Jiangnan is a land of plenty, which has been relatively rich since ancient times. In ancient times, agriculture was emphasized while commerce was suppressed. However, businessmen were rich in profit, but their status was extremely low in any dynasty. Therefore, it is necessary to take pains to please some officials, and to please them, naturally, is to throw money at rare objects. In terms of entertainment, all kinds of rare things that have not been eaten have become the mainstream.
Later, in the Qing Dynasty, because nomadic people had no systematic regulations on banquet, after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, some officials submitted a banquet plan to the royal family on the basis of these Han documents. The emperor thought it was feasible, so he agreed with a stroke of the pen and named it "Man-Han Banquet". Its banquet types can be roughly divided into six types, namely, courtier banquet, longevity banquet, Mongolian pro-vassal banquet, nine-white banquet, thousand-banquet and seasonal banquet.
Although the Manchu-Han banquet is all 108 dishes, it is different in terms of various banquet types. Different banquets have different types of delicacies, but what remains unchanged is that each dish is a treasure. Now that animal protection has reached a higher level, the dishes in the Manchu-Han banquet are doomed to be unable to be presented.
In China, the food has been passed down from ancient times to the present. As long as there are recorded dishes, there are real ones. Although there are some wonderful ways to eat them, in the orthodox recipes, every dish recorded in the current literature has its own origin. Compared with other cultures, the food culture is even worse. Although it is good to question, it is more embarrassing.