What are the Cuisines of Han Chinese

The staple food of the Han people is mainly rice and wheat, supplemented by vegetables, meat and bean products; tea and wine are the traditional drinks of the Han people. Rice is eaten mainly in the form of rice, and there are different kinds of food such as congee, rice flour, rice cake, dumplings, zongzi, rice cake, etc.; wheat is eaten in the form of steamed buns, noodles, rolls, buns, dumplings, wontons, doughnuts, spring rolls, fried cake, pancakes, etc. The Han people are very good at cooking. Han people are concerned about and good at cooking, different regions of the Han people to stir-frying, burning, frying, boiling, steaming, baking and cold cooking methods, forming different local flavors. Han cuisine is generally categorized into eight major cuisines: Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian, Anhui, Lu, Hunan, Zhejiang and Jiangsu.

Drinking Tea

Wine and tea are the two main beverages of the Han Chinese. China is the hometown of tea, and China is also one of the first countries in the world to invent brewing technology. The cultures of wine and tea have a long history in China, and over the past thousands of years, they have formed an indispensable part of Han Chinese dietary customs and have had a wide influence in the world.

The tea drinking of Han Chinese is said to have begun in the age of Shennong, which is more than 4700 years ago. Until now, the Chinese Han people still have the custom of tea instead of gifts. The Han Chinese tea preparation is diverse: there are Taihu smoked bean tea, Suzhou flavor tea, Hunan ginger salt tea, Chengdu's Gai Bowl Tea, Taiwan's frozen tea, Hangzhou's Longjing Tea, Fujian's Oolong Tea and so on.

The Han Chinese have a basic dietary structure based on grain crops as the main food and various animal foods and vegetables as side dishes. This is a sharp difference from the dietary structure of the western peoples and the Tibetan and Mongolian peoples in China. In addition, the customary dietary system of three meals a day has been formed in the long-term development of the ethnic groups. Three meals a day in the staple food, dishes, drinks with the way, not only has a certain **** homogeneity, but also due to different geographic and climatic environment, the level of economic development, production and living conditions, the formation of a series of specific features.

China is the hometown of tea, tea, tea has been thousands of years of history, a collection of famous products, the main varieties of green tea, black tea, oolong tea, flower tea, white tea, yellow tea. The Chinese tea ceremony is well known in the world, and was introduced to Japan in the Tang Dynasty, forming the Japanese Tea Ceremony.

The Han Chinese drink tea, focusing on a "product" word. Whenever guests come, the etiquette of making and honoring tea is essential. When a guest visits, you can seek advice, choose the most suitable for the guest's taste and the best tea set to treat the guest. Tea to honor the guests, the appropriate mix of tea is also necessary. Masters in the company of guests drinking tea, pay attention to the guests cups, pots of tea residue, generally with a cup of tea, such as has been drinking half, we must add water, drink with the addition, so that the concentration of tea is basically to maintain the same before and after the water temperature is appropriate. When drinking tea can also be appropriate to tea food, candy, dishes, etc., to regulate the taste and the effect of snacks.

Tea culture in the life of the Han people, very important. King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty, tea has been used as tribute. Late primitive commune, tea became goods exchange items. Warring States, tea has a certain scale. Pre-Qin "Poetry" general collection of tea records. Another example is in the Han Dynasty, tea has become a Buddhist "sitting meditation" special tonic. Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties, there has been the wind of drinking tea. Sui Dynasty, universal tea drinking. Tang Dynasty, the tea industry flourished, tea became "people can not be one day without", the emergence of teahouses, tea banquets, tea, advocating the guest to tea. Song Dynasty, popular tea, tribute tea and tea and so on.

Rice wine

Rice wine, also known as wine, sweet wine. In the old days called "sweet". Brewed from glutinous rice, it is a traditional Han specialty wine.

Wine is not only a drink that can satisfy the physiological needs of refreshment, fatigue, medical treatment, etc., but also an important cultural media, which occupies an important position in the long-term dietary culture of the Han people. In feudal society, it was an indispensable and important offering to gods and ancestors, and in such ceremonies it played the role of a medium for communicating between man and god. In important Han festivals, wine is an indispensable necessity. There is a saying among Han Chinese that no banquet can be organized without wine. Wine can help to cheer up and increase the atmosphere of joy, and still popular in many areas of drinking "guessing", "wine order", "wine song" and other activities, is both a drinking custom, but also a kind of national amusement and folk wisdom, it has the ability to liven up the atmosphere and eliminate the effects of alcohol. It has many functions, such as enlivening the atmosphere, eliminating the power of alcohol, and displaying and exercising the intellect. Some drinking activities have formed unique cultural customs, such as drinking tusu wine on New Year's Eve, xionghuang wine on Dragon Boat Festival, chrysanthemum wine on Chongyang Festival, etc., which are widely spread among Han Chinese people, and contain deep natural and humanistic concepts of Han Chinese people, which are still praised by people today. Wine is a medium for the Han people to convey their feelings and strengthen their ties in their daily lives and various social activities. In many areas of the Han people, the girl to get married before the trip to drink a goodbye kiss wine, the bride and groom into the bridal chamber to drink a cup of wine, and so on.

Festival food

Festival food is colorful. It is often rich in nutrients, pleasing art forms and deep cultural connotations skillfully combined, becoming a more typical holiday food culture. It can be roughly divided into two categories:

One is used as sacrificial offerings. It occupies an important position in the special rituals and celebrations of the court, government, clans and families in the olden times. In most areas of contemporary Han, this phenomenon has long since ended, and only in a few remote areas or some specific occasions, there are still remnants of some symbolic activities.

The second is the specific food products for people to consume on festivals. This is the mainstream of festival food and food customs. For example, on New Year's Eve, the northern families have the habit of wrapping dumplings, while all over the south of the Yangtze River is prevalent in the rice cake, eating rice cake custom, in addition, many areas of the Han Chinese New Year's feasts are often not fish, symbolizing the "yearly surplus". Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi custom, inherited for thousands of years. Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes, implying the blessing of the reunion of relatives and personnel harmony on earth. Others such as spring cakes and spring rolls eaten at the beginning of spring, the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar to eat Lapa congee, cold food at the Cold Food Festival, the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar to eat pig's head, biting the broad beans, tasting the new festival to eat the new cereal, the wedding festivities in the drinking of the cup of wine, the longevity of life banquets of life peaches, birthday, birthday cake, etc., are all festival customs of the special food and food customs with special connotations.

Faith taboos

The Han Chinese are mostly in the first, second and third days of the first month of the first, second and third days of the birth taboo, that is, the New Year's Day food more than in the old calendar year before the cooked, the festival three days only need to return to the pot. Thought cooked is smooth, raw is reverse, and thus some places before the year will be ready for everything, the festival three days between the immobile knife cut said. Again, some areas of Henan to the third day of the first month for the birthday of the grain, this day avoid eating rice, otherwise it will lead to grain production; the past in the women's reproductive period of the various dietary taboos are more. Such as the Han people in many areas of women during pregnancy to avoid eating rabbit meat, that eat rabbit meat born of the child will be born hare lip; there are places to ban fresh ginger, because ginger shape more fingers, lest the child's hands and feet out of the six fingers. In the past, the Han women did not give birth to more than avoid eating dog meat, dog meat is considered unclean, and food is easy to incur obstetrics and so on.