Lanzhou beef noodle soup is delicious, nutritious and smooth, which has great influence in the whole country and has a wide audience. 1999 is rated as one of the three key varieties of Chinese fast food by the state, so it is known as the first in the world.
On August 28th, 2006, People's Daily reported on Lanzhou Beef Noodles. The materials in which Lanzhou Beef Noodles Association participated in the selection of the top ten pasta products in China and declared the collective trademark revealed such a message: Lanzhou Lamian Noodles, known as "the best noodle in the world", originated in Bo 'ai County, Henan Province, and was brought to Lanzhou by Ma Liuqi, a Dongxiang nationality, during Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. Later generations Chen Hesheng and Ma Baozai jointly standardized it as the standard of "one clear, two white, three green, four red and Huang Wu". Who are William Chan, Chen Weilin, Chen Xiesheng and Chen Hesheng? The story will restore a period of history more than 200 years ago.
1. Qinghua Town is the traffic artery for Shanxi merchants to reach the Central Plains. This area is not only the prosperous place of Shanxi merchants, but also the economic center of eight counties in Huaiqing prefecture. There are many shops in the town and the economy is prosperous. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Chen Jiadi 1 1 Chen Keda and Chen Optics 12 began to make handcart beef and beef noodles to earn money to feed their children.
2. Chen's beef noodles are made of beef, beef liver, beef bones and chicken soup, with natural spices, vegetarian radish and Shangzhuang ginger. Car beef is made of beef, beef tendon, bonus and white salt water. Local word of mouth: "The beef in the car is delicious, and the beef soup is fragrant in all directions." It has a long-standing reputation in Huaiqing House. Chen Keda often cooks noodles for his family with cook the meat fresh soup or marinated soup in his hometown, which is very delicious. Noodles made of fresh soup are called clear soup noodles, and noodles made of marinated soup are called old soup noodles. This noodle is not only delicious, but also nutritious. Children and grandchildren were fortunate enough to eat delicious food and study with peace of mind, while Chen Jiageng read family heirlooms, which became a beautiful talk.
3. The 13th Chen Weijing (the grandson of Chen Keda and the son of Chen Optics) was gifted and fond of reading since childhood. He knows everything about astronomy and arithmetic. Chen Weijing passed the examination in Lin Sheng and was recommended as a tribute student by Huaiqing government with excellent results. He went to study in imperial academy, the capital city, and caused a sensation in the village. Because of its superb cooking skills, it is also known as the "Huaiqing Gourmet Saint".
4. In Qing Dynasty, imperial academy was the highest administrative organ of national management education and the highest institution of higher learning established by the state. It was located in Guozijian Street, Andingmen, Dongcheng District, Beijing (formerly known as Chengxian Street). Chen Weijing is an outstanding student selected by the local authorities, so he can work in imperial academy and enjoy the treatment of "paste fire rice". In addition, William Chan's family conditions are good, food and clothing are well-off, and life is relatively rich. At that time, he met his friend Ma Liuqi from Gansu, who came from a poor family. He is a native of Dongxiang, the only minority student in that year. He lives in poverty mainly by borrowing money to study. Dude looked down on him, intentionally or unintentionally alienated and avoided him. Students who make up classes are not entitled to the subsidy of food and paste from the imperial court. Ma Liuqi often eats pickles and steamed bread. William Chan once quoted four words from Tang Hanyu to describe Ma Liuqi's life: "The four-year imperial examination is long and bitter." Only I protect you, and everyone hates you. "(limulus: pickles. To this end, William Chan often helps Ma Liuqi solve the problem of food and clothing.
Chen Weijing sympathizes with this classmate, and Chen Weijing often takes care of him. Ma Liuqi was very moved, and usually likes to associate with William Chan. Seeing that he lived in poverty, Chen Weijing taught him how to make beef noodles in the car at home.
Chen Weijing called Che Beef Noodles: "The beef soup is bone and liver, the abdomen is warm, the blood is strong and the gas is weak, and all diseases are not born."
6. Born in poverty, Ma Liuqi opened the first beef noodle restaurant in Lanzhou at the corner of Gong Yuan Lane in Jincheng, Lanzhou, with the brand name "Beef Noodles in uncle horse", and then opened a beef noodle restaurant in Agan Town. Because Ma Liuqi is well-run, his business is booming, and the smell of beef noodles and peppers has become a delicacy in Jincheng. In memory of bringing Su Zhai Chen beef noodles to Lanzhou, Chen Jiuru, a descendant of Chen, brought "uncle horse beef noodles" back to Jiaozuo, the birthplace of Lanzhou beef noodles. "Uncle Majia Beef Noodles" reopened in Jiaozuo. Wang Danwang, the minister in charge of Gansu, has a saying about beef noodles: Lamian Noodles in Lanzhou is the best in the world, and the production method comes from Huaiqing House. The soup is as golden as dry noodles, and it is a fairy at the entrance. Zhang Shu, a poet and sinologist, also praised Lamian Noodles Xiang, but Ma was the only one.
7. William Chan insists on farming and studying, and is strict with her children. He cultivated their simple qualities of loving reading and labor from an early age. He has three sons, all of whom live up to expectations.
William Chan is kind and honest, and has always been a pillar of the Chen family. Cousin Chen Weikui has no children and hopes that Chen Weijing will give his eldest son Chen Wei a job. Chen is round and strong, likes to dance with swords and spears, is good at playing Taiji Eight True Boxing, and has high martial arts. He passed the martial arts exam in Huaiqing Prefecture. Chen Weilin, the third son, and Chen Weixian, the second son, like their father, like reading. Chen Weijing intends to concentrate on training. The Chen family has a little savings. Chen Weijing and the government set up a private school at home and asked Mr. Chen to teach. Children are sometimes very playful, but Chen Weijing doesn't like them at all, and asks Mr. Chen to be strict in education.
Chen Weilin failed his father's upbringing. During the Jiaqing period, he also passed the examination in Gong Sheng and was recommended by the government as imperial academy Taifu with excellent results. Chen Weixian later became famous and became an official. It is a much-told story that two generations of imperial academy Taifu became famous in the countryside.
9. During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, Tongzhi rebellion broke out in Gansu, and Han and Hui people killed each other. The war lasted for more than ten years. After a calm, beef noodles were lost in Lanzhou. During Guangxu period, Chen Weijing was invited by friends in Lanzhou to send his son Chen Weilin and grandson Chen Hesheng to Lanzhou to standardize the cooking skills of beef noodles, and paid a visit to the head of Wuquan Academy, a friend. In order to keep in mind the formula of beef noodle seasoning, Chen Weijing cleverly embedded 23 kinds of beef noodle seasoning in the form of family letters, and invited his children and grandchildren to go home safely and pass it on from generation to generation. Chen Weijing passed on the cooking skills of beef noodles to Ma Liuqi, a friend of Dongxiang nationality, which is also a model of national unity in Chinese history. Therefore, the history of Lanzhou beef noodles is a great fusion of different regions, cultures, ideas and nationalities of the Chinese nation, and it is the most proud part of Chinese civilization.
10, the inheritance of beef noodles by Chen's three generations was passed down as a beautiful talk by Lanzhou. Later, in order to keep this story in history forever, the mountain chief of Wuquan Academy personally wrote: "Lanzhou beef noodles were brought to Lanzhou by Ma Liuqi, a Dongxiang nationality, from Chen Weijing, a Qinghua person in Huaiqing Prefecture, during Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. Later generations of Chen Hesheng and Ma Baozai standardized the standard of beef noodles with a clear white, three green and four red Huang Wu. This is the official record of Lanzhou. Lanzhou beef noodles have become more and more famous through the efforts of the Chen family for two generations.
Chen Hesheng died young. His brother, Chen Xiesheng (1862- 1936), inherited the tradition of his ancestors, and was highly respected and kind to others all his life. He used to be a village manager and a local water official, often coordinating disputes between neighboring villagers about water use, land boundaries and roads. Chen Xiesheng organized villagers many times and took the lead in donating money to build roads and temples. There are many inscriptions and records of embedded rods in the Jade Emperor Temple. Chen Xiesheng has many good deeds in his hometown. He not only often invites the old people, pregnant women and parturients in the same village to eat beef noodles and beef soup to nourish his body, but also often buys delicious food for the children of his neighbors. On holidays or gather vendors to sell beef balls, fried bean jelly, oil tea and so on. Children will surround him and eat as much as they want, and then he will pay the bill together. He is happy, too. The Qing government awarded him the title of "Six Products". "Living in the field is beautiful, farming is diligent, thinking about the field is true, and harvesting the field is good." These are the four words that William Chan left for the younger generation.
The character pursued by the Chen family from generation to generation is loyalty and righteousness: being kind to others, although the blessing has not arrived, the disaster is far away. Chen Xie-sheng, the 15th Chen, asked later generations: "Be upright, quiet, kind, dream stable, kind, bodhi, and learn from ghosts and gods. At the thought of kindness, everything is fine; The kindness of one heart celebrates everything; Be compassionate and be kind to others. "
12, the eldest son Chen (Ziyang Town 1882- 1943), studied in Henan University during the Republic of China, and served as the director of Pingxiang, Jiangxi and Zhoukou, Henan. Although he was an official, he was indifferent to fame and fortune all his life, cultivated himself and cultivated his character, and repeatedly educated future generations to be kind to others and help others with morality. He also warned his children "money, housing and harmony"
13, Chen Zizi, Chen Wantong 19 17 ~ 1997 (recorded in Bo 'ai County) 1938 In order to avoid the Japanese invaders, he graduated from the Medical Department of Gansu University (now Lanzhou University) and became a doctor. After liberation, he served as the stationmaster of Gansu Provincial Health and Epidemic Prevention Station until his retirement. Chen Wantong is a famous gourmet in Gansu medical and health field, and once presided over the formulation of the hygienic standard for Lanzhou beef noodles. He inherited the beef noodles and private kitchens of his predecessors, and often invited colleagues from Lanzhou Science, Education, Culture and Health System to taste delicious food at home.
14 and Chen Wantong's four sons work in Lanzhou and Xinjiang respectively. The youngest son, Chen Jiuru, is a retired engineer and electronic expert of Lanzhou Association for Science and Technology. He used to be the president of Gansu Electronic Musical Instrument Society and the secretary-general of Lanzhou Electronic Society, and now he is the executive director of China Traditional Culture Research Association. Influenced by my parents since childhood, I have a good inheritance of beef noodles and Chen's private kitchens. I have inherited nearly 100 kinds of sauce and marinade products from Chen's various beef noodles and private kitchens, and the secrets of frying, frying, boiling and frying.
15, 20 14 Qinyuanchun Hotel explored the origin of beef noodles, which was strongly supported by Henan Business Daily, Jiaozuo Daily, Jiaozuo Evening News and other news media, which triggered a national discussion on the birthplace of Lanzhou beef noodles, attracted Mr. Chen Jiuru to return to his hometown to attend the seminar on the birthplace of Lanzhou beef noodles, and announced the secret recipe of broth mixing for cooking beef noodles.
16, Mr. Chen Jiuru is very grateful to Jiaozuo catering industry association and hometown people for digging up Chen's family history, which not only contributes to the family secret recipe, but also strives for perfection and is meticulous. With his traditional cooking skills, he created a clear soup beef noodles with mellow flavor and rich nutrition, and named it "Suzhai Chenjia Beef Noodles", which made the people in his hometown happily enjoy the traditional delicacies more than 200 years ago. Two hundred years ago, Chen XIII Chen Weijing gave this bowl of noodles to Lanzhou people for free, which became a much-told story. Two hundred years later, Mr. Chen Jiuru, a descendant of Chen, brought this bowl of noodles back to the people in his hometown, which made a great contribution to the traditional food culture of fraternity. Chen Guren's selfless love is as affectionate, earth-shattering and famous as beef noodles.