Huizhou cuisine is one of the eight major cuisines in China, which originated from Huizhou Prefecture in the Southern Song Dynasty. Due to the rise of Huizhou merchants in Ming and Qing Dynasties, this local flavor spread widely. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Anhui cuisine once ranked first among the eight major cuisines.

Someone made an eight-character summary of Huizhou cuisine: salt is heavy and lewd, and corruption is mild. The pursuit of color, fragrance and taste is solid, extremely heavy, and looks beautiful. Enough salt, but still strive to preserve the original flavor of the ingredients.

Relying on mountains to eat, relying on water to eat. Although Huizhou is "seven mountains, half water and half fields, two roads and one township", its agriculture is greatly restricted. However, the local people eat vegetables with delicacies and river fresh, and the land and water are mixed, and the content is very rich. So it can be ranked among the eight major cuisines.