Food in Chinese History from Age to Age

History of any food or Chinese cuisine has been understood from the archaeological discoveries. Namely by searching habits Peking Man, and the use of fire and the discovery of cooking about 400,000 years ago. They used fire to cook their catch animals. This can be seen on the site at Zhoukoudian, there is charred animals and tools for cooking.

From age to age civilization started to grow, and habits and how to cook food is also experiencing change. Modern human civilization preceded by the Han Dynasty. There is always a big class difference between the ordinary citizens who live outside the empire, with a life in the area of the empire.

In a prolonged winter, will lead to agricultural crisis because of difficulties in water and food supply problems. The most commonly consumed in the Han Dynasty was the rice, foxtail millet, proso millet and beans.  After the Han Dynasty, many subsequent dynasties of civilization and of course have different habits. However, they also maintain the  ancestral traditions. Dynasties after the Han Dynasty, among others: the Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty. During the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) relations with the West to make China recognize the major crops, products and other foreign foods and ways or methods of presenting food preparation.

Since contact with the new world, China began to recognize other food ingredients. An example of the Spanish empire, buying sweet potatoes, maize, and peanuts. Danseiring with the times after the Chinese dynasty experienced turnover, also after the formation of the People’s Republic of China, the population of this country has experienced much suffering, hunger, and food supply crisis.

Food Cultural Revolution happened in China in the 1990s, this revousi called a Communist-style cuisine. Other recent discoveries of Retro-Maoist, this happens during the celebration of 100 years of Mao Zedong. Menu farmers such as corn flour cakes, and rice porridge. Also in this period, the influence of Islam is also included in the Chinese food culture.

In order to revive the ancestral cuisine, they held a festival Hui, the Hui Traditional cuisine. Efforts revival of traditional cuisine has experienced success. For example in 1994, Yan Family Restaurants, earn net income of 15,000 Yuan per month. This is far above the average national salary at that time.