Why do some people say that Shandong cuisine, once the first of the four major cuisines, has declined? What is the reason?

Shandong cuisine was indeed the first of the four major cuisines at that time, but now it is really going downhill. Shandong cuisine is the only spontaneous cuisine, but it is not very popular in recent years.

The expansion of Shandong cuisine has obviously weakened in recent years. I think it has something to do with the character of Shandong people. Most Shandong people are used to staying at home. You can live well in the local area. Shandong cuisine is polarized. Ordinary Shandong cuisine is so common that many people don't know they are eating it even if they eat it every day. Such as sweet and sour carp, fried meat and so on. High-grade Shandong cuisine is expensive because of raw materials and the salary of a good chef. I believe that ordinary people will not spend hundreds of thousands to try it easily. Shandong cuisine has been the representative of food culture in the Yellow River Basin since ancient times, and has long occupied an important position in the north. Most Shandong people choose to work and do business in the North and Central Plains, and rarely go to the South. So there are few Lu Lu badminton restaurants in the south.

The taste of Shandong cuisine pays attention to the original ingredients. Compared with today's young people, they prefer sweet, salty and spicy. It does lose the taste of some young people, but most middle-aged and elderly people can accept it. Now the northern cuisine is basically Shandong cuisine. Anyone who has seen the journey to the East should remember that Lao Zhu's restaurant is Shandong cuisine. Nowadays, most northeastern dishes inherit the essence of Shandong cuisine and extend their own local dishes, such as the classic braised pork, which is actually authentic Shandong cuisine. After the founding of New China, there were not many Shandong dishes at the state banquet, but Huaiyang dishes were the main ones. State banquet dishes represent a country's food culture image, which is to entertain important guests with different tastes from all countries. The food culture of Shandong cuisine is profound, elegant and elegant, and it deserves to be called a state banquet. However, its material selection, cutting and cooking techniques are too particular and complicated, even in terms of time and economic cost, it is not affordable. However, its material selection, cutting and cooking techniques are too particular and complicated, even in terms of time and economic cost, it is not affordable.

Later, other cuisines stood out and became more famous than their predecessors, Shandong cuisine. This is also the development law of things that the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves before. It is the stagnation of Shandong cuisine that can't keep up with the pace of the times, which leads to the decline of its status today.