What are the eight dishes and eight bowls of Qiao family in Qixian County, Shanxi Province?

Eight dishes and eight bowls have no fixed dishes, only show the ostentation and extravagance of big families or nobles.

The authentic eight bowls are: fried meatballs, potato chips, fried tofu, fried tomato boxes, steamed pork belly, stewed chicken and mushrooms, stewed pork ribs and shredded beans, and braised kelp with braised pork.

The eight courses are divided into four cold and four hot. The four authentic cold dishes are braised rice, dried cucumber slices mixed with fungus, tenderloin mixed with bean sprouts and elbow jelly; The four hot dishes are fried bean sprouts, braised fish, fried pork intestines and fried fungus with cabbage.

Historical origin

"Manchu Sacrifice Examination" records: banquets use five ding and eight lights, commonly known as eight bowls, and eight bowls are mostly used for banquets such as New Year, festivals, celebrations, welcoming guests, farewell, and marrying the rich. At that time, the eight bowls concentrated on all cooking techniques such as roasting, stewing, sauce, roasting, stewing, frying, steaming and frying.

Among them, "Amazun Meat", commonly known as Nurhachi Golden Meat, is the most representative dish, which was handed down from the Nurhachi era of Qing Taizu. .

"A Brief History of Manchu Dynasty" records that after Nurhachi unified the Northeast, he built a "hall" and erected a pole to worship heaven. Every soldier and incident must be sacrificed. "Miscellaneous Notes of Bamboo Leaf Pavilion" states that the offerings used for sacrifice must be those with pure black hair and no mottled hair, that is, they are cut before God.