Yi Yin, Yi Ya, Peng Zu are all ancient gods of cookery, all for the ancient culinary cause to make great contributions.

1, Peng Zu

According to legend, during the time of Emperor Yao, one of the three emperors, the Central Plains were flooded with water. As a tribal leader at that time, Emperor Yao commanded the treatment of the water. Due to the long-term concern for the safety of the tribes and the people, Emperor Yao became sick from exhaustion and became bedridden. He did not take in any water for several days, and his life was in danger.

Just at this critical moment, Peng Zu, according to his own way of health care, immediately cooked a pheasant soup. Before the soup was served, Emperor Yao smelled the aroma from afar, turned over and jumped up to eat it, and then drank it all, and he looked radiant the next day. Since then, Yao Emperor must eat this chicken soup every day, although the day-to-day management, but no disease. The story was passed down to the next generation.

After that, Yao gave him the city of Peng, which is why he was called Pengzu in later times. Peng Zu's "way of pheasant soup" gradually developed into "the way of cooking", and pheasant soup is the earliest recorded famous food in China's canonical books, known as "the world's first soup".

China's culinary history of 9 said Peng Zu "is China's first famous professional chef", and is "the longest-lived chef", and is still honored as the grandmaster of the cooking industry.

2, Yi Yin

Documentation of Yi Yin's cooking practice is not much, only that he went to see the Shang Tang cooked a swan soup (swan soup) is very popular. But judging from what Yi Yin said about soup and its flavor in Lüshi Chunqiu (The Spring and Autumn Annals of Lu Shi), his culinary theory is absolutely first-rate.

Iyin was unique in his cooking techniques and his culinary theories. Cooking is just one of the many skills of Yi Yin. Yi Yin is the saint of Chinese cooking. Now in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore and other places of Chinese culinary counterparts are also by Yi Yin as China's "Kitchen Sage", "cooking of the saint".

3, YiYa

YiYa is the first use of the harmony of the operation of the cooking kitchen, good seasoning, very good at cooking. Because he was a chef by birth, cooking skills are very high, he was the first to open a private dining room, so he was called by the chefs as the ancestor.

On one occasion, Duke Huan said to Yi Ya, "I have tasted all the delicacies of the world, but I have not eaten human flesh, which is a pity." Huan Gong's words were thoughtless jokes, but Yi Ya took this to heart, and was determined to show off his skills, so as to win Huan Gong's favor. The king of the country was so honorable that he could never eat the flesh of a death row prisoner or a commoner. Later he saw his 4-year-old son and chose to use his own son's meat.

Duke Huan, at one of his lunches, drank a small golden pot of tender, never-tasted-before broth, and asked Yi Ya, "What kind of meat is this?" Yi Ya cried and said it was his son's meat, in order to pray for the king's physical well-being and safety, killed his son to offer the Lord. When Duke Huan learned that it was the meat of Yi Ya's son, he was very uncomfortable in his heart, but was touched by Yi Ya's behavior of killing his son for his own food, and thought that Yi Ya loved him more than his own flesh and blood, and from then on, Duke Huan favored Yi Ya.

Expanded

Besides these three, there are two other folk god of the kitchen, one is Emperor Xuan of Han Dynasty, known as the "God of the Baker", the pastry industry must be honored. Han Xuan Di name Liu Xun, Western Han Emperor, 74-49 BC reign, for the great-grandson of Liu Che, Han Emperor Wu Di, "witchcraft rebellion", Liu Xun incognito fled to the folk.

The Book of Han. Emperor Xuan Di records that the emperor was young because of the witchcraft disaster, "after growing up, like to roam, traveled around Guanzhong." At that time, Liu Xun will not make cakes, just in distress, like to eat cakes, often go to the cake store to buy cakes, the cake store business is particularly prosperous, even his own sense of wonder. Emperor Zhaodi died, he was General Huo Guang, when the emperor, the Guanzhong kitchen even worship him as the ancestor. After the "painting skills" in the name of the ancestor of the Divine Horse, the cake store will use his Divine Horse.

Song Cai taping "Tiewei Mountain Series" Volume 6: "Han Xuan Di in the oblique micro, there is a difference in the sale of cakes, seen in the" Han Shu . Xuan Di Ji". So far where a thousand years old, and Guanzhong cake master, every picture of Emperor Xuan Di like in the restaurant, today is almost customary."

The other, the legendary King Zhan, is said to be the royal chef of Emperor Wen of Sui. Once, Emperor Wen asked King Zhan what was the best thing to eat, and he answered salt. Sui Wendi then killed him for the crime of teasing the king. After that, the royal chefs were so scared that they didn't dare to put salt in their dishes, and Emperor Wen of Sui woke up to the fact that he had no taste in his food, so he named Chef Zhan as King Zhan.

The kitchen industry will be Zhan Wang as the ancestor, honored as "Zhan Wang Da Di". According to another story, this King Zhan was a vagrant named Zhan Mouse, not a royal chef at all. Sui Wendi because the food is not good to kill a lot of cooks, so no one dares to cook, had to open the list of recruitment, Zhan rat mistakenly revealed the royal list was called into the palace.

Sui-Wen Di asked him: "What is the most delicious" he said: "hungry" is the most delicious. Subsequently led the Sui emperor out of the city to find "hungry", and so Sui emperor really hungry, took out the onion cake to the Sui emperor to eat, the emperor realized that only hungry rice is delicious, and then sealed Zhan rat for Zhan Wang. Later, it was customary for people to worship this King Zhan. State Rongzhou "meal with the allusion" cloud: Sichuan chefs worship "chef Bodhisattva" - Zhan Wang, the seventh day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, there is a Zhan Wang temple fair.

According to "Cai Feng Lu" records, every year on the thirteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, held a "Zhan Wang will", to honor the forty-eight days, during which the sale of food, but also chef apprenticeships and masters of thank you day.

Different times, different regions, the kitchen industry believes in the ancestors are not consistent. There are also Lei Zu Da Di, Guan Gong, Zhu Geliang and Mei Weng who have all been ancestors of the cooking industry.

References:

Baidu Wikipedia-Iyin<

Baidu Encyclopedia - Yi Ya