The most fascinating thing about the Celestial Empire is its history.

With 5,000 years of history, there are so many stories to tell.

Even if it's just a banquet, you can tell a lot of allusions.

It's like the table they eat now, which looks like an ordinary home-cooked meal, but in fact, it is not, this is the menu personally formulated by the founding prime minister of the country.

Shallow and talked to the two women: "We have eight major cuisines in the Celestial Empire, namely Lu, Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian, Suzhou, Zhejiang, Hunan and Hui, considering that the guests at that time came from all over the world, the founding prime minister of the Celestial Empire decided that the dishes at the banquet should be mainly Huaiyang cuisine, which is suitable for both the north and the south. Huaiyang cuisine is a sub-cuisine of Su cuisine, and its taste can basically satisfy all guests. ”

Shallow and said: "The four hot dishes on Master Wang are steamed chicken with straw mushrooms, fresh mushroom cabbage heart, braised carp, and stewed lion's head, in fact, in addition to these four hot dishes that night, there are four treasures of abalone, red grilled autumn duck, braised prawns, and fresh mushroom cabbage heart.

But at that moment when the founding of the People's Republic of China was just founded, our country was poor and white, and this was also the most sumptuous state banquet after the founding of our Celestial Empire, because after that night, the specifications of the future state banquet were positioned by the prime minister as four dishes and one soup. ”

Alice agreed: "Premier Zhou of your country is a great man, and I admire him. ”

Qianqian sighed: "Whether it is the Celestial Empire or the West, when the country was first established, it was always poor and white, and it was simply unimaginable for our country to eat such a table of food at that time. Do you know who these dishes are for?"

Alice said strangely: "Didn't you say a state banquet, the people who entertained should be Chinese and foreign guests, or some big people, right?"

Anya said, "Although I agree with Alice, I don't think Shallow will ask us such an obvious question." Excuse me, who is the main entertainer?"

Qian Qian said proudly: "At that time, the banquet was for representatives of all walks of life, the most were farmers, and this banquet was for farmers, and more than 600 people attended the banquet that night. ”

Seeing Anya and Alice's ignorant appearance, he explained to them: "Let's put it this way, the significance of the peasants' participation in the state banquet is equivalent to the American imperialism in 1861 to let blacks participate in the banquet of the White House, which is a kind of declaration, and the people, who occupy the largest population of the Celestial Empire, have officially stood up from that time." ”

Alice and Anya applauded spontaneously, maybe they didn't understand the significance of the peasants in the Celestial Empire at that time, but they knew the difficulties of black liberation, and to put it mildly, now in the United States, the living environment of black people is very difficult, and all kinds of discrimination can be seen everywhere.

With a shallow smile: "Since the first banquet of the founding of the country, the state banquet of the Celestial Empire has gone through seventy or eighty years of development, and now it has become a wonderful flower of the Celestial Empire's cuisine, known as 'Tang Cai', which is very popular with Chinese and foreign guests.

Master Wang is actually the person who came out of there, and almost no one remembers the 'First Banquet of the Founding of the People's Republic of China', no wonder Master Wang still remembers. Anya, your fiancé is really good enough to you, you must know that please this master, and other idlers will not have this face. ”

Anya smiled happily: "You are exaggerating, there are several chefs in my family, all of whom have served as Australian leaders, and I don't think it is too difficult to invite." ”

Qianqian sighed: "The national conditions are different, in the Celestial Empire, the best chefs are almost all the top leaders who serve the Celestial Empire, they are basically senior culinary technicians, our country has such a saying since ancient times, learn the art of literature and martial arts, and sell it to the emperor's family." Those who serve leaders work for a long time, and they will not be removed from their positions until they retire.

But I see that although Master Wang is old, he is still early to retire, and your fiancé really has worked hard. ”

Anya didn't speak while eating, she didn't expect that her own cook also had such a background, fortunately, this Mr. Wang came for a few days. Otherwise, Anya could really be an ordinary chef.

Alice was curious: "Shallow, why do you use chopsticks instead of spoons and forks?"

shrugged: "Alice, I think you're a little confused, in fact, our Celestial Empire is the first country in the world to use utensils.

According to archaeological excavations, we have been using spoons for about 8,000 years, forks for about 4,000 years, and chopsticks for the shortest time. ”

Anya and Alice grew up with their mouths, and the most helpless part of the Celestial Empire is here, with a history of thousands of years, which is especially surprising to Westerners, and it is only a matter of the seventeenth century that there are white people living in Tai O.

Asa continued: "Why don't you use a fork, it's a pity that it was eliminated as early as the Warring States period. ”

Anya and Alice couldn't believe it, let alone them, many Chinese themselves didn't believe that dinner forks had been used in the history of the Celestial Empire before.

According to archaeological records, in the era of the Warring States Period, about 2,500 years ago, the Celestial Empire was still using dinner forks, but since the Warring States Period, there has been no physical unearthing, and chopsticks are used instead. ”

Shallow smiled: "The reason is very simple, because chopsticks are so easy to use, as long as you learn it, you can use chopsticks to deal with too much food, even peanuts." ”

Anya agreed: "Although it is difficult to learn, it is indeed as shallow as I said, it is very convenient. ”

"Chopsticks actually represent our cultural traditions. ”

Anya and Alice are a little unacceptable, how can this represent your culture?

Qian Qian picked up a pair of chopsticks and gestured to them: "The regular chopsticks are round at one end and square at the other, symbolizing 'the sky is round and the place is round', which is our ancients' cognition of heaven and earth;

When holding chopsticks, the thumb and index finger are on the top, the ring finger and the little finger are on the bottom, and the middle finger is in the middle, which is the image of the three talents of heaven, earth and man, which is the ancients' understanding of the relationship between man and the world. ”

Anya and Alice have already stayed, and there is still so much attention to these two chopsticks?

"Chopsticks also contain our understanding of Tai Chi and Yin and Yang, Tai Chi is one, Yin and Yang are two, one is divided into two, which means that everything is composed of two opposites, two into one, and the combination of Yin and Yang also means a perfect result." ”

Looking at the stunned two, he asked with a smile: "You went to Chinatown to eat, and there were no chopsticks on the table, how did you shout?"

Alice blurted out, "Of course, I asked the waiter to add two chopsticks." ”

Shallow shook his head: "If it is a Celestial Empire, they will say, 'A pair of chopsticks'! So, as long as you listen to this, you can easily distinguish whether you are Chinese or not." ”

Anya exclaimed: "I didn't expect a pair of chopsticks to have such a great knowledge, but I am still obsessed with the culture of the Celestial Empire." ”

He smiled harshly, "You think this is the end?"

Alice was surprised, "Is there anything else to pay attention to?"

Qianqian nodded: "That's right, the standard length of regular chopsticks is seven inches and six minutes, which means that people have seven emotions and six desires, to show the fundamental difference between humans and animals." ”

Anya and Alice were already dumbfounded, the chopsticks that can be seen everywhere in Chinatown are so exquisite, and they don't know that they claim to be civilized people.

Said with a shallow regret: "There are still a lot of etiquette and taboos for using chopsticks, let's not talk about it, and then you two won't be able to eat." ”

Anya and Alice actually nodded stupidly in agreement, a pair of chopsticks really calmed them!