Food and snacks Shandong cuisine, also called Shandong cuisine.

It has a long history and wide influence.

It is an important part of Chinese food culture and has become the first of the four major Chinese cuisines, but it is the most unknown cuisine. It is famous at home and abroad for its fresh, salty, crisp and tender taste, unique flavor and exquisite production.

Shandong cuisine originated from the Qi State and the Lu State (today's Shandong Province) during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was formed during the Qin and Han Dynasties.

After the Song Dynasty, Shandong cuisine became one of the representatives of "Northern Food".

From Qilu to Gyeonggi, from inside the Pass to outside the Pass, its influence has reached the Yellow River Basin and the Northeast, and it has a broad base of food people.

Shandong cuisine is one of the most widespread local flavor cuisines in my country, covering Beijing, Tianjin, Tangshan and the three northeastern provinces.

The geographical differences in Shandong Province are large, resulting in the formation of three major systems: coastal Jiaodong cuisine (mainly seafood), inland Jinan cuisine, and self-contained Confucius cuisine.

Shandong cuisine pays attention to pure seasoning, and the taste is salty and fresh, with the characteristics of fresh, tender, fragrant and crispy.

They pay great attention to the preparation of clear soup and milk soup. The clear soup is clear and fresh in color, and the milk soup is white and mellow in color.

There are more than 30 cooking techniques commonly used in Shandong cuisine, especially the frying and grilling techniques which are unique and specialized.

The frying method emphasizes rapid fire and quick frying; the grilling technique is unique to Shandong cuisine. The raw materials are pickled and sticky, and the two sides are fried to brown, and the juice is absorbed slowly over slow fire; the grilled finished product is neatly formed, with strong flavor and rotten texture, and the juice is tight and thick.

The main specialty snacks in Shandong include: Mengyin Braised Rabbit Head, Yishui Fried Mountain Beef, Guangrao Donkey Meat, Yishui Soybean Oil Stir-fried Ginger Buds, Linyi Fried Cicada Turtle, Yishui Big Pot Whole Lamb, Yishui Collapse

Pancakes, Yishui fried dumplings, Yishui fried white-scaled fish, clear oil pancakes, oil spins, eight batches of fruits, rose sugar fried cakes, five-nut buns, spring cakes, shredded chicken wontons, Changqing large vegetarian buns, people's pan-fried buns

Bao, silver rolls, fried chicken spring rolls, Jinan rice noodles, Jinan sweet foam, Fushan ramen (stretch noodles), Jingzhi golden noodles, Shanxian and Tengzhou mutton soup, fried egg noodles, fish dumplings, bean juice porridge, shredded chicken

Yifu noodles, chicken soup glutinous rice, Linyi grits, Tengzhou grits, Chaotian pot, lotus leaf porridge, Tengzhou vegetable pancakes, Babao tea soup, melon meatballs, stone spin cakes, hexagon spin cakes, sugar crispy stick head fire, Taishan tofu noodles

, Yantai braised subs, Penglai noodles, pear balls, dragon and phoenix fried rice, Longkou meat box, Furong shaomai, Weifang fire roast, chicken and duck Hele, Chaotian pot.

Dezhou braised chicken, Yucheng braised chicken, Baodian donkey meat, Leling golden jujubes, Laiwu hot tofu, Laiwu sausage, Boshan crispy pot, Lijin fried buns, Shanxian mutton soup, Caozhou Geng cake, etc.

[Edit this paragraph] Opera Culture Shandong is one of the areas with earlier theatrical activities in my country.

The birth of its dramatic art can be traced back to the Qilu kingdoms more than 2,000 years ago.

In the Sui Dynasty, the Qi Dynasty became famous throughout the country, and in the Tang Dynasty, the drama of joining the army became popular in Shandong.

It can be said that the long-term popular singing, dancing, opera, and actor activities are indispensable and important processes for the development of Shandong opera.

After the formation of Song Zaju, it also spread to Shandong. At the end of the Jin Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, a form of opera sung with Northern Opera emerged, that is, Yuan Zaju. Shandong was one of the main popular areas. Zhong Sicheng of the Yuan Dynasty wrote "Gui Gu Bu" and Jia Zhongming's "Gui Gu Bu" in the early Ming Dynasty.

There are 28 opera writers from Shandong recorded in "Sequel", 4 of whom are good at singing.

The most prosperous place for opera is Dongping. There are 10 Yuan opera writers from Dongping, including Gao Wenxiu and Zhang Shiqi. The most outstanding one is Gao Wenxiu, whose work "Black Tornado with Two Heads" is deeply loved by the people.

Shandong opera entered a period of vigorous development during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Li Kaixian's "The Story of the Sword" and Kong Shangren's "The Peach Blossom Fan" have outstanding achievements and have the greatest influence.

In terms of performances, there are more professional theater troupes and frequent activities.

By the middle of the Qing Dynasty, dozens of different opera types were active in Shandong.

It can be roughly divided into bangzi tune, xiansuo tune, elbow drum tune, etc.

There are now more than 30 types of opera popular in Shandong, which can be roughly divided into Bangzi tune, Xiansuo tune, Elbow tune and folk songs, dances and raps.

Popular types of Bangzi Opera in Shandong include Yu Opera (i.e. Henan Bangzi), Shandong Bangzi, Laiwu Bangzi, Zao Bang, Liangjiaxian, Donglu Bangzi, Hebei Bangzi and so on.

Popular areas include Heze, Jining, Linyi, Zaozhuang, Tai'an, Jinan, Liaocheng, Dezhou, Laiwu, Binzhou and more than ten cities.

Henan Opera actors Zhang Lan, Zhu Guiqin, and Li Xinhua who won the Plum Blossom Award are also active on stages across Shandong.

Xiansuo tune originated from the popular folk tune Xiaoling, passed through the stage of Xiansuo acapella, and then developed into an opera tune.

Due to differences in spreading regions and accompaniment instruments, as well as the influence of other arts, Xiansuo tune has formed different types of operas with different styles. The main ones popular in Shandong include Liuzi Opera, Daxianzi Opera and Luozi Opera.

Liuzi Opera, known as "Dongliu", is one of the most widely spread and influential types of Xiansuo opera.

Representative plays include "Li Yaxian Misses Her Husband", "Diao Chan Misses Her Husband", "Yingying Misses Her Husband", "Li Sanniang Misses Her Husband" and other "Top Ten Missing Husband Plays".

Elbow drum tune is an opera tune that gradually evolved based on the popular folk flower drum yangko, with "sissy tune" as its main tune.

The opera types included include Liuqin Opera, Wuyin Opera, Maoqiang, Liuqiang, Dengqiang, Donglu Elbow Drums, etc.

The types of operas developed from rap include: Lu opera, Zhuo opera, Yugu opera, Eight Immortals opera, Languan opera, etc.

In 2001, Linqing, Shandong Province successfully held the first National Peking Opera Fans Art Festival.

The famous Peking Opera performing artist Yuan Shihai calls Shandong Linqing the "Hometown of Peking Opera".