The Qianlong Emperor went down to Jiangnan six times and left countless classic snacks.
In the field of gastronomic invention, the only person who can compare with Qianlong Ye in history is probably Empress Dowager Cixi.
Interesting history miscellaneous, the young girl Cixi and the crystal clear sheep's eye bun
Cixi's father, Hui Zheng, once worked in Changzhi (Lu'an Province), Shanxi, where he still has the story of the young girl Cixi and the sheep's eye bun.
As the eldest lady of the official eunuch family, Cixi (apricot) in her teenage years was particularly fond of food. She lived with her father Huizheng in Lu'an Province, and was very fond of eating buns, which was almost a daily necessity and never tired of eating.
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However, one day, Xing'er suddenly sighed directly at the bun, but did not move the chopsticks. The mother, Fucha, thought her daughter was ill and asked why.
Xing'er said: You often teach me that as a showgirl, you should pay attention to your own manners between your hands and feet. The daughter also always remembers to do not look back, do not lift her lips, pace no inch, smile without showing her teeth.
But recently I found that although the buns I eat every day are delicious, they are really too big and unsightly to eat, so please ask the kitchen to use the same filling and steam some smaller buns tomorrow.
The mother answered with a full mouth and asked the kitchen master to improve the cooking.
The chef replied: This bun is not steamed in the back kitchen, but bought by the little man every day at a nearby Hui bun shop.
In order to meet her daughter's request, Xing'er's mother sent someone to the bun shop and asked them to try several small buns for "Maiden Cixi".
Since it was the prefect's qianjin who made the request, the store was naturally full of promises.
The next day, a delicate plate of small buns was placed on the apricot table.
This plate of buns not only tastes as before, but also has a delicate shape, lifted like a lantern, exquisite like a sheep's eye, so it was named "sheep's eye bun".
Later, Xing'er entered the palace, was named Lan Guiren and Yi Guifei, rose step by step, and finally became the Empress Dowager of the Mother of The Mother, and listened to the government. Empress Dowager Cixi, who is the mother of the world, also remembers this "sheep's eye bun", and often orders the imperial dining room to make it and enjoy it as a snack.
According to the local folklore of Changzhi, although Huizheng and Fucha were fond of the young girl Cixi, she was indeed an adopted daughter.
It turned out that Huizheng, the governor of Lu'an at the time, although his official position was not high, he could not bear to see his daughter enter the red wall and suffer. However, seeing that her own daughter has grown up day by day and has reached the age of drafting, she cannot hide it.
At this juncture, a girl named Wang appeared. It is said that the girl's family was in Xipo Village, Changzhi County, and because of the poverty of her family, she was sold into the Huizheng Mansion as a maid. Madame Fucha saw that her face was beautiful, and she was clever and quick-witted between words, and she took care of her.
He consulted with Hui Zheng to adopt the woman as a borer