Traditional cultural food refers to the representative and historic food that has been passed down through history, region and cooking skills. These delicacies contain people's unique history, culture and traditions, which reflect the local customs and food culture of a country or a region and represent people's lifestyle and cultural connotation in this region.

Traditional cultural food can not only satisfy people's appetite and experience the beauty of food, but also provide people with perceptual knowledge of traditional culture, history and region. At the same time, traditional cultural food is also an important way to protect and inherit cultural heritage. Through the preservation and inheritance of food, future generations can feel and know the cultural heritage left by their ancestors, and then inherit and carry forward it.

The protection of traditional cultural delicacies needs to start from many angles. First of all, governments at all levels need to introduce relevant policies and regulations to strengthen the protection of traditional cultural food and the inheritance of cultural heritage. Secondly, people need to pay attention to the value of traditional cultural cuisine and strengthen the promotion of traditional cultural cuisine from the aspects of daily diet selection and publicity. Finally, the training and standardized operation of practitioners related to traditional culture and food will help to increase the quality and awareness of traditional culture and food, strengthen the protection of cultural heritage of traditional culture and food, and make it develop better.