What are the characteristics of ancient Chinese restaurants

The Tang and Song dynasties appeared Bianliang, Yangzhou, Jinling, Hangzhou, Guangzhou and other metropolises, the city eateries restaurants more scenery.

The restaurant in Kaifeng, the capital city of the Northern Song Dynasty, is called "seventy-two main stores". The "store" are spacious buildings, set up elaborate hotels, the door with a "colorful building Huanmen" (pagoda), the evening lights and candles, up and down, like in Wonderland; there is a large hotel "hundred and ten into the courtyard "

When the customers were in the hotel, they had to go to the hotel to get the money to pay for the hotel.

When the customer walked into a "Grand Hotel", the hall that is to greet the seating, set up chopsticks and clean paper. At that time, "people are extravagant, a hundred end of the call," or to cold food, or to eat hot, or to lean meat, or to fat meat, each different. After listening to the hall herald "shouting hall", one by one to the "kitchen". Soon, the left hand scratch three bowls, the right arm from hand to shoulder stacked about one twenty bowls, to the table scattered, served to the customer, in full compliance with the meal ordered by each person.

Customers in the restaurant to eat noodles and soup, have to half a bowl, the store is not afraid of trouble, according to the sale of half a bowl, on the drinking customers, no matter who are given to the use of silver wine, blue ceramic plates and lanterns. If you want to eat outside the store, the store that is sent with silver containers put good wine and food for delivery, night drinks can be retrieved the next day, silver, do not need to use the deposit.

Song moved south, the capital city of Hangzhou jumped to become the country's largest commercial center, the luxury of the hotel equipment, especially in Kaifeng. At that time, the Hangzhou restaurant, the hall courtyard floor, lights and colors, every day like to meet the emperor as the platoon. Dining room in the summer with cooling ice basin, winter with a warm fire box, tableware with gold and silver decorations, banquets with musicians playing and singing, some restaurants have dozens of famous prostitutes to accompany the meal, the wind of the Northern Song Dynasty hate all the blowing to forget all.

The Southern Song Dynasty Hangzhou ordinary hotel restaurant, mainly divided into the following categories: a class of tea hotels, also known as the tea hotel, selling wine-based, selling sheet metal dishes; a class of baozi hotels, specializing in selling grouted steamed buns, thin-skinned spring cocoon buns, shrimp buns, intestines, blood and powdered food; a class of hotels called direct sale, specializing in selling a variety of yellow and white wine; a class of hotels called loose to sell one or two bowls of wine-based, and sell the blood of the offal, bean curd soup, boiled snails, clams and other meat. The first category is called direct sale hotels, which specialize in selling various kinds of yellow wine; the second category is called retail hotels, which mainly sell one or two bowls of wine at a time, and also sell blood offal, tofu soup, boiled snail, clam meat and other cheap dishes to accompany wine.

The Hotel Industry in Ancient China

Ma Jian

The earliest hotel facilities in China can be traced back to more than 3,000 years ago during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties are considered to be the period of rapid development of the hotel industry. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the main forms and development of hotel facilities in each period of ancient China.

Author Unit: Department of Tourism and Hotel Management, Weihai Vocational College

Keywords: hotel; stagecoach; inverse travel; guild

Classification number: F719

DOI: CNKI:SUN:KJXI.0.2007-21-256

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Hotel is a product of social development. China's earliest hotel facilities can be traced back to more than 3,000 years ago in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties are considered to be the faster development of the hotel industry. Ancient Chinese lodging facilities can be roughly divided into two categories: government-run facilities and private hotels. In ancient times, there were two types of official lodging facilities, namely, Yingbin Guesthouses and Post Stations. The name of welcome hotel was first seen in the late Qing Dynasty, before that, such as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period called "four barbarians hall" and so on. The welcome hotel is a house used by the government in ancient times to entertain foreign envoys, representatives of foreign nations and merchants, and to arrange for their food and lodging. The official lodging facilities were mainly ...

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