The birthplace of Huaiyang cuisine is Huai'an. Huaiyang cuisine has the word "Huai" in the front (including Huai'an, Huaiyin, Qingjiangpu, etc.) and the word "Yang" in the back.

Huaian has a wide variety of cuisines, with thousands of dishes. Among Yangzhou dishes, only steamed buns, egg fried rice and other pasta-type foods are from Yangzhou? Note: they are pasta, not vegetables. What other dishes are there in Yangzhou? This shows that Huai'an cuisine has a huge weight and influence in Huaiyang cuisine, far exceeding that of Yangzhou cuisine.

In fact, history has already reached its conclusion. Why is it called Huaiyang cuisine? Instead of Yanghuai cuisine?

The Huai salt industry is highly developed. Not to mention salt merchants, without Huai'an salt produced in Huai'an, where would those so-called salt merchants come from? Huai'an is a major salt production base in the country (human edible salt), accounting for half of the country. "When Huai salt comes out, the world is salty". Even today, Huai'an's Huai brand salt occupies one-third of the country's place. You still have nothing to do with Yangzhou today. Salt merchant?

Government officials gathered. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the local management agencies of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal directly under the central government, the Governor of Water Transport and the Governor of River Channels, were all set up offices in Huai'an (a large number of offices are now preserved in Huai'an City). The Minister of the Ministry of War or the Yushi of the Du Cha Yuan Youdu have jurisdiction over the administrative affairs of the eight provinces of Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Hubei, and Hunan.

Turn in taxes and get rich. Since ancient times, Huai'an Prefecture has been one of the four major cities in the world. It is as famous as Suzhou and Hangzhou. Its prosperity is not inferior to any other city. Every year, it turns over 107,000 tons of silver to the court, while Yangzhou only turns over 9,000 tons. Yangzhou pays 10,000 tons less. , enough to witness Huai'an's economic development and prosperity and its influence across the country.

The literati gathered. Literati and refined scholars gathered in Huai'an. Two of China's four famous masterpieces, including "Journey to the West" and "Water Margin", were produced in Huai'an.

Folks and martyrs gathered. China's largest non-governmental organizations, Cao Gang and Salt Gang (later moved to Shanghai's China Youth Gang), which have been recorded in history and have great influence, are the salt transportation and water transportation that originated in Huai'an. There is a reason why Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River many times.

A large number of high-level government agencies and officials are stationed in Huai'an. Salt traders from all over the country come to Huai'an to purchase, sell and sell edible Huai salt. This has gathered a large number of literati, government officials, industrial workers and traders, creating a huge demand group. It tells the birth and prosperity of Huaiyang cuisine in Huai'an.

There is also Huaiyang Road in Huai'an. From 1914 to 1927, Huai'an (today's Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province) was governed under the jurisdiction of the entire Yangzhou Prefecture and the central and southern parts of Huai'an Prefecture in the late Qing Dynasty. Huaiyang Road belongs to Jiangsu Province and governs thirteen counties: Jiangdu, Yizheng, Dongtai, Xinghua, Yancheng, Funing, Yangzhou, Huai'an, Huaiyin, Taizhou, Taixian, Gaoyou and Baoying.