The origin of Fengyang tofu dishes
From Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown Fengyang County, Anhui Province. According to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was young and poor. At the age of seventeen, he became a monk in Yuli County (later changed to Fengyang) and Huangsi (later changed to Temple). Because of discipline and years of famine, he was evacuated from the temple by the abbot and lived a begging life. One day, he came to the door of a chef named Huang, twenty miles southwest of Zhong. Seeing that the young monk was ragged, scrawny and pitied, the chef gave him a piece of "stuffed tofu" that had just come out of the pot. Zhu Yuanzhang was hungry and cold. I will never forget this delicious food. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne in Nanjing and became emperor. He often thought of "making tofu" as a gift to make the chef cook like a law, but he couldn't. So it was decreed that Chef Huang was sent to Beijing by special decree, and he was named as the "Imperial Chef" and made a special contribution to "making tofu". Since then, "making tofu" has become an indispensable dish in Qionglin's banquet, which is famous all over the world. The13rd generation grandson of the Huang family still lives in Fengyang, and the famous dish "stuffed tofu" has become a local must.