Nutritious Officer Authorities Dish
Bok av JIAO Mingyao
Chinese dishes are rich, colorful, exquisite, have a long history and no equal in this world. Chinese cuisine is large and complicated; in general, it can be divided into three major types consisting of royal court dish, officer authorities dish and typical local dish. The royal court dish means the imperial meal in the court, which has developed for 5000 years and goes through Xia-Shang-Zhou Dynasties, Tang and Song Dynasties, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the cooking skill is the first class in the world. Typical local dish means the home style dish with folk color in various regions and nations of China, which has existed since ancient times and has been prosperous up to the present. The officer authorities dish is between the two dishes, and it refers to the meal in the mansion of rich and powerful family as well as high-ranking officials. The ostentation and extravagance as well as the level of meal of the mansion of high-ranking officials are approximate to those of the imperial meal in the court, while the meal of the mansion of low-ranking officials adopts the essence and characteristics with folk color, which is a connecting link between the preceding and the following and achieves mastery through a comprehensive study, so that it becomes a diet cultural system.