Recently, there is a fashionable Internet word called "big pig's trotter", but this "pig's trotter" can not be eaten, but girls use it to mean "men do not have a good thing". How did this statement come about? It turned out to be from the popular "Yanxi Raiders" a few years ago, and Qianlong, who loved to eat pig's elbows, would distribute pork to the ministers on such a big occasion as the ancestor worship.
Friends who have not watched the TV series must think, that is good, the welfare is too good, the emperor sent pork, but everyone does not know, these are cut a large piece, only boiled with water meat, and is half-cooked, known in history as "zuòròu"), you think, so a large piece of "white boiled pork", any condiments are not put, can you eat it?
But it is a great honor to be rewarded with gizzard meat, and do you dare not eat the meat rewarded by the emperor? There are countermeasures under the policy, and the ministers have also thought of a "good way", they will prepare a kind of glutinous rice paper in advance, which is not the general "glutinous rice paper", usually soaked in the soy sauce tank for a few days, and then put in other condiments, the whole paper is full of rich sauce.
On the day of the ancestors' meat, the ministers secretly wrapped the white pork with glutinous rice paper, and then found a bubble in water, which tasted better than "white boiled pork", and later the eunuchs prepared various flavors of glutinous rice paper in advance in order to make money, and the business was booming.
Among them, the pig's elbow is the Qianlong Emperor's favorite part of the reward, which is recorded in the Qing Dynasty historical books "Xiaoting Continuation" and "Qing Barnyard Banknotes", because the emperor will not watch the ministers eat all the elbows, so everyone also means to eat a few bites, as soon as they leave the palace, they will immediately throw it away, or divide it into many parts to give to relatives, which is also considered a blessing.
So why does Qianlong prefer to reward everyone with boiled pork knuckles in white water? According to the Records of Emperor Gaozong, before the Yongzheng Emperor was crown prince, he summoned his sons to test them with half-cooked gizzard meat to see if they could eat the gizzard meat with respect for their ancestors.
It is conceivable that the princes who are usually accustomed to eating gold and jade can not eat it, and at this time, only Hongli alone ate the meat without changing his face, and was praised by the Yongzheng Emperor, who was the later Qianlong Emperor. Inspired by his father, Qianlong also continued this feature, feeling that the gizzard meat can not only express everyone's sincerity to worship the ancestors, but also show the emperor's grace, which is the best of both worlds.
In addition to the Fact that the Qianlong Emperor was able to eat these boiled pork without changing his color, there was another person who not only ate without hesitation, but also ate happily, and he was Ji Xiaolan.
Don't be deceived by the image in the TV series "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan", the historical Ji Xiaolan "wind review" is not good, his private life is particularly chaotic, and he loves to eat meat the most, many Qing Dynasty books have written that Ji Xiaolan "only drinks ten plates of pork, boiling tea a pot of ears" or "eating dozens of pounds of meat every day, not eating a valley all day long".
It means that Ji Xiaolan does not like to eat rice and so on, he loves to eat meat, and it is not a problem to have ten plates and eight plates at a meal, perhaps the number is exaggerated, but it also highlights Ji Xiaolan's habit of loving meat. Therefore, when the Qianlong Emperor rewarded the gizzard meat, the happiest person to eat was Ji Xiaolan, who was really a strange person!
References: "Meat", "Miscellaneous Records of Xiaoting", "Records of Emperor Gaozong"