Chinese culture is broad and profound, the dishes are also rich and colorful, and the major cuisines are also very popular. Among them, there are some dishes with personal names, which are very famous, such as Dongpo meat, Taibai duck, Cao Cao chicken... So, do you know the story behind these "celebrity co-branded delicacies"?
The following stories are legends, and there are many versions, so just listen to them!
1. Guifei chicken wings
Want to nibble
Noble concubines and chicken wings, why are they related?
In fact, this dish has something to do with Yang Yuhuan.
There are two rumors about this dish.
The first is that after Yang Yuhuan was named a noble concubine, he once fell out of favor and drank alone. According to this, Peking Opera artists performed the play "Noble Concubine Drunk". Later, a chef was inspired to create a dish called "Guifei Chicken Wings".
This dish has the color of the noble concubine drunk, the giant wings are good at flying, and the "flying" and "concubine" are metaphors, hence the name.
The second is: according to legend, "Guifei Chicken Wings" was first created by a chef brought into the palace by Yang Yuhuan, and its original name was "Braised Flying Chicken". The former chef of yang province, when the noble concubine and Xuanzong enjoyed the moon, helped him to entertain him, and made a "braised flying chicken" for the two to taste.
Xuanzong asked the name of the chicken, and the cook said, "Braised flying chicken."
"What, noble concubine chicken, good name, good name", as soon as the emperor's golden mouth is opened, the cook and the noble concubine will be wrong, it is called "noble concubine chicken". (This and this, we don't dare to say the back of the emperor's ear, Xu is a chef with a little accent, what horse, horse what plum?) ）
Over time, the noble concubine chicken became famous.
2. Song sister-in-law fish soup
It's delicious to watch
This is the experience of another emperor and a part-time food connoisseur.
In that year, when Song Gaozong was visiting the West Lake, a woman surnamed Song offered fish soup, which was delicious. Song Gaozong said: "Delicious! "Song Sister-in-law Fish Soup became famous in one fell swoop.
3. Dongpo meat
Fat but not greasy
This dish is quite related to Su Shi's own professional career.
According to legend, Su Shi encountered a flood while serving as the governor of Xuzhou. Then Su Shi worked hard with everyone to save Xuzhou City. In order to thank him, the people slaughtered pigs and sheep to send him.
Because he could not resign, he accepted it, and then personally instructed his family to make braised pork, which was given back to the people who participated in the flood fight.
After the people ate it, they felt very delicious, so they called this dish "giving back meat".
After that, Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou as the deputy envoy of the regiment. There, he himself opened up the wasteland and cultivated the land, so he called the place "Dongpo Resident".
He also personally cooked braised pork and wrote his experience into the "Pork Eating Poem": "Huangzhou good pork, the price is like dung." The rich refuse to eat, and the poor do not cook. Slow fire, less water, when the fire is enough, it is beautiful. Get up every day to beat a bowl, and be full of your own junmo. "The impact on the ground is not small.
After that, his job was transferred again! (In other words, Su Shi is not easy!) ), and went to Hangzhou renzhizhou after fifteen years of absence.
As a result, heavy rain was encountered, Taihu Lake flooded, and large areas of crops were flooded. Fortunately, Su Shi took effective measures as soon as possible, so that the people in the western Zhejiang region passed through the most difficult period. He organized migrant workers to dredge the West Lake, build embankments and bridges, and make the old appearance of the West Lake look new.
The people of Hangzhou were very grateful to him, and they heard that he liked to eat pork the most when he was in Xuzhou and Huangzhou. (Good guys, the foodie name is out there!) So when it came to the New Year, everyone would carry the pig to him with wine.
After Su Shi received it, he instructed his family to cut the meat into squares, burn it red and crispy, and then distribute it to the migrant workers who participated in the dredging of the West Lake to eat, and everyone was amazed after eating it, and the meat he sent was affectionately called "Dongpo meat". (Lord Su is generous ~)
Therefore, this dish should be said to have been created in Xuzhou, further improved in Huangzhou, and famous throughout the country in Hangzhou.
Anyway, Su Shi really had to go up to the hall and down to the kitchen! So handsome!
4. Mapo tofu
Next meal
When I didn't read this story, I thought that Mapo tofu was because it was too spicy. Didn't expect it to be...
During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, the proprietress of a restaurant called "Chen Xingsheng Restaurant", the tofu she made was delicious, and gradually became popular. Then because of this boss lady, she had some pedestal spots on her face, and was called "Chen Ma Po", so the tofu she burned was called "Mapo Tofu".
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there are poems as evidence: Ma Po Chen's name is still passed down, tofu baked to taste the most refined, Wanfu Bridge side curtain shadow moving, Hegu Chun drunken Mr.
5. Xi Shi tongue
The "Xi Shi Tongue" material looks like this~
At first glance, this name is actually a bit infiltrative. The story also has two origins.
The first is a bit miserable:
Legend has it that during the Spring and Autumn Period, King Yue used the power of the beautiful woman Xi Shi to use the beauty plan to destroy the State of Wu, and the overall situation was established, the King of Yue wanted to take Xi Shi back to China, and the queen of yue King was afraid that Xi Shi would be favored and threaten his position. So he told someone to tie a boulder to Xi Shi's back and sink her at the bottom of the river. After Xi Shi died, she transformed into this shellfish "sand clam", expecting someone to find her, so she spat out a small tongue of lilac and complained about her grievances.
The second has less to do with Xi Shi himself:
It is rumored that Tang Xuanzong passed through Zhejiang When he was traveling east to Laoshan Mountain, the local chef made him this dish, because the dish was too delicious, so he called the chef to ask for the name of the dish.
But the chef has no culture, only know that there is a beautiful woman named Xi Shi in this place who is very famous, plus there is an accessory such as goose tongue in the dish, so he took a "Xi Shi tongue" in a hurry.
Because this dish was deeply recognized by the emperor, it spread.
Xiao Bian felt that Tang Xuanzong was really an ordinary little genius who tasted dishes!
6. Wenshan diced meat
Refreshing
This Wenshan has little to do with Fang Wenshan, who wrote songs for Jay Chou! This dish is related to Wen Tianxiang!
Legend has it that at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, when Wen Tianxiang was serving as the Right Minister, he personally led troops to counterattack Nanchang, Ji'an and other places, recovering many lost lands occupied by the Yuan army, which was deeply supported by the masses.
In order to thank the villagers for their trust in him, Wen Tianxiang set up a banquet at home and personally cooked for the villagers, one of the meat dishes is the most popular with everyone, because Wen Tianxiang is called "Wenshan", so the people call this delicious dish "Wenshan Meat Cube".
7. Too white duck
I haven't eaten ~ rough net map
Too white, I believe everyone is no stranger. After all, his ancient poems are not less for us to recite!
Legend has it that Li Bai entered the capital to worship Hanlin, but was not valued, and in order to realize his ambitions, he managed to approach Tang Xuanzong. Because when he lived in Sichuan, he loved to eat steamed duck, a famous local dish. Therefore, he took the braised steamed duck he had eaten when he was young as a model, and used the steamed fat ducks such as the century-old flower carving wine, goji berries, and sanqi to make them by hand and offer them to Xuanzong.
Emperor Xuanzong admired it so much that he gave the dish the name "Taibai Duck".
Hum, I didn't expect you to be such a Xuanzong! Only to the 7th dish, I already appreciate the three courses, really worthy of the "foodie"!
8. Cao Cao chicken
I haven't eaten it, find a concept map~
Seeing this dish, I don't know why, I want to hum Lin Junjie's: "At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were three kingdoms, and the flames were endless. Cao Cao was not long-winded, bent on taking Jingzhou..."
In fact, this story really has something to do with this song.
Legend has it that during the Three Kingdoms period, when Cao Cao was in Luzhou, he was busy with military and political affairs, overworked, and bedridden. During the treatment, the chef added Chinese medicine to the chicken according to the doctor's instructions and cooked it into a medicinal chicken. Cao Cao's condition improved day by day after eating, and he often had to eat this medicinal chicken. This dish spread and was known as "Cao Cao Chicken".
9. Meng Po soup
Concept map
This is awesome, and it sounds a little scary! After all, those who have seen some mythological plots should know it!
Legend has it that each bowl of Meng Po soup is boiled by Meng Po herself, with remarkable results and trustworthy quality. After thousands of years, there is no bad review so far.
Whatever it is, you have to drink a bowl, forget the past, and break your love!
Now if someone will stay up, then master the secret of getting rich, after all, everyone's life is stressful, to a bowl can forget the troubles, it is estimated that there is a market!
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