Eight major cuisines are eight local cuisines in China's food culture, which have evolved due to differences in areas, topography, culture, climate, products and food customs. Shandong cuisine is known as the first of the eight major cuisines because of its longest history, the highest difficulty and the richest techniques. Its taste is mainly salty and fresh, highlighting the original taste of ingredients.

Shandong cuisine is most proud of its title of "Palace Cuisine". However, this does not explain its first-class status. As for why it ranks first, I think it is because of a symbol-that is, the eight major cuisines are not equal to each other, and Shandong cuisine can become the first cuisine because of its prominent position in the history of China cuisine and its symbolic significance.

Ranking of eight major cuisines

The ranking is: the first Shandong cuisine, the second Sichuan cuisine, the third Guangdong cuisine, the fourth Fujian cuisine, the fifth Jiangsu cuisine, the sixth Zhejiang cuisine, the seventh Hunan cuisine and the eighth Anhui cuisine.

China has a vast territory, vast territory and abundant natural resources, and it is a gourmet country with countless corresponding cooking materials. Because of geographical reasons and human culture, unique cooking methods have been formed in various places. With the passage of time, eight major cuisines have gradually formed. The eight major cuisines have their own strong points and unique flavors.

In fact, the eight major cuisines developed from the earliest four major cuisines. In the most traditional culinary world in China, there are actually only four major cuisines: Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Guangdong cuisine and Huaiyang cuisine; Everything else is based on this.