Huamachi in Ming Dynasty is the focus of northwest defense. In order to prevent the invasion of the northern Tatars, the Ming Dynasty built the Great Wall in the north, built a city every 60 miles and built a fort every 30 miles on the Great Wall, and sent troops from all over the country to station here. The imperial court also sent the Minister of War to Huamachi as the governor of the trilateral area to organize and coordinate the defense of the entire northwest frontier defense.
During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Yiqing, a minister of the Ministry of War, served as the governor of the trilateral area. Yang Yiqing was originally from Yunnan, and later his family moved to Dantu County, Jiangsu Province. Yang Yiqing moved his family here when he was governor of the Trilateral Region. On the one hand, Huamachi is located in a remote place, and it takes several months to return to Beijing from here. At that time, officials went out on business and took their families as long as conditions allowed. Second, Yang Yiqing is a hawk. He took his family to the front and showed his determination to resist the enemy. But when Yang Yiqing and his family came to Huamachi, they found that the first problem was that they were not used to life. People in Jiangsu seldom eat beef and mutton, but there are large pieces of mutton here.
Yang Yiqing has been wandering for many years, and she can still eat it, but her wife is worried when she eats it, especially the mutton with incomplete seasoning, which makes it even more difficult for her to enjoy. At that time, Yang Yiqing's wife brought some sea cucumbers, squid, dried fish and quail eggs from her hometown. I was reluctant to eat at home until the Spring Festival. I took these things out and stewed them together. Yang Yiqing hasn't eaten these foods for many years. I didn't expect his careful wife to cook him a hometown meal when he was far away from home. He ate it again and again.
A few years later, Liu Jin, a traitor, put Yang Yiqing into a prison, and Yang Yiqing was reinstated in Ningxia, designing to bring down Liu Jin. After bringing down Liu Jin, he was particularly happy. This time, he sent soldiers back to his hometown and brought a lot of squid, kelp, sea cucumber, quail eggs and related condiments. He wanted to entertain these Jiangsu and Zhejiang officers and men guarding the border with hometown dishes. The chef stewed squid, quail eggs and vegetables together according to the method taught by Yang Yiqing's wife.
Those Jiangsu and Zhejiang officers can eat hometown food thousands of miles away, so they applaud again and again. And some officers in the northwest, eating this unique dish in a rare way, feel particularly delicious. In the process of eating, someone asked the chef what the name of this dish was, and the chef stood there with his mouth open and couldn't say it. Yang Yiqing looked at it, thought for a moment and said, this dish is mainly composed of squid, quail eggs and vegetables from Huamachai. Let's call it Hua Ma Chi San Xian. ? Since then, Huamachi Sanxian has become a famous local dish in Yanchi.
Later, this dish spread from the border troops to the local area, from Yanchi in Ningxia to the Great Wall in Yulin, Shaanxi, and many people could cook it. This dish was specially written in the chronicle of Dingbian County in the Qing Dynasty.