The characteristics of Minnan food culture Fujian is called Minzhong for short, which is divided into eastern Fujian, western Fujian, southern Fujian and northern Fujian. Among them, Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou belong to southern Fujian, and they all speak a language, namely Minnan dialect. Minnan people have always paid attention to diet, forming? Fresh and light? Its flavor is unique, and it is full of color, fragrance and taste. Nowadays, all kinds of snacks are gathered in the streets of southern Fujian, attracting a large number of overseas Chinese, Taiwan compatriots and tourists to taste them.

Minnan snacks contain rich historical and cultural connotations. Food? The story of culture. Snacks pay attention to taste, nutrition and variety, and generally prefer sweet and sour, spicy, light and greasy. There are many kinds of snacks, which are renovated in style, beautiful in shape, exquisite in materials, delicious in taste and fine in workmanship. There are six categories: side dishes, hot dishes, soups, staple foods, desserts and fruits. Chefs use a wealth of special dishes, combined with the traditional techniques of frying, frying, frying, stewing and other local foods in southern Fujian, which fully embodies the flavor characteristics of southern Fujian snacks, not only retains the legacy of Tang and Song Dynasties, but also has innovative content.

The knowledge of food culture in southern Fujian is rich and colorful.

As one of the eight major cuisines in China, Cantonese cuisine is famous for its wide selection of ingredients. In Cantonese cuisine, birds and animals, delicacies, wild vegetables and flowers are all forbidden to eat. Snakes, rats, birds, insects, dogs and cats are jaw-dropping ingredients in other dishes, but they are regarded as treasures on the table. Like snakes, people from other provinces dare not enter, like in ancient times? Cup bow snake shadow? This idiom, even putting the snake's shadow in the glass by mistake, will frighten you to get sick, let alone eat it. In Cantonese cuisine, snakes are the best choice. Cantonese people have a long history of eating snakes, but it is the best choice in Cantonese cuisine. There is a song about eating snakes in the Record of Foreign Bodies in South Vietnam: The serpent is long and overflowing, and the banquet is beans or tapirs. ? Today, there are nearly 50 kinds of snake gizzards in Guangdong, and there are many restaurants with snakes as their basic dishes. Many foreigners and expatriates come to Guangdong to taste snake gizzards as a pleasure.

In fact, Guangdong people's omnivorous personality also reflects their open mind in diet. As the saying goes, soil and water support one person, and different geographical environments have created different regional personalities. Guangdong is the only place for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, which forms an open thinking structure of Cantonese people. At the same time, because it is located in the border, the control over it in the past dynasties is weaker than that in the mainland, and it is less influenced by orthodox feudal thoughts. The influence of the traditional culture of the Central Plains on it is weakening, which leads to greater freedom and tolerance.

Learn from others and seek truth from facts.

Cantonese cuisine was formed in Qin and Han Dynasties. It is based on the local food culture, and absorbs the essence of domestic Beijing, Shandong, Jiangsu and Sichuan cuisine and the cooking technology of western food. For example, soaking, barbecue and Sichuan in Cantonese cuisine were transplanted from explosion, barbecue and frying in the north, while other methods borrowed from western food and gradually formed a unique southern flavor.

All similar cultures can explore this relationship from historical connections. In the comparison of the same things in the two places, the greater the qualitative similarity, the more obvious the mutual spread. The openness of Guangdong culture is bound to be compatible, which makes the food culture inclusive and unconsciously promotes the development of food customs.

While learning from others, Guangdong's dietary customs can gradually abandon some bad habits in foreign diets and form a non-luxurious and practical style. Cantonese people pay attention to a small but refined diet. Even if they entertain guests, they will never be extravagant. They take the principle of eating well and eating well, which is in sharp contrast with some places in the north. The extravagance and waste of northerners is precisely due to the formality of etiquette, which of course has its generous and lovely side, but it should be noted that the red tape in diet cannot be accepted by the behavior of modern society. Of course, this does not mean that Cantonese people do not pay attention to etiquette. On the contrary, Cantonese people pay great attention to politeness when they treat their guests, so that they can impulsively come and enjoy themselves, and that kind of extravagance and waste that is divorced from reality is unwilling to be done by pragmatic Cantonese people.

The pragmatic spirit of Guangdong people's current diet is the inevitable result of the development of modern society. Cantonese people live up to their reputation, but pay attention to reality. The realistic spirit in Confucian culture has little influence on Guangdong. On the contrary, they are influenced by the realistic attitude of westerners. This influence has formed that Cantonese people can learn from others in their diet, but at the same time keep a pragmatic attitude.

Elaboration and pursuit of enjoyment

The production of a delicious dish depends on the orderly cooperation of all links. Cantonese cuisine has very strict requirements in ingredients, knives, cooking time, cooking time, cooking, wrapping, utensils, serving methods and many other aspects. If you cook fish, you should kill it before cooking it, so as to keep the delicious taste of the fish; Another example is the production of its platter, which must pay attention to the choice of ingredients in order to achieve the effect of beautiful shape and rich taste. A good platter is not only a dish of delicacies, but also a work of art, which is pleasing to the eye and appetizing. Nothing is more famous in Cantonese cuisine than chicken gizzards. There are hundreds of chicken dishes here, so guests can taste dozens of chicken dishes without repeating them. Almost every famous restaurant has its own signature chicken, such as Wenchang chicken in Guangzhou restaurant, deboned chicken in Beiyuan restaurant, pig-Hou chicken in Foshan and white-cut chicken in Qingyuan. For example, you must choose a small hen or castrated chicken, and Qingyuan Sanhuang chicken is the best. The most important thing in the production is the heat, which is suitable for people who are slightly bloodshot after just cooking and cutting. If it is overcooked, the meat will get old and the characteristics of the white-cut chicken will be lost.

The delicacy of food preparation is closely related to Guangdong culture, which emphasizes personal value and pursues enjoyment. Pleasure is not a one-sided pursuit of eating, drinking and having fun. It belongs to a moral category and corresponds to asceticism. Abstinence rejects worldly wealth and enjoyment, and inhibits the desire to achieve certain social goals or moral self-improvement. From the perspective of moral types, Guangdong culture does not belong to asceticism, but shows a hedonistic tendency, full of secular enjoyment of human nature and emotion, manifested in the pursuit of comfort, happiness and a better life, with the aim of working hard and enjoying it to the fullest. The word "enjoyment" has always been given a derogatory meaning in China culture. It is always associated with getting something for nothing. It is considered that enjoyment is a bourgeois way of life, and it seems that only the bourgeoisie is entitled to enjoy it. In fact, enjoyment is a very advanced lifestyle of human beings and an inevitable cultural choice when human civilization develops to a certain extent.

Since the reform and opening up, Guangdong's dietary customs have developed to a higher level, which has had a strong impact on traditional values. The gentleman is poor? , content? Eat and drink? Our concept of existence has been seriously challenged. Confucianism regards integrity as the only criterion to measure personality, and regards protecting the poor as a symbol of upholding integrity. The essence of this idea is to limit human beings to the lowest living standard. In the wave of reform, Cantonese people realize that it is desirable to live a life without luxury, but they can never judge their behavior by poverty, which enables them to open their minds and bravely pursue the continuous improvement of their living standards.