Eight major cuisines: Shandong Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Guangdong cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Anhui cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine and Fujian cuisine.

Top ten cuisines: Shandong Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Guangdong cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Anhui cuisine, Beijing cuisine, Shanghai cuisine.

Cooking characteristics

Cuisine, also known as "Bangzi Cuisine", refers to the genre of China cuisine, which has formed its own system after a long period of evolution in material selection, cutting and cooking, and has distinctive local flavor characteristics, which is recognized by the society.

Chinese cuisine refers to a set of self-contained cooking skills and flavors formed in a certain region due to the differences in climate, geography, history, products and eating customs, which are recognized by all parts of the country. There are many genres in cooking. The four major cuisines of Luchuan, Jiangsu and Guangdong were formed earlier. Later, the local cuisines in Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan and Huizhou gradually became famous, thus forming the "eight major cuisines" in China.