1. Introduction of China Cuisine: China cuisine is called four flavors and eight major cuisines. These four flavors are: Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine and Huaiyang cuisine. The eight major cuisines generally refer to Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Anhui cuisine, Guangdong cuisine and Fujian cuisine. Good food is not just food on the table. It also includes leisure snacks, all kinds of biscuits, cakes, sugar, candied fruit, dried fruits, meat products, tea brewing and other products, which have their own flavors and can be called delicious food.
2. The characteristics of China cooking:
(1) diverse tastes. Because China has a vast territory and rich resources, there are differences in climate, products, customs and habits. For a long time, many flavors have been formed in the diet. There has always been a saying in China that "south rice is north", and its tastes are divided into "sweet in the south, salty in the north, sour in the east and spicy in the west", mainly in Bashu, Qilu, Huaiyang, Guangdong and Fujian.
② The four seasons are different. Eating according to seasons all year round is another major feature of China cooking. China has been seasoning and side dishes according to seasonal changes since ancient times, with rich flavor in winter and light and cool in summer; Stewed in winter and frozen in summer.
(3) combination of food and medicine. China's cooking technology is closely related to medical treatment. Thousands of years ago, there was a saying that medicine and food were homologous. Make use of the medicinal value of food raw materials to make various delicacies, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing and treating certain diseases.
China's ancient poems about food;
1) A breeze brought catkins, and the shop was full of sweetness. A girl Wu poured wine and advised me to have a drink, too. -The Parting of Nanjing Hotel by Li Bai in Tang Dynasty
2 Lanling wine tulip, jade bowl full of amber light. -Li Bai's Traveler in the Tang Dynasty
We open your window, overlook the gardens and fields, and talk about Sang Ma with teacups in our hands. -Meng Haoran's Passing Old People's Village in Tang Dynasty
(4) In the next four spring days in Luofu Mountain, Lu Ju and Yang Mei are new. There are 300 lychees a day, and I have grown into a Lingnan person without hesitation. -Su Shi's Eat Litchi in the Song Dynasty
⑤ Don't laugh at the farm wine, and raise enough chickens and dolphins in good years. -Lu you traveled to Shanxi Village in the Song Dynasty.
6. Snow foam and milk flowers float in the afternoon, and Artemisia Polygonatum tries spring vegetables. Human taste is pure happiness. -Su Shi's "Huanxisha, Drizzle and Inclined Wind as Han Xiao" in the Song Dynasty
People come and go on the river, but they like the beauty of perch. Look at those poor fishermen, swinging up and down in the big waves and swinging in the boats. -Fan Zhongyan's Fisherman on the River in the Song Dynasty