Mushu meat in the wood beard is the egg, wood beard meat is a northern dish, said the old Beijing is more concerned about the old reason, taboo egg this sound, called the egg is generally called chicken, the southern egg, here called the loose egg, scrambled eggs and called the spread of yellow vegetables, etc., and the egg as a supplement to the dish is called muxu, muxu is the discipline of the name of the osmanthus flower, because the egg scrambled with the osmanthus flower after the color and shape of golden yellow is very similar, so that muxu meat is therefore named. The meat is also named after the mignonette. Old Beijing read this this muxi read up not called muxi, and read muxu, so a simplified, muxi meat and become muxu meat, of course, many recipes on the two words are also mixed with, but we all understand that the dish is one.

This dish also has muxi, also has the word wood, so it is called muxu meat.