In Gaoping City, Shanxi Province, there is a special traditional snack called "White Meat", also called "Gaoping Roasted Tofu", which is actually a kind of roasted tofu with a faint burnt yellow on the surface.
China's land is vast, and the types of tofu are also relatively rich, such as north tofu, south tofu, lactone tofu, water tofu. And there are more ways to eat tofu and stories, but among the many historical stories about tofu, this "white tofu" in Gaoping, Shanxi, is more distinctive.
Generally people who have not heard of this snack before, after hearing the first reaction will most likely think, this is not related to the Qin Dynasty general Bai Qi, careful friends, and then look at the geographical location of Gaoping City, suddenly realized, today's Gaoping, ancient known as Changping.
Speaking of Changping, it is estimated that everyone is very familiar with the famous Battle of Changping, and when it comes to the Battle of Changping, it is necessary to mention the general Bai Qi of the Qin Dynasty.
In 260 BC, the Qin and Zhao armies faced off at Changping in Shangdang County, about 10 kilometers northwest of the present-day city of Gaoping.
Zhao Guo initially sent the veteran general Lian Po, and then replaced the veteran general Lian Po, and then sent Zhao Kuo to participate in the war, that is, the idiom "talking about soldiers on paper" Zhao Kuo, the ending is known to everyone, Zhao Kuo was shot by the Qin army's random arrows, and the hundreds of thousands of Zhao troops trapped surrendered, but the premise of the Zhao army to give up resistance was after Bai Qi offered preferential conditions.
However, Qin general Bai Qi finally gave the order to kill in the pit, and hundreds of thousands of lives turned white.
When the people at that time heard the news, they were very resentful of bai qi's act of killing hundreds of thousands of people.
Later, the local people roasted tofu with fire as "white meat", ate it to relieve the hatred of the heart, and sacrificed hundreds of thousands of dead spirits.
There is even a local folk song, "Shoulder to shoulder oil lamp roaming the streets, the furnace is burning and crying." People come to transmit the history of Changping, and it is difficult to comfort them without eating tofu."
However, considering the history of the emergence of tofu, it is estimated that after the emergence of tofu, the local people roasted tofu with fire, and later, this kind of roasted tofu became a famous snack in Gaoping, Shanxi, don't look at this small piece of tofu, there is still such a major historical event.
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