History of Chinese cuisine
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The history of Chinese cuisine is marked by both variety and change. The archaeologist and scholar Kwang-chih Chang says "Chinese people are especially preoccupied with food" and "food is at the cente
A terracotta sculpture of a woman, 7th–8th century; during the Tang era, female hosts prepared feasts, tea parties, and played drinking games with their guests.
A page of Lu Yu's Classic of Tea
Dried jujubes such as these were imported to from South Asia and the Middle East. An official from Canton was invited to the home of an Arab merchant, and described the jujube: "This fruit is the color of sugar, its skin and its pulp are sweet, and it gives the impression, when you eat it, of having first been cooked in the oven and then allowed to dry."
A mural of people preparing drinks of Liao dynasty.
Chinese imperial cuisine
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Chinese imperial cuisine is derived from a variety of cooking styles of the regions in China, mainly from the cuisines of Shandong and Jiangsu provinces. The style originated from various Emperors' Ki
History of Chinese cuisine
…styles of other areas was then arranged as branches of these four: Lu (Shandong) Yang (Su) Yue (Guangdong/Cantonese) Chuan (Sichuan) Beijing cuisine Imperial Aristocrat Tianjin (Jin) Northeastern Liao Shanxi (Jin) Huaiyang Anhui (Hui) Shanghai (Hu) Zhejiang (Zhe) Henan (Yu) Hubei (E) Chiuchow (Chaozhou) Hakka…
Peking duck
Dezhou braised chicken