The eight major Chinese cuisines include: Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Guangdong cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Hunan cuisine and Anhui cuisine. Among them, Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Guangdong cuisine and Jiangsu cuisine were formed in the early Qing Dynasty and became the most influential local cuisine at that time, known as the "four major cuisines". By the end of the Qing Dynasty, four new local cuisines, namely Zhejiang Cuisine, Fujian Cuisine, Hunan Cuisine and Anhui Cuisine, were differentiated and formed, and * * * together constituted the "eight major cuisines" of China's traditional diet.

1, Shandong (Shandong cuisine)-the largest cuisine in the court, with the flavor of Confucius as the leader.

2. Sichuan (Sichuan cuisine)-the most distinctive cuisine in China and the largest among the people.

3. Jiangsu (Su cuisine)-the second largest cuisine in the court and the most popular cuisine in ancient and modern state banquets.

4. Guangdong (Cantonese cuisine), the second largest folk cuisine in China and the most influential China cuisine abroad, can represent China.

5. Fujian (Fujian cuisine)-the representative cuisine of Hakka cuisine.

6. Zhejiang cuisine-one of the oldest cuisines in China and the third largest in the court.

7. Hunan (Hunan cuisine)-the third largest folk cuisine.

8. Anhui (Huizhou cuisine) is a typical representative of Huizhou culture.

Chaozhou cuisine occupies an important position in Guangdong cuisine. Chaozhou cuisine mainly uses seafood, seafood and livestock and poultry as raw materials, and is good at cooking vegetarian dishes with fruits and vegetables as raw materials, making fine stir-frying and processing diverse. It can be divided into frying, cooking, frying, stewing, stewing, roasting, baking, marinating, smoking, buckling, soaking, rolling and mixing. Knife work is exquisite, and soup cooking is especially deep, among which stewed, braised and soaked soup are the most distinctive.

Dongjiang cuisine, also known as Hakka cuisine, is mainly made of meat, which is authentic and emphasizes crisp, soft, fragrant and strong. Pay attention to fire power, and be famous for stewing, roasting, stewing and baking, especially for casserole dishes.