The Influence and Contribution of Ancient China Cuisine to Contemporary Catering?

For a long time, due to the influence of geographical environment, climatic products, cultural traditions and national customs, well-known local flavor schools with certain kinship, similar flavors and high popularity have been formed in a certain area, and they have become the top ten famous cuisines representing China's food culture: Jiangsu cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Guangdong cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Anhui cuisine and Chu cuisine.

There are many schools of cooking in China. Among them, Shandong, Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan and Huizhou are the most influential and representative cuisines recognized by the society, that is, the "eight major cuisines" in China. The "eight major cuisines", together with Chu cuisine and Beijing cuisine, are the "ten major cuisines".

These four flavors are Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Guangdong cuisine and Huaiyang cuisine. The formation of a cuisine is inseparable from its long history and unique cooking characteristics. At the same time, it is also influenced by physical geography, climatic conditions, resources and specialties, and eating habits.

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Since the Republic of China, cultures in various parts of China have made great progress. Sichuan cuisine is divided into Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine, Guangdong cuisine is divided into Guangdong cuisine and Fujian cuisine, and Jiangsu cuisine is divided into Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui cuisine. Because Sichuan cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Guangdong cuisine and Jiangsu cuisine were formed earlier, Fujian, Zhejiang, Hunan, Huizhou and other local cuisines gradually became famous, thus forming the "eight major cuisines" in China.

Later, the most influential and representative cuisines, which are also recognized by the society, are Shandong, Sichuan, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Fujian, Zhejiang, Hunan and Huizhou, and are usually called the "eight major cuisines" in China.

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