History of Min cuisine





Min cuisines, China's eight regional cuisines, experienced one of the han culture and local central ancient YueZu culture mixing, communication and gradually formed. According to the village of MinHou GanZe town persistence in stone mountain teachings neolithic sites preserved ancient Neolithic age that Fujian used cooker TaoDing and connecting kitchen, proof in fuzhou area they start baking food by using   fictile before 500 years ago.

On the other way, Fujian is China's famous hometown of overseas, it can not be ignore that Chinese import new varieties of food and some novel condiment, which   enrich Fujian food culture and content. Fujian people's pass and overseas, especially in southeast Asia people's longtime, overseas diet custom also gradually to infiltrate Fujian people's eating life, thus with open characteristics may become a kind of unique cooking.

As early as two jin, south and north dynasties "coup of YongJia" later, large quantities of scholar form central plains of China come to Fujian and brought the central advanced science and technology culture, and fujian mixture of GuYue culture and exchange, promoted local development. After Tang dynasties, Fujian has begun to use red kojic rice as cooking condiments. muggle state Rou phase, and half of red kojic rice, soft slippery anointed embellish, entrance diaspora." because of using monascus, red also becomes the main tonal may cooking aesthetics, special aroma of red vinasse also became cooking is often used condiments, red vinasse fish, red vinasse chicken, red vinasse meat are Fujian main dishes, "cooking of red kojic rice" has become Fuzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou trading production for foreign country, cultural exchanges have become increasingly frequent, overseas skill also introduced into Fujian at inherit the traditional skill, and on the basis of the essence of steal each dish, rough, satiny custom, adjusted inner-cinnabar gradually towards fine, delicate, elegant character evolution that developed into style of Min cuisine system.