Peking Duck is a famous food in Beijing, which attracts a large number of diners with its red color, tender meat, mellow taste and fat but not greasy. There are roughly five stories about the historical origin of Peking duck.
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One is the Hangzhou saying, also called the Yuan Dynasty saying.
When the Southern Song Dynasty was in full swing, there were many restaurants in Lin'an and the food industry was well developed. Zhejiang is a famous water town, producing good duck. To fire roasted, it will become roasted duck. At that time, it was already a famous delicacy in Lin'an. Yuan destroyed the Song Dynasty, Lin'an was broken, the Yuan soldiers captured Lin'an workers to the metropolis, including cooks. The sizzling duck thus settled in Beijing, and after generations of improvement and development, it became today's Peking Duck.
The second is the Nanjing said, also called the Ming Dynasty said.
Ju Ming built the capital of Nanjing, Nanjing is rich in lake ducks, the Imperial Household Restaurant will be carefully studied duck dishes, salt water duck, crispy duck, preserved duck, roast duck, sesame oil duck, are out of this. Ming Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing, the roast duck also brought to Beijing, and by the court into the people, Beijing has become a famous dish.
Third, Beijing said.
The Jin Dynasty established its capital in Beijing more than eight hundred years ago. At that time, Yandi forests and mountains, surrounded by streams and ditches, there are white ducks, meat thick, tender and fat. The female real people are good at hunting, after hunting, that is plucked and roasted food. After the palace chef to increase the roasting procedures, refined its flavor, became the original roast duck. The white duck was domesticated through the generations and evolved into the present Beijing duck. After the Beijing cooks improved the roasting method and formed a set of fixed technology, the final generation of famous delicacies. Peking duck is really a native Beijing dish.
Fourth, Xi'an said.
Zhang Ruoshi, "The Commander of the Imperial Court? Volume II" cited "Taiping Guangji" records, as early as Wu Zetian after the establishment of the Zhou regime (A.D. 69O), Wu Zetian's favorite minister Zhang Yi Zhi for the control of the crane supervisor, and his younger brother Zhang Changzong competed with the luxury. Zhang Yi Zhi with a large iron cage will be geese, ducks placed in its cage, the cage was born in the charcoal fire, with a copper basin containing five flavors of juice, geese, ducks around the fire, thirsty drink five flavors of juice, fire baked geese, ducks keep walking back and forth, and gradually the feathers fell, roasted and died, its meat is fat and tasty. Accordingly, as early as 1,300 years ago, the Tang capital Chang'an has a primitive method of roast duck.
Fifth, Kaifeng said.
People know that Kaifeng is the birthplace of authentic Yu cuisine, there are a lot of famous dishes and famous traditional snacks, but do not know that the "Bianjing Roast Duck" is China's "ancestor" of the duck, is more than a thousand years of famous! The product has a long history.
As early as in the Northern Song Dynasty, roasted chicken and duck were famous dishes in Bianjing market, which was recorded in Tokyo Dreaming Book. After the Jin soldiers broke the Bianjing city, a large number of artisans and merchants in Bianjing fled to the area of Jiankang (Nanjing) and Lin'an (Hangzhou) along with the King of Kang, and the roasted duck became a delicacy for the Southern Song Dynasty folk and officials and eunuchs. Southern Song literati Hong was in the "Yijian Ding Zhi", recorded in the famous chef who specializes in the art of roast duck roast duck Wang Li. After the Yuan destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan general Boyan brought the skills of Lin'an to Metropolis (now Beijing), so that the Bianjing's roast duck technology was spread to the present Beijing.