From Hangzhou, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, the paradise on earth, all the way north to Kaifeng, Henan, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, to explore the secrets of the two Song cuisines that are intimate and passed down from one place to the other in the two ancient cities.
Kaifeng Drum Tower's gourmet night market is famous all over the world, kaifeng night market has a long history, formed in the Northern Song Dynasty, has a history of more than 1,000 years.
In Kaifeng, we look at the Hangzhou famous food that we seem to be familiar with, the West Lake vinegar fish and the Kaifeng famous dish roll carp baked noodles are really a lineage, Hangzhou small steamed buns and Kaifeng soup buns are also long-standing gourmet brothers, Kaifeng folk snacks are also many, and Hangzhou's onion bun juniper, Dingsheng cake the same, the historical story behind the Song Dynasty people in order to express their hearts and make the food, today I introduce to you a great Song folk legend dish - Fengqiu roll fried, this dish is also an alias is ""yellow robe plus body". Yes, the metaphor is the story of Song Taizu Chen Qiao's mutiny of the yellow robe.
In a well-known restaurant in Kaifeng, we finally tasted this royal flavor that has traveled through thousands of years, this fragrant but not greasy, golden-colored roll fried, since the Song Dynasty is a traditional food in Yu cuisine, but it is not expensive, and it is often regarded by the public as a perfect match for wine.
Regarding this Kaifeng famous food, the hotel service staff also told us a historical story behind the yellow robe and body behind this dish.
It is said that in the Later Zhou Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, the ancestor of the Song Dynasty, inspected all the places in front of the palace and held the military power. After the death of Zhou Shizong Chai Rong, his seven-year-old son Chai Zongxun succeeded to the throne. It was assisted by Prime Minister Fan Qian and Wang Pu.
In the Spring Festival of 960, when the Later Zhou imperial court was holding a pilgrimage ceremony, it suddenly received an urgent war report from the border, saying that the Lord of the Northern Han Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty had united and sent troops to attack the Later Zhou border. Fan Qian and Wang Pu took the lead and sent Zhao Kuangyin to lead troops to resist. That night, the army arrived at Chen Qiaoyi, twenty miles away from the capital, and Zhao Kuangyin ordered his soldiers to camp and rest. The soldiers fell asleep, but some of the generals gathered together and quietly discussed. Some people said: "The current emperor is so young, we are desperately trying to fight, in the future, who knows our merits, but now we will support Zhao Dianjian as emperor!" It didn't take long for the news to spread throughout the barracks. The generals all got up, and everyone rushed to the inn where Zhao Kuangyin lived, waiting until it was dark. After Zhao Kuangyin got up, before he could speak, several people put a yellow robe that had been prepared long ago on Zhao Kuangyin's body. Everyone fell to their knees and prostrated their heads a few times, shouting "Long live." Then, pushing and pulling, he helped Zhao Kuangyin onto his horse and invited him to return to the capital with him, and Emperor Gong of Later Zhou gave up the throne. Zhao Kuangyin immediately became emperor with the name song and the capital at Tokyo (present-day Kaifeng, Henan).
Legend has it that on the night of arriving at Chen Qiao's station, Zhao Pu, the chief secretary of Zhao Kuangyin's army, ordered chef Zhao Pu to make a dish with pork stuffing and eggs. Zhao Kuangyin was overjoyed after tasting it and asked what kind of dish it was, it was so delicious. Zhao Pu hurriedly said it was pork. Zhao Kuangyin asked again, "Why does pork taste like this?" Zhao Pu replied, "Pork is very common, but it can be extraordinary when it is draped in yellow robes." This dish of egg and pork paired with roll frying has become a royal dish and has been passed down to this day.
This story stimulated my interest in exploring the origin of this cuisine and the Great Song Dynasty behind the cuisine, I heard that Chen Qiaoyi was only 20 miles away from Feng, across the river from Kaifeng in the north of the Yellow River, and now belongs to Fengqiu County, so we drove twenty miles north from Kaifeng to Fengqiu Chenqiaoyi to look for food left behind in the folk.
When I arrived at Fengqiu, I chatted with a shop owner who made rolls and fried about the legend of Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe and body, and his cuisine said that he benefited from this legend.
The shop owner said that in fact, Song Taizu's reputation in Henan was not very good, and the people's views on Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe and deception of the Later Zhou royal orphans and widows were still a little indignant.
Because decent people don't bring such a play, after eating the Lord's meal, they still want the Lord's house, not the work of a gentleman.
Watching the shop owner put the yellow robe and body food that had slipped out of the steamer basket on the board, clicked and chopped into thin slices and handed it to the diners, and sent the diners a dipping dish made of garlic juice, vinegar, salt soy sauce, and let the diners make the appetizers, I suddenly realized that although history is the history of the victors, justice has always been in the hearts of the people. If you are not a person who has to sit upright, even if you are yellow robes and add your body, you are a son of heaven, and in the hearts of the people, it is just a delicacy of wine.
The unopened rolls are a bit interesting!