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Eating, wearing, living, and traveling, eating is ranked first, which may also verify the national characteristics of the Chinese that take food as the sky. Although China has developed a variety of food eating methods, and various cuisines have been formed everywhere, in the backward era, most of the people who can fully satisfy their appetites are those who hold power and wealth.
In the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, seeing that the country would not be a country and the great powers invaded, empress dowager Cixi was still greedy and extravagant, and all kinds of extravagance and waste made posterity spurn, and she also spent a lot of effort on eating. At that time, Cixi had to put at least a hundred dishes on the table every day, and there were enough hundred chefs to run for Cixi's diet, and if they were not careful, they would be beheaded. At that time, there was a dish cixi had eaten for ten years, but after asking for the ingredients, she angrily cut the chef's door.
At that time, there were hundreds of imperial cooks for Cixi, and each of them made a dish every day. However, an old man can eat as many things as he wants, so cixi most of the dishes are a formality to taste. Generally speaking, the dish Cixi who does not like it can eat a bite, and the delicious dish stays two or three times more chopsticks. But there was a dish that Cixi liked the most, and the eunuch also arranged it after observing it, and every three forks and five chefs would make this dish for Cixi.
After eating like this for several years, one day Cixi came to her senses and asked the chef what the name of the dish was and what it was made of. But the chef's answer made Cixi furious.
When the chef learned that Empress Dowager Cixi had summoned her to inquire about the recipe of her dish, he was naturally overjoyed. What was heard in the ear was the eunuch's sinister exhortation: Do not look up at the empress's face, this is disrespectful. Wait and talk better, so that the empress dowager can appreciate you. Unexpectedly, the cook walked up to Cixi with excitement, and after replying to a sentence about the sheep going into the water, Cixi completely blew up the stove and ordered the chef's entire family to be beheaded.
However, what kind of dish was this sheep going into the water, and what was wrong with it, which provoked Cixi, a moody old woman.
What is the water, the so-called water is actually the internal organs of animals. Because there are many secretions inside the internal organs of animals, it is very troublesome to deal with them, and if they are not handled well, they are dirty. So in the ancient nomads, the water was generally thrown away. Whether it is sheep or pigs, in the eyes of the nomads, going into the water is what the inferior people eat.
However, any food that reaches the hands of the Han people can show a different style. Under the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, mutton began to flourish in the Central Plains, but most of the Central Plains people could not get used to the smell of sheep. Therefore, the eight immortals of the major cuisines cross the sea, each showing its own magic, and many methods are used to remove the smell and turn the lamb into people's table delicacies. The sheep sewage is also in the hands of the Chef of the Central Plains, turning decay into magic and becoming a famous dish.
However, if the average chef does not handle it well, it is difficult to clean up the sewers, for example, the pig underwater many people like to eat part of the food: pig intestines, want to clean up, this is really a craft. Logically, the chef configured by Empress Dowager Cixi should be very skilled in cooking, so why was Cixi indignant because she ate the water, and even directly killed the whole family?
This is in addition to Cixi herself as a mighty blessing, so for a little thing angry, followed by the nomads have an impression of the water, in their view, the water is not the part used to eat, the Qing Dynasty originally originated from the Manchus, this nomadic people in the grassland for many years, have not tried the development and utilization of sheep sewage. Even if they entered the pass, they still scorned the practices of the Central Plains.
It was for this reason that Empress Dowager Cixi learned that she was eating sheep water that she became furious and killed the innocent cook. Poor cook, still dreaming of future glory and wealth, but ended up like this.
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