China's cooking embodies the Chinese nation's food culture tradition, and it has many unique characteristics compared with other countries' cooking.
(1) Various flavors. Due to the differences in climate, products and customs, the vast Chinese nation has formed many different cuisines in China's diet since ancient times. As far as local division is concerned, there are four major cuisines: Bashu, Qilu, Huaiyang and Guangdong and Fujian.
(2) The four seasons are different. Throughout the year, it is the main feature of China cooking to match the diet according to the season. Our country has always followed the seasonal seasoning and side dishes, which are mellow in winter and cool in summer. Stewed in winter and frozen in summer. All kinds of vegetables change in four seasons and are eaten at the right time.
(3) Pay attention to the aesthetic feeling of dishes. Pay attention to the harmony of color, aroma, taste, shape and container of food, and show the beauty of dishes in many ways. Chefs use their ingenious skills and artistic accomplishment to create all kinds of delicious food, which is unique in realizing the unity of color, fragrance, taste and shape, giving people a special enjoyment of a high degree of unity of spirit and material.
(4) pay attention to interest. Since ancient times, China has been paying attention to taste and interest in cooking. It not only has strict requirements on the color, aroma, taste, shape, container, quality and nutrition of snacks, but also has certain elegant requirements on the naming of dishes, the way of tasting, the choice of time, the rhythm of eating and the interspersed entertainment. Creative and full of fun.
(5) combination of food and medicine. China's cooking technology is closely related to medical treatment. China has always attached great importance to "homology of medicine and food" and "homology of medicine and food", and used the medicinal value of food raw materials to cook various delicious dishes to achieve the purpose of preventing and treating certain diseases.
Some traditional food allusions in China
"Food is the most important thing for the people", with the rise of returning to natural food, traditional food is increasingly favored by people. In fact, the origin of these foods has its wonderful legend.
When steamed bread was handed down from the Three Kingdoms, Meng Huo, the owner of Nanman Cave in southern Sichuan, always attacked and harassed him, and Zhuge Liang personally led the troops to conquer Meng Huo. Lushui area is vast and sparsely populated, miasma is heavy, and Lushui is toxic. Zhuge Liang's men put forward a superstitious idea: kill some "Na Man" prisoners and give their heads to the river god of Lushui. Of course, Zhuge Liang could not promise to kill the prisoners of "Nan Man", but in order to boost morale, he came up with a way: using flour and dough brought by the army, kneading them into heads and steaming them as sacrifices instead of "Nan Man" to worship the river god.
Since then, this kind of pasta has been handed down and spread to the north. But being called "human head" is so scary that people change the word "person" into "person" and write it as "steamed bread". Over time, steamed bread has become the staple food of northerners.
Crystal Cake Crystal Cake is a famous scenic spot in Weinan, Shaanxi. It is characterized by gold-faced silver bands, crisp peeling, cool tongue and teeth, and sweet and palatable. Legend has it that Kou Zhun, an official in the Song Dynasty, was honest and won the hearts of the people. One year, Kou Zhun returned to his hometown Weinan from Kyoto, the capital of the Song Dynasty, to visit relatives in the countryside, which coincided with his 50th birthday. Hard-working villagers sent birthday peaches, noodles and plaques to congratulate them, and Kou Zhun hosted a birthday party. After three rounds of wine, Kou Zhun opened an exquisite paulownia box containing 50 crystal clear snacks. On top of the dessert, there is a piece of red paper with a poem written neatly: "Gong crystal eyes, crystal heart, can distinguish between loyalty and treachery, innocence and no dust." It was signed by the old man of Weibei. Later, the chefs in Kou Zhun also made this kind of dim sum, and Kou Zhun gave it a nice name according to its characteristics, called "Crystal Cake".
According to legend, during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a girl named Fusang, who was a maid of a big sugar shop in Neijiang, Sichuan, and advocated Yaxian's family. Once, when Zhang Yaxian was away, she scooped up a bowl of syrup and was about to drink it. Zhang Yaxian came, and Fusang quickly poured the sugar water into the pig tank, hid it in the woodpile, and covered it with some bran.
A few days later, when Fusang held out the pig oil barrel, the barrel was filled with many glittering and translucent things, which were crisp, pure and sweet and tasted better than sugar. Fusang talked about this strange phenomenon, and so did many people. Because the produced sugar looks like ice and tastes like honey, people call it rock sugar.