When it comes to ants climbing the tree, many people may know its name, not only because the name of this dish is interesting, but also because it tastes delicious, very delicious! So, do you know how the dish "ants in the tree" got its name, and what are the allusions? Let's find out today! It is said that this ant is related to a famous person in history, that is, Dou E!

The history of the famous dish "ants on the tree" will help you understand the origin of the ants on the tree! According to legend, the father of sinus is a scholar, sold to the family's debtor Cai as a child bride.

Unexpectedly, Dou's husband died of illness, Dou suddenly became a widow, and his mother-in-law was old and very sick, because her son died even more! She was bedridden and just couldn't get up!

Now this is hard for Dou E, who takes care of her mother-in-law and her daily meals, but as her mother-in-law's condition worsens, her family's money gradually runs out!

One day, the family ran out of money. Looking at her sick mother-in-law, Dou E wanted to improve her mother-in-law's diet. She wanted to credit a piece of meat from Wang Butcher on the street, but he refused to give it to her on credit because the money she owed her before hadn't been paid back twice, so it wouldn't count if she gave it on credit again. Giving her face to the Butcher King at the door of the butcher store, the Butcher King could not bear the constraint, so he cut her a small piece of pork.

Doe took the small piece of pork and made a worried face. What can such a small piece of meat do? Suddenly I remembered the vermicelli hidden under my counter. In a flash of inspiration, I came back home. The doodle first soaked the vermicelli in water, then cut this small piece of meat into minced meat, put it into the oil, added onion, ginger and garlic to the skillet, sauteed the minced meat, added the vermicelli and added chili noodles, cayenne pepper and other seasonings. After a while, up came a strip of fried vermicelli! Before she even entered the main house, her mother-in-law smelled the aroma and hurriedly asked Dou E what she had cooked today. Dou E asked her mother-in-law to try it. She tasted it and couldn't help but praise it, even boasting that it was delicious! But then I looked at the minced meat in the vermicelli and asked Dou E what was in the vermicelli and why did it look so much like ants?

So Dou E told the story, and then my mother-in-law laughed out loud and said, "This minced meat looks like ants, and the fan looks like a twig. Why don't you call this dish ants on a tree?

And so a classic food, ants on a tree, was born! Friends, now do you know where this dish came from?