Puyi’s autobiography “My First Half Life” has an account of his diet. It can be seen from it.
Pu Yi said: the biggest row that consumes human and material resources, there is nothing better than eating.
First of all, serving The Emperor to eat, on the proprietary set of terms, subordinates are absolutely not allowed to say wrong. For example: can not be called “rice”, to be called “meal”, so the meal is called “into the meal”, open meal called “pass meal “, the kitchen is naturally called “imperial dining room”.
The Time of eating is not fixed, decided by the emperor himself, at any time ordered a “pass meal”, the imperial eunuchs on the hall of the Ming Hall of the Palace of the Yang Xin shouted a “pass meal”, which then successively passed to the eunuchs outside the Yang Xin door, the imperial dining room eunuchs on West Chang Street ……
almost simultaneously, by dozens of eunuchs, carrying seven tables, large and small, holding dozens of Gold dragon vermilion lacquer boxes, vastly from the imperial dining room Road to raise the heart of the temple, received by the small eunuchs who put on the white sleeve head, set up in the East Nunnery.
Dishes usually two tables, winter will add a table of hot pot. The rest have all kinds of snacks, rice meals, porridge three tables, a small table of savory dishes. Each bowl and plate has a silver plate to test for poison, and they all have to go through a eunuch to “taste the Food” before they come.
After all the dishes are laid out, a small eunuch shouted “hit the bowl cover”, the remaining four or five small eunuchs will move to take down the dishes on the silver cover to take away, and only then the emperor began to eat.
The palace is only two meals, the so-called “morning meal”, in fact, is lunch.
One of the morning meals in February of the fourth year of XuanTong consisted of
mushroom fat chicken three fresh duck five locks of shredded chicken stewed meat stewed belly lung meat stew
cabbage, cassoulet, lamb, spinach and tofu stew, cherry meat and yam, oven meat stew
Sliced lamb with Chinese cabbage, sliced lamb, szechuan radish, duck strips with sea cucumber, diced duck with kudzu rice, roasted
Stewed sliced pork with sliced yucca, shredded lamb with shredded lamb, fried spring rolls, yellow leeks
Stir-fried pork, smoked pork knuckles and tripe, marinated bean curd, smoked dried shredded, cooked pinched vegetables, pepper oil
Stir-fried shredded cabbage, dried five spices, sacrificial meat slice Soup, white boiled seller, cooking white inside
Do not marvel whether Pu Yi can eat, because in reality he does not eat these, he eats the feast sent by Empress Dowager Longyu or the consorts, they have their own dining room, and are senior chefs. Empress Dowager Longyu inherited Cixi’s platitude, each meal has about a hundred kinds of dishes.
The food carried by the imperial kitchen served no purpose except as a row and decoration.
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