Cooking skills of Confucian cuisine

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: kongfu cuisine

Applicant: Qufu City, Shandong Province

Project No.: 1186

Project No.: VIII - 206

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Shandong Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Qufu City, Shandong Province

Protected by: Qufu Cultural Center

Introduction to the cooking skills of Confucius Cuisine:

Applicant: Qufu City, Shandong Province

Confucian cuisine is a kind of unique official cuisine formed by the descendants of Confucius in their long-term life practice. It adheres to Confucius's diet concept of "not tired of eating, not tired of eating" and condenses the characteristics and details of Confucian culture. It is a treasure of Chinese cuisine culture with rich connotation and artistic characteristics.

The history of Confucian cuisine can be traced back to 272 B.C. with continuous inheritance and innovation. By the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Confucian cuisine had formed a unique style of color, aroma, taste, shape, utensil and meaning. Kongfu cuisine has a wide range of materials, fine workmanship, good at seasoning, particular about containers, comprehensive cooking techniques and complex production procedures. In many techniques, especially to burn, fry, simmer, rely on, fried, grilled.

Its flavor characteristics are light, fresh and tender, soft, rotten and mellow. And the containers and dining tables and chairs are more luxurious and exquisite. There are 404 pieces of silver tableware only given by the emperor.

The formation of Confucian cuisine not only directly affected the formation of Shandong cuisine, one of the four major cuisines in China. Due to the political and economic status of Confucius in history, Confucian cuisine not only absorbed the characteristics of court cuisine, but also gathered the essence of local cuisine from all over the country. It is important to enrich Chinese food culture, preserve and study Chinese cooking skills and historical evolution, and enrich Confucian culture It is of great historical significance and time value to expand the connotation and external influence of Confucian culture.