Is it true that the emperor described in "Dragon Ball" in history went to the imperial chef to steal vegetables?

In the first few episodes of Dragon Ball Legend starring Andy and Michael, there was a paragraph in which Emperor Kangxi disguised himself as a bodyguard, disguised as Jackie Chan, and went to the imperial dining hall to steal food. Many viewers are asking why the emperor stole food. Aren't you usually full?

Screenwriter Li Yaling explained, "Because dragon three has a fixed food intake and doesn't give much food, people are growing up and hungry, so they have to steal food in the middle of the night."

This reason suddenly sounds a bit unreasonable. Even the king of a country is not enough to eat, but also quantitative, which makes people secretly steal food from the chef ... Do you think that even if the people don't have enough to eat, can the emperor still eat?

So is this really the case in history?

The whole process of the emperor's eating.

Because cooking smells of oily smoke, the emperor set the imperial dining room in a very remote place in the palace. Because all the palaces in the Forbidden City should have meals at the same time, eunuchs should calculate the distance to deliver meals to each palace and ensure that they are delivered at the same point. When the deliveryman was sent to the palace, the eunuch in charge of royal meals ordered the little eunuchs to set food. After the dishes are set, they will be tested with a silver brand, and then the eunuch will try them specially. The double guarantee is for the safety of the emperor. Otherwise, the cakes of Emperor Kangxi in Dragon Ball Legend will be poisoned. After the emperor began, the waiter should always observe the emperor's eyes and take whatever dishes he saw.

The emperor's eating is roughly such a process, so what will they eat in the end? It is indeed recorded in historical materials.

For example, according to historical records, Emperor Qianlong had 13 dishes for breakfast, namely: stewed bird's nest with rock sugar, stewed pickled cabbage with fried chicken, boiled duck with bird's nest pot, boiled duck with wild fat bird's nest chicken, sliced mutton, roasted lamb belly with black pork, silver sunflower box side dishes, side dishes with silver plates, stuffed tofu with chestnuts, duck tofu soup, steamed buns and bamboo buns.

According to "Lunch", the diet of Emperor Qianlong was generally around 15, with 25 dishes as the main course.

Detailed records about Puyi breakfast: "Breakfast in February of Xuantong four years: three fresh ducks, five strands of shredded chicken, braised mutton, cherry yam, sea cucumber duck strips, sliced meat soup for offering sacrifices to the gods, etc. 26 products. " But the scale of food in Cixi is different. She is a little extravagant. Usually, she has 48 dishes, which is probably 108.

Although Ganlong's New Year's Eve dinner is not as delicious as Cixi's, it is amazing. According to the diet records of Qing Palace, there are more than 30 chickens and ducks alone. Pork, almost 100 Jin, mutton, venison and fish also have dozens of Jin.

Emperor Xuan Tong of the Qing Dynasty also recorded his own food list in his memoirs. At the age of five, he had to deal with about 1 10,000 kilograms of meat and nearly 3,000 chickens and ducks a year.

In a word, you know that emperors have rich meals.

Moreover, according to historical records, the average cost of a meal of Qing emperors, if converted into RMB, is about 1 10,000 yuan.

But if you think that the food is so rich that the emperor will eat comfortably, it is wrong.

First of all, unlike our three meals a day, the Qing emperor had two meals a day.

Breakfast is about 6: 00 to 8: 00, and dinner is about 2: 00 to 4: 00. Eat snacks at most when you are hungry.

Secondly, there was a rule in the court of the Qing Dynasty that the emperor could not show what he liked to eat, even if it was a dish he particularly liked, he should abide by the family law of "eating only three spoonfuls of dishes".

Besides, eunuchs are really strict. For example, today the emperor thinks braised pork is delicious. He wrote it down without biting the eunuch. If there are more than three bites, the food will be taken away immediately. What's more, it won't be served for two months in a row ... even if you hire a chef, people may not cook it for you. For example, Daoguang once wanted to eat a piece of soup and asked the eunuch to send it to the chef. Chef, even if he doesn't do it ... Daoguang can't help him, because all the food comes from their hands, so the emperor is relatively tolerant of chefs. ...

So it is estimated that the emperor went to steal vegetables.

For example, Emperor Tongzhi did not have enough to eat when he was a child. Once he was so hungry that he broke into the eunuch's residence and stole his things. After being discovered by eunuchs, they immediately took it away and threw it away.