The main dish of the wedding banquet, the beautifying pig's trotters, is called Wanshan trotters. Let me start with a story from the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.

First of all, let us understand a background. In ancient times, people had a taboo when speaking and writing. What was the taboo? That is the name of the emperor. The articles and words that everyone writes and eats cannot have the same character as the emperor's name. It can only be said that the ancient feudal monarchy was too old-fashioned.

Then let’s turn the topic to why pig’s trotters are also called Wansan hooves? At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there was a very powerful businessman named Shen Wansan. This person is equivalent to figures like Jack Ma and Wang Jianlin today. And this person is not only rich, but also likes to make friends everywhere. Before Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, he knew Shen Wansan and was very good friends with Shen Wansan. After Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, he often went to drink and chat with Shen Wansan.

One day Zhu Yuanzhang came to Shen Wansan for a drink and chat. Shen Wansan, in addition to making money, also likes to tinker with some food. It can be said that some delicacies from mountains and seas cannot satisfy his sophisticated taste, so he made a dish by himself. This dish was a dish that no one in that era dared to eat. That is pig's trotters. Through the background introduction above, we also know that the word "pig" in pig's trotters is a homophone to Zhu Yuanzhang's "zhu". So in that era, people were very respectful of pigs, and few people dared to eat pork. But Shen Wansan not only dared to eat it, but also dared to eat it in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

He asked Zhu Yuanzhang to try this dish he made. When Zhu Yuanzhang saw that it was pig's trotters, his expression immediately changed, and he made up his mind that if Shen Wansan cut the pig's trotters with a knife, he would immediately Ordered him to be killed. The smart man knew that he was playing with fire, so he took out the bones from the middle of the pig's trotters, crushed the meat from the pig's trotters with the bones and gave it to Zhu Yuanzhang to eat. Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Shen Wanshan had restrained himself and had an innocent look on his face, so he took a bite. Surprisingly, he thought the dish tasted very good, so he asked Shen Wansan what the name of the dish was. Shen Wansan knew that if it was pork trotters, then He was doomed himself, so he told Zhu Yuanzhang that the dish was called Wan San Ho. That's how this dish came about.