style of Manchu and Han banquets 1. Mongolian pro-vassal banquet: The Mongolian pro-vassal banquet refers to a royal banquet hosted by the Qing emperor to entertain the Mongolian nobles who married the Manchu and Qing royal families. It is usually held in the Zhengda Guangming Hall on the first lunar month of each year.

On the 15th, it was accompanied by the first and second-rank officials of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. At the same time, this was also the first banquet among the Manchu and Han banquets.

2. Courtier's Banquet: Courtier's Banquet refers to a banquet used by the emperor to commend and win over capable ministers. The Courtier's Banquet is held on the day after the Yuan Dynasty every year, which is the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.

They are the bachelors appointed by the emperor and those who have made meritorious deeds among the nine ministers.

3. Wanshou Banquet: Wanshou, there are two ways to say it. One is said to refer to the ages of more than a hundred elderly people participating in the banquet, and the sum of them is long live, so it is called "Wanshou Banquet". The other is the holding of the Wanshou Banquet.

The time is the birthday of the emperor and empress, and the birthday of the Long Live Lord, so it is the Longevity Banquet.

At that time, all the concubines, princes, civil and military officials will come to attend. It is said that Cixi's 60th birthday banquet cost 10 million taels of silver.

4. Thousands of Seniors Banquet: The Thousands of Seniors' Banquet started in Kangxi and flourished in Qianlong. Anyone who is fifty-five years old can participate in the Thousands of Seniors' Banquet and enjoy the feeling of a royal banquet. The participants of the Thousands of Seniors' Banquet held for the first time by Kangxi were

There were thousands of people, almost all of them elderly people. In the society at that time, there was a trend of respecting the elderly and respecting filial piety.

5. The Nine White Banquet: The Nine White Banquet has its origins. After Kangxi pacified the four tribes including the Mongolian Waisak tribe, and in the following three years of Chongde, Tuxie Tuhan, Chechen Khan, and Zasak Tuhan presented the Nine White Banquet.

There was one white camel and eight white horses, and the grand banquet held to entertain the envoys who came to deliver gifts was the so-called Nine White Banquet.

6. Seasonal banquet: The seasonal banquet is the last banquet of the Manchu and Han Dynasties. It refers to the banquets set up in the palace according to fixed annual festivals. These festivals include Yuanri, Yuanhui, Spring Plowing, Dragon Boat Festival, Qi Qiao, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, etc.

Winter Solstice, New Year's Eve, etc.

The difference between seasonal banquets and other banquets is that the food changes with the seasons. For example, the New Year's Eve reunion banquet has eight-way meals, the New Year's Day banquet must have dumplings, and the Beginning of Spring banquet has spring dishes, five-spice dishes and other delicacies.