The imperial dishes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties ... Many historians hold that after the Ming Dynasty, China gradually closed its door to the outside, yet many foods from the South and West ...
He ate mostly food cooked with the flavors of South China during his ruling ... 1567), a prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, had many high – grade sets of dinnerware among his articles of ...
The Cold Food Festival in his honour was inspired by his death The largely forgotten Cold Food Festival, known in Mandarin as ...