The founder of Chinese tofu and soy milk is actually the grandson of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, and his works have been passed down through the ages
The founder of Chinese tofu and soybean milk, legend has it that liu bang, the grandson of Han Gaozu, Liu An, the king of Huainan, edited by Liu An, has been famous throughout the ages.
Liu An ,179–122 BC) was a native of Feng County, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, born in Shou County, Huainan City, Anhui Province, grandson of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, and the son of Liu Chang, the Prince of Li of Huainan, and a famous writer and thinker during the Western Han Dynasty. Liu An, the king of Huainan, made an important contribution to the editing of the Huainan Honglie (also known as "Huainan Zi"), which includes Vientiane, covering politics, economy, philosophy, society, literature, astronomy, geography, medicine, health care, history, ethics and many other aspects, which epitomizes the taoist thought, and its spiritual wisdom and research value in historiography and science are still praised.
Famous sentences in "Huainanzi", such as "Walk straight, all evils rest on their own", "Sai Weng lost his horse, and he knew that he was not blessed", etc., are well known to people and have a strong view of right and wrong, good and evil. Another example is, "If you ask for fire, you can't take flint, and it is better to sink a well than to draw a well", which means: to ask for fire from others, it is better to find flint to make fire yourself, and it is better to borrow other people's wells to draw water, it is better to sink the well yourself. Such famous sentences and classic sentences abound in "Huainanzi" and still have very rare educational significance.
In addition to his literary and ideological contributions, one of the major contributions of Liu An, the king of Huainan, to China was the invention of tofu and soy milk. It is said that Liu An, the king of Huainan, was a great filial piety, and Liu An's mother liked to eat soybeans very much. Once, Liu An's mother was dead, so she couldn't eat the whole soybean. Therefore, Liu An asked people to grind soybeans into flour, boil soybean flour into porridge, and put in some plaster when boiling soybean porridge. As a result, soybean flour turned into tofu. This tofu, people have never eaten, Liu An's mother ate it, the condition immediately improved. Since then, grinding tofu and making soy milk with soybeans has been passed down from generation to generation. Oh, let's Chinese it!
On the question of the founder of tofu, the great Ming Dynasty physician Li Shizhen recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "The method of tofu began with Liu An, the former king of Huainan in the Han Dynasty. "Many people believe that Li Shizhen's account is true history. Of course, there are also people who put forward different opinions. However, no matter what the opinion, tofu is a good thing anyway, and people eat it every day.