1. According to legend, Dongpo meat was invented by Su Dongpo.
According to a more real legend, Su Dongpo was appointed as the Zhizhou of Hangzhou. It was May and June, and the water in Taihu Lake in Hangzhou flooded farmers' crops in a large area. Su Dongpo took effective measures as early as possible to reduce farmers' losses. Help the people of Hangzhou through this most difficult period.
2. The place where Dongpo meat was invented
Farmers in Hangzhou heard that he liked to eat pork when he was in Xuzhou and Huangzhou, so they sent pork to thank him. When Su Dongpo received the meat, he thought of the practice of meat in Meishan, his hometown, and ordered people to cut the meat into squares, then burn it red and return it to these people. After eating it, everyone thought it was delicious, fat but not greasy, soft and delicious. In order to thank Su Dongpo, everyone called it Dongpo Meat.
Before Su Dongpo became a well-known person in Hangzhou, he once made a well-known person in Xuzhou, in order to solve the phenomenon that there are a lot of local pork but no one eats it. The first attempt was to stew the meat and distribute it to those people. At that time, it was not called Dongpo meat.
3. The origin of Dongpo meat's name.
It was not until later that Su Dongpo was demoted to Huangzhou to be Ying Yong's assistant that he was called Dongpo layman because of his own land reclamation. He wrote a poem about eating pork about his experience of cooking braised pork in Huangzhou. This makes braised pork have Dongpo's name.
In fact, the most common name of Dongpo meat is braised pork. In fact, Dongpo meat in different places is different. However, the most important thing is the delicacy of the pork belly, which makes the pork belly red without soy sauce. Dongpo pork is really a very delicious dish.