National banquet is known as a country's top "meal", to cook fine reputation throughout the world, and its tableware is a unique style of a nation. Let me introduce you to some of the tableware that has appeared in Chinese banquets.

In 1972, Premier Zhou Enlai and then U.S. President Richard Nixon at a state dinner, when Chinese porcelain was in abundance!

Scene of the 2014 Asia Summit Dinner

Fortune Peony State Banquet Porcelain

classical garden

The white porcelain surface is decorated in shades of sandy yellow taken from Dunhuang frescoes, with auspicious clouds with ribbons floating around, a maiden with an altar on her head, deserts, pagodas, distant mountains, ships, palm trees and other motifs lingering on the side of the plate.dinnerwareThe design of the chassis is two bouquets of peonies in full bloom, engraved in light white relief and decorated with white gold on the backing, which is both simple and noble. This is the Asia Summitstate banquetOn the cutlery.

Auspicious porcelain for Zhongnanhai

China Dragon (the most powerful Chinese dragon)

State banquet is "eat" art, but sometimes also reflected in the kung fu outside of eating, such as tableware. According to the chef once in charge of the state banquet meeting, the most special state banquet tableware, the Diaoyutai was founded at the beginning of the time with gold tableware, not gold-plated but pure gold, are a replica of the tableware of the Qianlong period, heavy to death. After a period of time, because of the fear of loss and damage, slowly not used.

Except for porcelain and solid golddinnerwareIn addition, there are silverware, stainless steel, copper, etc., there are beautifully crafted figurative tableware, such as cabbage-shaped ceramic plate, fish leaf-shaped ceramic plate, cow, fish-shaped ceramic plate, tortoise-shaped ceramic plate, persimmon-shaped ceramic tank, orange-shaped ceramic cup, chicken-shaped pot, duck-shaped ceramic tank, conch, apple-shaped bowl. Chinese dishes pay attention to equipped with utensils, the so-called "delicious but also need to be a beautiful container" is the truth.

state banquetSpeaking of the four beauties: the beauty of the environment, the beauty of the dishes, the beauty of the utensils, the beauty of the service, and the beauty of the tableware is more pleasing to the eye, which makes the current state banquet tableware in the vast majority of porcelain. High-specification glazed porcelain is Zhongnanhai, the Great Hall of the People and Diaoyutai State Guesthouse special porcelain.

The tableware used for state banquets is high-specification glazed porcelain. For example, the designers of the "Fortune Peony State Banquet Porcelain" adopted the peony, a symbol of wealth and good fortune, as the theme, and the golden peony gives people a feeling of dignity and elegance, simplicity and generosity, a style of everyone.

"Auspicious and Ruyi Zhongnanhai Special Porcelain", the pattern consists of bats, treasure like flowers, lotus flowers, auspicious clouds, longevity characters, back to the edge and the words "Auspicious and Ruyi", highlighting the nobility and elegance, and rich in the traditional ethnic flavor.

The main pattern of the "Classical Garden" is a small bridge and flowing water home, pavilion, bridge, river, birds and people in the painting, which is rich in the distinctive style of the Jiangnan garden.......The pattern is clear, crisp and elegant, combining the mood of traditional underglaze celadon and the bright softness of overglaze color, which is a perfect combination of tradition and modernity and a symbol of elegant status.

In addition to "Fortune Peony", "Classical Garden", and "Lucky Ruyi", there are also "Chinese Dragon" and so on.state banquetSpecialized porcelain, which allows the formation of a complete state banquet porcelaindinnerwareSequence.(source (of information etc) ChinaNet)