Husband and wife lung slices have beef and beef mince (tongue, belly, heart, scalp, etc.) in them.

Sliced Lung for Husband and Wife is a traditional dish from Chengdu, Sichuan Province, belonging to the Sichuan cuisine family. Created by husband and wife Guo Zhaohua and Zhang Tianzheng, the dish is usually made with beef scalp, heart, tongue, tripe, and beef as the main ingredients, brined, and then sliced. Then with chili oil, pepper and other accessories made of red oil poured on top. The production of fine, beautiful color, tender and fresh, spicy and fragrant, very palatable.September 10, 2018, "Chinese cuisine" was officially released, husband and wife lung slices were named "Chinese cuisine" Sichuan top 10 classic dishes.

Legendary allusion to husband and wife lung slices:

Legend has it that, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were many vendors picking burdens and carrying baskets on the streets and alleys of Chengdu to hawk cold sliced lungs. With low-cost cattle scraps edges, after cleaning, brining slices, accompanied by soy sauce, red oil, chili peppers, pepper, sesame noodles, etc. Mixed food, chic flavor, inexpensive and delicious, especially by the pulling of the yellow cart, footmen and poor students like to eat.

Husband and wife lung slices development history:

In the 1930s, Chengdu Guo Zhaohua and his wife, Zhang Tianzheng, together with the production and sale of cold slices of lungs for the industry, the husband and wife personally operated, walking the streets and alleys, carrying baskets to sell. Because they used the trimmings from the beef store as ingredients, they were cheap, tasty and popular. Later, they realized that the taste of beef lung was not good, so they canceled it.

In 1933, Mr. and Mrs. Guo set up a store near Chengdu's Halfway Bridge (to the right of the back door of People's Park today), and the name of the store was formally changed to "Husband and Wife's Lung Slices," with a plaque in gold letters on a black background, inscribed by calligrapher Zhao Yunyu. After a few changes, the store moved to the downtown street of Tidu West Street, expanding the scale of operations, adding beef noodles and other varieties, customers can not only taste the lungs, there are noodles to fill their hunger.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, during the period of public-private partnership, the Guo's husband and wife's sliced lungs store, like other traditional food and beverage stores, was incorporated into the state-run units. Later, through the efforts of several generations, the husband and wife lung slices have become famous cooked food takeaway store products.

Introduction of Chengdu, Sichuan Province:

Chengdu, abbreviated as Rong, also known as Rongcheng and Jincheng, is the capital of Sichuan Province, the only sub-provincial city in the southwest region, a megacity, a major national high-tech industrial base, a commerce and logistics center and a comprehensive transportation hub, and an important central city in the western region.In 2017, the city was under the jurisdiction of 20 districts (cities) and counties and high-tech zones, Tianfu New Area Chengdu Directly Administered Area, with an area of 14,600 square kilometers, a resident population of 16,045,000 people (as of 2017), a GDP of more than 1,388,939,000,000 Yuan (as of 2017), and an urbanization rate of 71.9%.

Chengdu is located in the western part of the Sichuan Basin and the hinterland of the Chengdu Plain, with flat terrain, extensive river networks, abundant produce, developed agriculture, and a humid subtropical monsoon climate, and has enjoyed the reputation of "The Land of Heaven" since ancient times; it is China's fourth-largest aviation hub, with the largest number of inland consular offices; and it is a globally important electronic information industry base, with a national level consular office and a national level consulate. electronic information industry base, there are 30 state-level scientific research institutions, 67 state-level R&D platforms, 56 colleges and universities, and about 3.89 million talents of various types (as of 2017); the number of Fortune 500 companies reached 281 (as of 2017).

In January 2019, Chengdu was selected as one of the "2018 WFBA Top 200 Characteristic and Attractive Cities in the World" list. In the same month, Chengdu was selected as one of the "2018 WFBA Top 50 Cities with the Most Investment Potential in China".

At the end of 2017, Chengdu had a resident population of 16.045 million, an increase of 0.8% over the previous year. The city's urbanization rate reached 71.9%. The city's household population at the end of the year was 14.353 million, of which 8.512 million were urban and 5.841 million were rural. Twelve new policies for talents have been introduced, and more than 110,000 young talents with full-time undergraduate degrees or above have settled in the city. Chengdu is a city with a multi-ethnic diaspora, with 54 ethnic minority components within its borders in addition to the Han Chinese. According to the Fifth Census, the ethnic minority population in Chengdu is 60,538, and there are also a large number of temporary and mobile ethnic minority compatriots. There are ten ethnic groups, including Hui, Tibetans, Manchus, Mongols, Miao, Yi, Tujia, Qiang, Zhuang, and Koreans, with a population of more than 1,000. According to the sixth census, the city's resident population is 139,206,886 Han Chinese, accounting for 99.1 percent, and the population of various ethnic minorities is 126,939, accounting for 0.9 percent.

Chengdu is located in the crossroads of the transition from the Northwest Sichuan Plateau to the Sichuan Basin, and has its own unique climatic resources.

First, the climate is different between the east and west parts. Due to the east and west of Chengdu city height disparity, heat with the sharp increase in altitude and sharp decrease, so the emergence of the east warm and west cool two types of climate coexistence pattern, and, in the western basin around the mountains, the mountain mountain at the same time the temperature can be a difference of several degrees, and even from the bottom up to show a variety of climatic types such as warm temperate, temperate, cold temperate, frigid, frigid, and so on. This vertical change of heat, for the development of agriculture in Chengdu City, especially the development of a variety of business has created very favorable conditions.

The second is a wet and cold winter, early spring, longer frost-free period, four distinct seasons and abundant heat. The average annual temperature is around 16°C, and the average annual active cumulative temperature of ≥10°C is 4,700-5,300°C. The annual frost-free period is 278 days, with the first frost generally occurring at the end of November, and the final frost generally occurring in the second half of February, and the average temperature of the coldest month of the winter (January) is around 5°C, with the lowest temperature below 0°C occurring centrally in mid- to late-December and the first half of January, and to a lesser extent in the In mid- to late January, the average temperature is 1 to 2°C higher than that of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River at the same latitude, and spring begins half a month earlier.

Thirdly, there is less rain in winter and spring, more rain in summer and fall, and abundant rainfall, with an average annual precipitation of 900 to 1,300 millimeters, and there is not much inter-annual variation in precipitation, with the ratio of the maximum annual precipitation to the minimum annual precipitation being about 2:1. Fourth, light, heat and water are basically in the same season, and the combination of climate resources is reasonable, which is very favorable for biological reproduction. Fifth, the wind speed is small, the vast plains and hilly areas of the wind speed of 1 to 1.5 m / s; few sunny days, the sunshine rate of 24 to 32% of the range, the average annual sunshine hours of 1042 to 1412 hours, the average annual total solar radiation of 83.0 to 94.9 km / cm2.

The extreme minimum temperature in Chengdu is -5.9℃, which occurs in most districts and counties in December and a few in January. Chengdu is in the mid-subtropical humid monsoon climate zone, Chengdu City, the most perennial wind direction is the quiet wind; the second most wind direction: June, July, August for the north wind, the rest of the months for the north-northeast wind.