0:03 - I don't think it's very accurate to depict the "food tester" using chopstick (that he uses directly into his mouth) to scoop the food directly from the plate. This means the Emperor will end up eating the food tester's saliva. The video below depicts a more realistic way it could have been done (at 30:30). Here the food tester uses a first set of chopstick to scoop the food into a plate and then use a second pair to scoop it into his mouth. Because only the second pair of chopstick touches his mouth and only the first pair touches the original food, the Emperor's food never has the food tester's saliva. ruclips.net/video/9AE2tfI4t1Q/видео.html
Yes, even today the use of "gongkuai" (literally means "public" chopsticks) is common amongst communal meals with nonfamily members or when the family has guests.
The director was Bernardo Bertolucci an Italian and this movie is especially for the western audience, as western countries don't like China so he makes Chinese people are disgusting creatures including the emperor himself and create hatred. You can also see the movie 55 days in Peking a propaganda film by Hollywood.
Yongzheng to Puyi is like 200 years apart and Puyi has no real power so alot would've changed, i think by Puyi's time all eunuchs want to be the taster or whatever cause they're not hiring anymore and they're just making up excuses to feed themselves on imperial dishes.
They didn't know much about viruses back then, this is a time before the Spanish flu and surgical masks were invented. So they didn't know this can spread diseases, all they cared about was acute food posioning. Of course, it wouldn't seem hygienic today but they didn't think of it the same way in 1912.
DmoneyS44 lol look at what year this was. This was after 1912, it was already the republic of China, not an empire anymore. This was all in the budget for him giving up power.
@@maritimezhang What does that have to do with my comment though? It remains that the money could have been spent on something more beneficial to the country and it would still create jobs
Video should be named the last lunch
O'Toole looks quite delicious...
This movie was so good but sad :(
Peter O'Toole plays the stuck-up tight ass.
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0:03 - I don't think it's very accurate to depict the "food tester" using chopstick (that he uses directly into his mouth) to scoop the food directly from the plate. This means the Emperor will end up eating the food tester's saliva. The video below depicts a more realistic way it could have been done (at 30:30). Here the food tester uses a first set of chopstick to scoop the food into a plate and then use a second pair to scoop it into his mouth. Because only the second pair of chopstick touches his mouth and only the first pair touches the original food, the Emperor's food never has the food tester's saliva. ruclips.net/video/9AE2tfI4t1Q/видео.html
ABSOLUTELY.
Yes, even today the use of "gongkuai" (literally means "public" chopsticks) is common amongst communal meals with nonfamily members or when the family has guests.
The director was Bernardo Bertolucci an Italian and this movie is especially for the western audience, as western countries don't like China so he makes Chinese people are disgusting creatures including the emperor himself and create hatred. You can also see the movie 55 days in Peking a propaganda film by Hollywood.
Yongzheng to Puyi is like 200 years apart and Puyi has no real power so alot would've changed, i think by Puyi's time all eunuchs want to be the taster or whatever cause they're not hiring anymore and they're just making up excuses to feed themselves on imperial dishes.
@@cloudygor8948 and the scene in the link is during Kangxi dynasty
Hi, do you have the a link of this where i can watch it for free?
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They didn't know much about viruses back then, this is a time before the Spanish flu and surgical masks were invented. So they didn't know this can spread diseases, all they cared about was acute food posioning. Of course, it wouldn't seem hygienic today but they didn't think of it the same way in 1912.
Apparently a single dish was so expensive it could feed a family for an entire year.
Jessie Blossom if you count the corruption that goes on it would be even greater.
But did you think how many jobs it provided to search for the best quality food? A lot. Number value vs reality is a big difference.
maritimezhang spending the money on industrializing or infrastructure, or caring for the people would have provided jobs too
DmoneyS44 lol look at what year this was. This was after 1912, it was already the republic of China, not an empire anymore. This was all in the budget for him giving up power.
@@maritimezhang What does that have to do with my comment though? It remains that the money could have been spent on something more beneficial to the country and it would still create jobs
I remember this movie they showed this on HBO
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