This dish originated from a historical allusion from the Three Kingdoms period, and there are two more poetic names, also known as mink cicada tofu or Han Palace Tibetan Jiao. What is said is: In the Han Dynasty, there was a famous traitorous minister Dong Zhuo, in order to usurp the throne of the dynasty and even did not hesitate to do the amazing act of blackmailing the son of heaven to make the princes, many of whom were quite dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo's rampant behavior, among which the worst relationship with Dong Zhuo was the fierce general Lü Bu, Lü Bu, as a brave and good warrior, of course, did not allow the country he guarded with blood and sweat to fall into the hands of the traitor, so he confronted Dong Zhuo everywhere, Zhang Yun saw that such a sharp contradiction between the two people had a plan, and wanted to use Lü Bu's hand to get rid of the traitor Dong Zhuo, so he adopted the beauty plan The mink cicada was given to Lü Bu as a concubine, and the mink cicada that sank the fish and fell into the goose was a thing in the pool, and it was targeted by Dong Zhuo, a traitorous courtier, early in the morning.
One day, Dong Zhuo pretended to be drunk and deliberately flirted with the mink cicada, and even wanted to incorporate the mink cicada into his mansion, which Lü Bu was not happy, after all, the hero was sad to be beautiful, and Dong Zhuo was still the idea of his daughter-in-law, Lü Bu was furious and threatened to take Dong Zhuo's life. Later, Dong Zhuo did die at the hands of Lü Bu. Later, people used this loach drill tofu as a metaphor for this story, the white and flawless tofu is like the Han Palace, and the loach drilled into the tofu is like a mink cicada, so this dish is also known as mink cicada tofu or Hanya Tibetan Jiao.
And many people will be curious, a clear soup of stewed tofu how to be related to loach, after all, many people try this dish for the first time, see a white tofu clear soup on the table, the top may also be faintly oily, at most with some embellished carrot shreds and magnolia slices, completely can not see the loach trace. But in fact, when you gently scoop open the tofu, you will find that there is a lot of articles inside, the tofu is full of cooked loach, bite a bite of soup, chew a bite of tofu, the stock is delicious, the tofu is soft and tender, the loach is not earthy, the taste is fresh and elegant, very suitable for hot and dry summer.
Of course, there is another version of the story circulating in the anecdote, according to legend, in ancient times, an old man stewed the leftover tofu with the loach caught by the creek during the day, because it was cold and frozen, the old man also had four walls, and he hoped to use the loach to improve the food, but he did not know that when the loach was stewed with tofu, due to the gradual rise in the temperature in the pot, the witty loach was all drilled into the tofu, so that it was like a boiled frog in warm water, and the loach was slowly stewed under the protection of the tofu.
But the old man thought so much, just when he was about to move chopsticks, the slamming sound outside the door attracted the attention of the old man, he opened the door and saw a monk in this ice and snow, people are about to be frozen, so warmly greeted the monk into the house, but the old man did not have anything to eat, just happened to see his stewed loach tofu only tofu, loach disappeared, so he beckoned the monk to eat tofu together, but he did not know that the loach was all hidden in the tofu. Because the monk ate the loach and opened the meat commandment, he also used to sell loach drill tofu with the old man. In fact, no matter what the allusion of this dish is, it is a famous dish with a clean and tidy inside, and friends who like it may wish to try it for themselves.