He also said in the Palace Motto: "People should choose their own diet and things like that. If they want to eat, they must eat food that is helpful to their health." Every vegetable is less sick and healthy, so farmers are strong and healthy until they are old. Kangxi understood the importance of eating vegetables every day. He should not always eat meat, but eat more vegetables like a farmer, so that he can be healthy even when he is old.
Kangxi also said: "All kinds of edible fruits are delicious when they are just ripe, and they are very pleasant to eat. If I were a king, all the servants wanted to enter his humble heart, so I tried to enter fresh fruits and vegetables. I only tasted one bite, but I never ate one. You must eat it when it is ripe, which is also important for health. He emphasizes eating fresh and healthy food in the season and is committed to following a diet that can't eat any food.
There are all kinds of meals in the Forbidden City, among which there are many delicious dishes. For example, in the thirty years of Ganlong's Southern Festival, it was recorded that during the 124 days of Ganlong's southern tour, he drank a mouthful of stewed bird's nest with rock sugar on an empty stomach every day before breakfast, and never stopped.
Bird's nest is a common dish in imperial cuisine. According to the records of imperial cuisine, there are at least two or three dishes related to bird's nest in every meal in Gan Long. However, there are many miscellaneous grains and fruits in Qing Palace cuisine. Every spring, the imperial dining hall will make some coarse-grain snacks with newly sprouted elms, such as Yuqian cake, Yuqian cake, Yuqian cake and Yuqian soup. Qianlong likes this smell very much. Besides enjoying it himself, he will also give it to empresses, princes and officials.
In addition, the palace also attaches importance to matching seasonal diets, such as noodles and pancakes, zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival, cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival, flower cakes on Double Ninth Festival and Laba porridge on February 2nd.
Dishes made with seasonal vegetables also won the emperor's heart, such as cucumber dipped in noodle sauce, fried fresh peas, garlic eggplant, pickled cucumber, sour leek, stewed bean sprouts and steamed Chinese cabbage, which are "coarse" and healthy. Therefore, in addition to meticulous food, simple coarse food and coarse food dishes are also important roles on the emperor's table.
Kangxi likes to eat fruits and vegetables. He said, "The elderly should have a light diet. Every time they eat vegetables, they will get less sick and be good for their health. He thinks that eating seasonal vegetables and fruits is good for health. He often takes vegetarian food such as whole grains and fresh vegetables as the staple food, eats less meat and never gets enough to eat. In order to meet their own needs, the royal chef will naturally supply a lot of seasonal coarse grains.
There are nearly 100 kinds of raw materials in imperial cuisine, such as cakes, snacks, porridge and soup. Foods made of miscellaneous grains include barley porridge, millet porridge, sorghum rice porridge, barley rice porridge, yellow rice rice cake, old rice noodle cake, old rice dry rice, glutinous rice noodle nest, sweet potato, bean noodle roll, kidney bean rice cake, cowpea porridge, mung bean porridge, yellow rice porridge and so on. Common non-staple foods include tofu, dried tofu, bean skin, mushrooms, fungus, lily, walnut, hazelnut, pine nut, wild leek, and pigs, sheep, deer, chickens, ducks, geese, fish, eggs, fresh fruits and vegetables. These raw materials are peaceful products. If cooked properly, they are full of color, fragrance and taste, which makes people have an appetite.