What are the characteristics of ancient hotels in China?

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, metropolises such as Bianliang, Yangzhou, Jinling, Hangzhou and Guangzhou appeared, and urban food stores and restaurants showed more scenery.

The restaurant in Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, is known as the "seventy-two main halls". The "Head Office" is a grand hotel with elegant architecture, and the "Coloured Building and Happy Gate" (arched door) is posted on the gate. At night, the lights are brilliant, just like being in a fairyland; There is a big hotel, which is unprecedented in scale.

When customers enter the "Grand Hotel", waiters come to meet them and put chopsticks and clean paper. At that time, "everyone was in a hurry", whether it was cold food, hot food, lean meat or fat meat. Hearing this, the waiter shouted and reported to the kitchen. After a while, the waiter scratched three bowls in his left hand and folded about a dozen or twenty bowls in his right arm from hand to shoulder. He spread them out on the table and served them to the customers, which was exactly in everyone's order.

Customers eat noodles and drink soup in restaurants, some want half a bowl, and the store disdains to sell half a bowl. For customers who drink, no matter who they are, they will use silver wine vessels, blue porcelain plates and lamps. If you want to eat outside the store, the store will send someone to put the wine and food in a silver container for delivery, and you can get the silverware back the next day without a deposit.

In the Song Dynasty, Hangzhou, the capital, became the largest commercial center in China, with luxurious hotel facilities, especially in Kaifeng. At that time, the lobby and floor of Hangzhou Hotel were decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, just like welcoming the emperor every day. In the restaurant, there are ice basins to cool down in summer, warm boxes in winter, tableware decorated with gold and silver, musicians playing and singing at the banquet, and some restaurants also have dozens of famous prostitutes to accompany the wine. The decadent wind blew away all the hatred of national subjugation in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Ordinary hotels and restaurants in Hangzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty are mainly divided into the following categories: one is teahouse, also called tea restaurant, which mainly sells wine and dishes; One is the steamed bun restaurant, which specializes in grouting steamed buns, thin-skinned spring cocoon steamed buns, shrimp steamed buns, sausage blood noodle soup and other delicacies; One is called direct selling hotel, which specializes in all kinds of yellow rice wine and white wine; One is called San Restaurant, which mainly sells one or two bowls of wine at retail, and also sells cheap dishes such as blood stains, bean curd soup, boiled snails and clam meat as wine.

China ancient hotel industry

Jian Ma

The earliest hotel facilities in China can be traced back to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties more than 3,000 years ago, and the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties were considered as a period of rapid development of the hotel industry. This paper aims to introduce the main forms and development of ancient hotel facilities in China.

Author: Department of Tourism and Hotel Management, Weihai Vocational College

Keywords: hotel; Post station; Driving in the opposite direction; City hall (of a certain industry)

Classification number: F7 19

DOI:CNKI:SUN:kjxi . 0 . 2007-2 1-256

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Hotels are the product of social development. When the social productive forces develop to a certain stage, human beings have traveled, and people need a place to spend the night during long-distance travel, so hotels that provide overnight rest and meals for travelers appear. The earliest hotel facilities in China can be traced back to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties more than 3,000 years ago, and the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties were considered as a period of rapid development of the hotel industry. Accommodation facilities in ancient China can be roughly divided into official facilities and private hotels. In ancient times, official accommodation facilities mainly included hotels and post stations. The name of the hotel was first seen in the late Qing Dynasty. Before that, it was called "Siyi Pavilion" in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The hotel is an ancient official residence, which is used to entertain foreign envoys, representatives of foreign nationalities and businessmen and arrange their accommodation. The owner of official accommodation facilities ...

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