At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, with the busy water transport, Dezhou became the imperial route to Nine Provinces in Kyoto. The economy began to prosper, and roast chicken appeared on the market. Old people who sell roast chicken in satchels often appear near canal docks, water and drought stations, and official offices in the city. This roast chicken is a carefully crafted roast chicken with a taste: its form lies on its side, the color is red and fragrant, the meat is tender and delicious, and as the prototype of the later grilled chicken, it has just emerged. With the development of the economy, at this time, Dezhou City entered its heyday and has become one of the thirty-three largest cities in China. Water and land are connected, merchants are gathered, and goods from the four townships are distributed here, and there is a situation of "south to north to customers like clouds, restaurants and inns like forests". Roast chicken is not only seen on the table, but also "step" into society. There are more people selling roast chicken in the arm carry box, at the beginning of the Jia surname, and later the more famous is the Xu Enrong family nicknamed "Xu Roast Chicken", as well as the West Zhang family, etc., and it is not uncommon to open the door to set up shops. Of course, at this time, the people who ate roast chicken were still limited to the dignitaries, merchants, rich people, and the people of Li could only look at the chicken and sigh. But the inventor of roast chicken, the maker, is a real working person. In order to support their families, they work hard and operate dismally, and at the same time contribute to society. Later, chicken food was developed, in a narrow family workshop, in the ancient, extensive process, produced a primitive chicken culture, a strong chicken fragrance, and a floating city.
Created in the Qing Dynasty

Texas Grilled Chicken
In the thirty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1692 AD), on Ximenwai Street in Dezhou City, there was a roast chicken making artist named Jia Jiancai, who ran a roast chicken shop with a roast chicken shop. Since this street leads to the canal dock, the small business is not bad. One day, The Jia treasurer had an urgent matter to go out. He instructed Xiao Er to suppress the fire. Who knows that Jia Treasurer walked on the front foot, the young man fell asleep in front of the pot stove after a while, and woke up to find that it was cooked over the fire. When he was helpless, Jia came back and tried to fish out the chicken and sell it on the storefront. I didn't think it was the chicken flavor that was tempting, and it attracted many passers-by to buy it. The guest bought a taste and praised it: not only is the meat rotten and fragrant, but even the bones are crisp and fragrant when chewed, which is really fragrant through the bones. Afterwards, Jia Zhangcheng immersed himself in research and improved his skills. This has appeared the original practice of grilling chicken, that is, boiling over high heat, simmering on a small fire, in today's terms, the fire should be first martial and then wen, the martial arts are orderly, and the name of grilled chicken is "grilled" because of this. Jia jia chicken is famous, the old patron suggested giving the chicken a name. Jia Couldn't think of a name for himself. After some days, I suddenly remembered that there was a ma lao Xiucai on the street, and I thought that he could get a good name. So he wrapped up two steaming chickens that had just come out of the pot with lotus leaves, walked quickly to Ma Xiucai's house on Majia Slip Street, and proposed to ask Xiucai to taste the chicken name. Ma Xiucai tasted the chicken, asked about the method, and while tasting it, he groaned and groaned in passing: "In the heat, the flesh and bones are shaken, and the smell of the strange smell is even attacking; it provokes the old man to stretch out five fingers, and the entrance teeth are long and lingering." Shi Cheng groaned and blurted out: "What a spiced boneless grilled chicken!" In the following year, in 1693, Jia Jiancai mentioned the grilled chicken to the Lantern Festival to sell, and the sales were wide open and his reputation was greatly enhanced. Since then, there has been a situation of roast chicken and grilled chicken in Texas City, which has been produced and sold at the same time, which has lasted for several years.
