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According to legend, the Yuan dynasty general Mu Huali led tens of thousands of cavalry to attack Taiyuan, and the local people used kitchen knives as weapons to resist the invasion of the Yuan army. After the Yuan army occupied Taiyuan, in order to prevent the Han rebellion, a strict knife restriction policy was implemented, stipulating that every ten households shared a kitchen knife, used in turn, and handed over to the Mongols for safekeeping.
At noon one day, it was cooking time, an old man surnamed Wang in Jinzhong went to the Mongolian family to get a kitchen knife, but it had been taken away by the neighbors, and he saw that there were still people in line in front of him, and he did not want to wait for a long time, so he decided to go home. When he went out, he saw a piece of iron next to the threshold, so he quietly picked it up and hid it in his arms.
After returning home, the old man asked his wife to "cut" the noodles with the iron pieces he picked, and the wife cooked the "cut" noodles, fished them in a bowl, and poured the marinade on him. As soon as he ate it, he had a different flavor, and said repeatedly: "Good is very good, good is very good, and I don't need to take the knife again." Later, the practice of "cutting" noodles was passed down from generation to generation, spread in the Jinzhong area, not only became a home-cooked noodle, but also spread to the city well operation, named knife cutting noodles.
Shanxi knife-cut noodles are famous in China and are one of the most popular noodles in China, together with Beijing fried sauce noodles, Wuhan hot dry noodles, Lanzhou ramen, Sichuan Dandan noodles and called China's five major noodles. Knife-sharpened gluten, smooth, soft, sharp, pasta, very ornamental. Some people wrote poems in praise, one leaf fell from the pot and one leaf floated, and one leaf left the face and came out with a knife. Silver fish fall into the water and turn white waves, and willow leaves ride the wind down the treetops.
Therefore, it seems that every delicacy hides the wisdom of the common people.