Characteristics of the rich family's food culture: The first characteristic of the rich family's food culture is that cheap things are expensive to make. Simply put, raw materials were originally very simple ingredients produced by ordinary people, but precious ingredients were used to help cooking, which made it out of the consumption power of ordinary people and became the unique secret of the nobility.

The second characteristic of the rich family's diet culture is to pay attention to routines and ostentation. Yuan Mei wrote in "Suiyuan Food List" that "the dishes of today's officialdom are called sixteen dishes, eight baskets, four snacks, a Manchu banquet, eight snacks and ten big dishes". It can be seen that official dishes pay great attention to ostentation and extravagance, in order to welcome the scene of delivery, and often a table is filled to make the owner face.

The third characteristic of the rich family's food culture is that the taste is moderate. That is, the taste of official dishes is not biased towards local characteristics, not too salty, not too spicy, not too sweet, and it is more attractive when served. Most people in China will not refuse this kind of taste. And the ingredients used are the most common and not easy to cause controversy.

The fourth characteristic of the rich family's food culture is that they are good at using dry goods and adopt more luxurious cooking methods. Because the aristocratic class has enough money to buy dry goods, shark's fin, sea cucumber and bird's nest are all common in official dishes.