In terms of cultural orientation, Jian Xiao clearly divided the development of wrapped chicken culture into three periods.
The first period: Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China.
The first period is the period of creation and perfection, from Wuzhou in the Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China, represented by chefs from Huancuilou in the same garden at the foot of Beishan Mountain in Wuzhou.
The second period: 1980s to the beginning of 20th century.
In the second period, from the 1980s to the early 20th century, represented by Mr. Chen Beishui, a famous chef from five continents, paper-covered chicken became famous in Beijing and won the reputation of "one of the best in China", that is, the development period.
The third issue: 20 12 till now.
The third issue is from 20 12 to now, represented by Lin, a famous figure in Wuzhou food industry. The remarkable feature of this period is that the cultural connotation and production skills of paper-wrapped chicken have maintained the characteristics of dynamic change and innovative development trend with the development of the times. In 20 12, Lin pioneered the fresh-keeping portable packaging of McKinley's paper-wrapped chicken, which broke the geographical restriction that "food in Wuzhou" must be "food in Wuzhou" in the previous food category, and made Wuzhou specialty paper-wrapped chicken handed down from 150 develop into a "trustworthy letter" in food, leading the tide of Wuzhou local food culture into a brand-new industrial development era. 20 14 Lin founded the New Guangdong West Building on the basis of "Guangxi Shouxin" fresh-keeping portable packaging McKinley paper-packed chicken, which further innovated the cooking skills of paper-packed chicken, changed the cooking method of dipping and frying paper into the cooking method of baking in sauce, and made the paper-packed chicken enter the "era of baking in sauce". At the same time, a series of foods with wrapped chicken flavor were developed, which enriched the cultural connotation, expanded the cultural extension and improved the brand value of wrapped chicken. 20 14 "Wuzhou Paper-wrapped Chicken Making Skills" was selected into Wuzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage List. The category of this project is: folk traditional skills. The declared protection unit is West Building, and the representative inheritor is Lin. This is the third period in the history of the development of paper-wrapped chicken, that is, the period of innovation.