The most famous food street in Xining is Mojia Street.

Mojia Street, according to folklore during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Mo Huaigu, an official of the Ministry of Ceremonies in Kyoto, treasured a warm and cool wine at home. This wine marigold wine, warm in winter and cool in summer, wine flavor mellow and fragrant, was regarded as a rare. When Yan Shifan found out about it, he seized it. Mo Huai Gu refused to hand over, Yan Shifan colluded with his father, Yan Song, and deported Mo Huai Gu to Xining on trumped-up charges.

Mo Huai Gu came to Xining after the building of homes here, and in the present Leiming Temple Street, south of the construction of the Moji Temple a temple, the temple molded three big bodhisattva statues, and for the Mo's ancestor's spirit, for the Mo's ancestor, the temple was completed that is to the temple named after the name of the street, it is known as Mojiajie. Mojia Street in the middle south of the Mo family pig breeding place, called pigsty. South section of the original Mo family horse breeding place, called the mouth of the stable.

Mojia Street name has been used until now. Decades Mojia Street north from the peace restaurant, south to the back door of the city's five middle schools. With the great development of Xining and the prosperity of the market economy, peace restaurant no longer exists, replaced by the soon-to-be-opened Yadu Department Store, Yadu Hotel.

Today Mojia Street is a set of catering, side dishes, neighborhood-based commercial pedestrian street, but also Xining's most famous food street is Mojia Street. Famous Chinese snacks and local specialties of Qinghai visitors abound. Today Mojia Street night market and Daxin Street night market mirror each other, is a good place for citizens and tourists night life.

History of Mojia Street

Mojia Street is one of the oldest streets in Xining, with a history of six hundred years to date.In 2012, the original Mojia Street Market was relocated to the Mojia Street Comprehensive Farmer's Market, and the history of the Mojia Street has been refreshed once again, but the legend of the Mojia Street has not disappeared, and it still stays in the hearts of people.

There are different stories about the origin of Mujiajie, but what is the same is that the origin of Mujiajie is related to the Mujia family. The beginning of the story begins at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it is said that at the end of the Yuan Dynasty in the fire of the war, Anhui Shouzhou people Mo De defected to Zhu Yuanzhang, and then in the war with the army in the repeated meritorious achievements, was appointed by the Ming Dynasty as the hereditary command of the Xiningwei, sit in the town of Xining.

Mo Yun, his son, succeeded him in this position and was rewarded with the title of Commander. Because the title is hereditary, so Mo's descendants in the present Mojia Street area built a private residence, and in the private residence built near the Mo's ancestral temple, people call it "Mojia Temple". The street in front of the temple was gradually called Mojia Street.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Mojia Street