Cold dishes are often served in the simplest form. It is named as a pagoda because it is big at the bottom and small at the top. The specific operation method is as follows: first, some cold dishes are paved into a circle in the disc, and then the same cold dishes are piled up upwards, and the smaller they get, the more they look like pagodas.

This style is suitable for all cold dishes that can't be shaped in other dishes, such as silk, diced, sliced, block and granule without certain specifications and shapes. It is characterized by rapid forming and is often used in the shape of a single dish.

Basic information

In the Tang dynasty, there was a custom of imitating garden scenery with dishes. In the Song Dynasty, cold dishes were used to imitate the landscape of the garden, especially in the temples of the Song Dynasty, where cold dishes were used to imitate the landscape of Wang Wei's "Wangchuan Villa", which was considered to be the earliest cold spell of colors in the world. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the skill of platter was further developed and the production level was more refined.

In recent years, with the development of economy, the cold spell of colors has developed rapidly, and the use range of raw materials has expanded, and its application range has also expanded, which has been favored and used by more and more chefs, greatly prospering and promoting the development of Chinese cooking culture.