Four-star full moon is named after Mao Zedong.
It was1April, 929, when Gongsijun returned from western Fujian to Gannan, divided his troops and mobilized the masses. The third column of Gongsijun came down to Gulonggang, Xingguo County, led by commander Wu Zhonghao and party representative Cai Xiemin. Mao Zedong entered Xingguo County for the first time with a guard platoon, and was led by Chen Qihan, the county party committee leader of Xingguo. Welcome from Hu Can and others. At that time, the Red Army broke out from Jinggangshan and fought for several months, sleeping in the wind and eating, quite gaunt. So, Chen Qihan and others decided to invite Mao Zedong to have a meal in sumptuous food, a traditional "steamed rice noodle fish" for rejuvenating Hakka. That night, Mao Zedong sat down at the table and was surprised to see four small dishes, such as fried peanuts, fried pork with bamboo shoots and scrambled eggs, around a bamboo steamer with a size of more than one foot. When I opened the lid of the cage, I realized that it turned out to be a dish. He tasted a piece of fish fillet, which was fresh, spicy and fragrant, quite in line with his spicy taste, and he couldn't help eating it cheerfully.
Mao Zedong ate for a while, left his chopsticks behind and asked, "What's the name of this dish?" Hu Can said: "Hometown food, without a name, is called steamed fish with powder." Chen Qihan said with a smile, "Everything in the Palace has a beautiful name. What do you think the name of this dish is today?"? "Mao Zedong said with great interest," It's good to have a name. Confucius said it was justified! " Little tilt, he pointed at the steamer with bamboo chopsticks in his hand and said humorously, this is a big reunion month! Pointing to four plates, he said, These are four stars! Four small plates are surrounded by a big steamer, just like stars around the moon. I think it's called' four-star moon', okay? "
Mao Zedong is worthy of being a poet and politician, and his name has been endowed with beautiful and romantic colors, serious and profound connotations. Since then, Xingguo County, a Hakka-style dish, has been included in China's famous cookbooks, and it has also taken to the state banquet in Zhongnanhai.
"Four Stars Looking at the Moon" was named after Mao Zedong, and its reputation spread far and wide, and its cooking was also very particular. Fish should be fresh, sliced and mixed with refined potato powder for use (stop for half an hour). First, put a few green leaves in the bamboo steamer, then spread dried powder and taro slices. After steaming over high fire, spread the fish slices, pour a layer of paste made of pepper, ginger and sesame seeds, cover them, steam over high fire for 8 minutes, and then serve. When the lid of the cage is lifted, it is steaming, with strong fragrance and spicy taste, which makes people's breath produce saliva and appetite open.
After liberation, Guo Moruo praised the dish as "the first dish in the world" when he tasted "four stars looking at the moon".
1970, during the Lushan meeting, after more than 40 years, Mao Zedong specially invited Chef Chen from Xingguo to cook this dish in Lushan. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, every time Mao Zedong went back to Jiangxi, he always wanted to look at the moon with four stars, and introduced this dish to Zhongnanhai. 19721February platform ticket Deng Xiaoping returned to Xingguo, naming him as "looking at the moon with four stars", saying that he was revisiting history. Although the four-star moon platform ticket is a famous dish, it is actually simple in materials and low in cost, and its standard is similar to that of four dishes and one soup. It is famous throughout the country for its food culture representing the revolutionary tradition.
China's food culture has a long history, and there are more than thousands of famous dishes, but the famous dishes like the four-star full moon, which are connected with the revolutionary history of China, are a unique landscape.