What food cultures are there in A Dream of Red Mansions?

Traditional diet culture in A Dream of Red Mansions. A Dream of Red Mansions depicts 36 kinds of snacks, drinks, snacks and staple foods, and 58 kinds of dishes, including not only the daily diet of many aristocratic families, but also some elegant and special dishes. Let's choose one or two representative diets to get a glimpse of the life of the nobles in the Grand View Garden.

Before and after Cao Xueqin wrote A Dream of Red Mansions, it was the time when China's traditional food culture reached its peak. With the development of social economy and traditional culture, the catering industry in China had a great prosperity in the Qing Dynasty. Hotels, teahouses and dim sum shops in big cities are lined up, and there are many markets. Small vendors selling from the north to the south come and go, and bees gather together to form a school of food culture with different flavors and characteristics. These colorful dishes can be divided into Beijing cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Guangdong cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Fujian cuisine and Anhui cuisine. Pastry is divided into Suzhou style, Guangdong style, Fujian style, Chaozhou style, Huizhou style and Beijing style. The diet spectrum in A Dream of Red Mansions is a unique food culture in A Dream of Red Mansions, which combines the North and the South, and draws lessons from the ingenious folk dishes and chef's cooking methods. This unique, novel and colorful aristocratic family food life has extremely precious value and occupies a special position in the history of China food culture.