Chinese History on the Dinner Table [Chinese]

By Jing Zhang

One dish can reveal the economic, technological, agricultural development and cultural achievements of a dynasty. You can be this awesome too. When it comes to Chinese cuisine, Dongpo pork, roasted suckling pig, sweet and sour pork ribs immediately come to mind... In fact, the ancients had little interest in pork and most often ate raw fish. The fact that pig became the main dish was due to the Jurchen culture. Dog meat is one of the Eight Delicacies and must be eaten by the emperors of the Zhou Dynasty. Why did eating dog meat become an uncivilized act after the Tang Dynasty? Kong Ming and Su Dongpo lived in Sichuan but could not eat Sichuan food. It is impossible for Concubine Yang to have eaten scrambled eggs with tomatoes? Holding the chopsticks straight is not a Han custom, but a Hu custom.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN: 626744872X
• ISBN13: 9786267448724
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Da Shi Wen Hua