Food Culture in Taiwan Province Province

The food culture in Taiwan Province Province is mainly Fujian Minnan food culture, but it also combines the characteristics of Chinese mainland food culture, forming a rich and colorful food culture.

Food culture of Gaoshan nationality;

In the early days of Gaoshan people, millet and sweet potato were the staple foods, and they used their hands when eating. Later, with the increase of mainland immigrants, they gradually absorbed the diet of the Han nationality and switched to chopsticks, and rice gradually became the staple food. However, many Gaoshan people still retain many traditional characteristics. For example, the Yami people in Lan Yu have different restrictions on eating fish. Gaoshan people like drinking, and the wine brewed with millet also shows a unique drinking culture.

Fujian Hakka food culture;

This is the most important food culture in Taiwan Province Province, which developed from Fujian and Guangdong and became today's "Taiwan Province Cuisine". Its main feature is to emphasize seafood. In the Hakka culture of Fujian, hotels often set up Buddhist shrines in order to pray and make a fortune. In addition, Taiwan Province Province, like Fujian and Guangdong, has a strong tea drinking culture, likes to make pot tea, and pays attention to the exquisiteness of tea sets and brewing methods, which is especially popular with "Kung Fu Tea". In history, Taiwan Province Province also produced several famous purple clay pots with strong heat resistance and elegant appearance, such as spring and autumn gardens and dish pots. Nowadays, the tea culture in Taiwan Province has also made new progress.

Food culture of religious belief;

Religious belief is very popular in Taiwan Province, and people attach great importance to the food content of offerings during festivals or ancestor sacrifices. If the raw is used to worship heaven, the cooked is used to worship ancestors. Nowadays, vegetarianism is very popular in Taiwan Province Province.

Food supplement culture:

Taiwan Province Province, like the southern part of the mainland, is very particular about complementary food. Now it can be said to be a healthy food culture. In Taiwan Province Province, the concepts of health preservation and old age prevention, "Yin and Yang complement each other" and "harmony of five elements" are profound. At present, there are mainly vegetarian diet, raw food, organic diet, fasting therapy and traditional Chinese medicine diet therapy in Taiwan Province Province. "Shen Si Soup" (yam, Gordon Euryale seed, lotus seed and Poria cocos) is a common nourishing drink and a famous nourishing snack in Taiwan Province Province. The most unique folk food tonic custom is the so-called "half-year tonic", that is, on the first day of the sixth lunar month every year, every household rubs balls with rice flour to make sweet pills, which can cure all diseases in summer. In addition, there are "winter supplements" or "winter supplements" in Taiwan Province Province, that is, winter supplements.

Food culture with unique flavor;

Taiwan Province's distinctive flavor food culture can be said to be all-encompassing, which combines Taiwan Province Province and local snacks in Chinese mainland. Well-known tempura in Miaokou of Keelung, meatballs in Changhua, chicken rice in Chiayi, tribute pills in Hsinchu, burden noodles in Tainan and cakes in Shilin.