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Is it called chicken or chicken?
There is a famous dish in Peking cuisine with an interesting name, called "Barking Chicken" or "Fortune Chicken". There is a reason for naming this dish with very different words. "Barking chicken" originally from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, is a number of poor refugees that is, "Barking" or steal or beg for the chicken, after burning hot soil cooked and become, this is not a harmless street food. Back then, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty visited the south of the Yangtze River, accidentally got tattered clothes on the street. A beggar head to see his pity, they think that the food "beggar chicken" to give him to eat. Qianlong sleepy and hungry, think this chicken is exceptionally tasty, then asked its name. The head of the holler is embarrassed to say that the chicken is called "holler chicken", then blabbered that it is called "rich chicken". After hearing this, Qianlong praised the chicken as delicious. Afterwards, we realized that the ragged clothes of the homeless man is actually the current emperor, "called chicken" also because of the emperor's praise as a famous dish.