When it comes to China's "four famous dishes", many people have no way of knowing, but when it comes to the "four beauties" of ancient China, few people can't answer, China's four famous dishes, the name of the dish is very meaningful, it is taken from the name of the four beautiful women in China. The four dishes are "Xi Shi Tongue", "Guifei Chicken", "Sable Cicada Tofu", "Zhaojun Duck", unknown these four dishes, just listen to the name has also made people think of it, presumably the four famous dishes will not disappoint people.
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Xishi tongue is actually a shellfish called "sand clam", its body is triangular, exquisite and small, from time to time there will be a small piece of white flesh spit out, like a small tongue, hence the name "Xishi tongue". Why is it called "Xi Shi Tongue" instead of "Noble Concubine Tongue" and "Zhaojun Tongue"? There was another story.
Xi Shi, born in the late Spring and Autumn period of the Yue Kingdom, born beautiful, known as one of the four great beauties of ancient times, when the Yue King Gou Jian claimed to be subject to the Wu Kingdom, but he was willing to restore the Yue Kingdom, and learned that the Wu King liked the weakness of beautiful women, so he dedicated Xi Shi to the King of Wu to help the Yue King achieve a great cause. Later, the state of Wu was defeated by the state of Yue, and the king of Yue wanted to fulfill his promise to take back Xi Shi, but was blocked by Echigo, calling Xi Shi "the daughter of the evil country", and immediately put her in a cowhide bag and sank to the bottom of the sea. Xi Shi died unjustly, incarnating as a small "shaha", and from time to time spit out a small tongue, hoping that someone would listen to her grievances.
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The dish of making the noble concubine chicken is not an ordinary chicken, but a hen with three crowns, five toes, black and white flower feathers, and the head feathers are extremely luxuriant, like the feather hat worn by European noble ladies, so it is named "noble chicken".
In ancient times, there is also a legend about this dish, one day, Tang Ming Emperor and Yang Guifei were drinking and having fun in the Hundred Flowers Pavilion, when they were happy to drink, The noble concubine not only drank a few more cups, so in the confusion, she felt that she was fluttering up, and involuntarily shouted: "I want to fly to the sky", at this time Tang Ming Emperor thought that his concubine wanted to order the dish of "flying to the sky", and hurriedly ordered the cooks to do it, which is difficult for the imperial cooks, where is the dish of "flying to the sky"? At this time, a cook said urgently, "Yes." So take a chicken to cut off the wings of the chicken, stew the chicken soft and fragrant, put it on the plate and serve it on the table, at this time Yang Guifei woke up a little, smelled the taste of this chicken, and enjoyed it happily. Therefore, this dish was also called "guifei chicken" by posterity.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > mink cicada tofu</h1>
This dish has a more familiar name "loach drill tofu", which is heard by many people, but fewer people have made and eaten it. To raise the loach in the water a day in advance, add a little oil to let it spit out the sludge in the body, and then put it into the pot the next day to stew, put cold tofu in the water, and when the loach enters the water, it will continue to drill into the cold tofu because of the hot water.
People compare tofu to mink cicadas, and loach is Dong Zhuo, Wang Yun dedicated the mink cicadas to Dong Zhuo, has achieved the purpose of separating Dong Zhuo and Lü Bu, and finally Dong Zhuo had to be like a loach in the pot, holding his head and running around, unable to escape the fate of failure.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" > Zhaojun duck</h1>
The raw materials of Zhaojun duck are duck meat, noodles and gluten, and then add shiitake mushrooms and other dishes to stew until, the flavors of the ingredients are integrated with each other, and finally a bowl of fragrant soup is boiled, and the duck meat is tender and delicious, tender and refreshing.
Zhaojun out of the plug is a story that happened in 33 BC, the Han Yuan Emperor sent Wang Zhaojun to the Xiongnu Hu Han evil Shan Yu, in order to ensure the peace of the border, since the Zhaojun out of the plug, the border for 50 years without war. After Zhaojun came out of the jam, he was very unaccustomed to eating noodles, but he liked a soup made with tofu bubbles and noodles and duck meat, and later people passed down the dish and named it "Zhaojun Duck".