World noodle in China, Chinese noodle in Shanxi.

Shanxi's noodle food, but also to knife-shaved noodles is the most famous, it and with the stretching noodles, dial fish, knife dial noodles and known as the four major noodles in Shanxi, is the real king of the noodle food. Knife-shaved noodles are made with a knife, hence the name.

Knife-shaved noodles have a history of hundreds of years. Its origin dates back to the Yuan Dynasty. The Mongol army swept across the world, eyeing Taiyuan in the Yellow River Valley. In 1222 A.D., the Yuan general Mu Huali led tens of thousands of elite troops to attack Taiyuan, and the people of Taiyuan used choppers to resist the ravages of the Mongol army, which ultimately failed, and many of them were killed after the city was destroyed.

After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the rulers confiscated metal utensils from every household in order to prevent the people of Taiyuan from rebelling and uprising again. They also issued an affirmation that every ten households should have a kitchen knife, which should be used in turn for chopping and cooking, and then handed over to the Mongols for safekeeping when it was finished, which made the management very strict.

But the problem is, ten households with a kitchen knife very often after the meal can not line up, Wang old man encountered such a problem. One day at noon, Wang's wife made the dough and asked Wang to fetch the knife, not realizing that the knife had already been taken by someone else. Mr. Wang could only walk back with his head hanging down, and when he was out of the Mongolian gate, he was touched by something, which turned out to be a piece of thin iron. He picked it up and took it home.

The family was waiting for him to come back with the knife, and were disappointed to see him empty-handed. The meal always have to eat, Wang old man in a hurry, take out the iron piece said with it to cut, Wang old man's wife dumbfounded, said this how to cut, the old man said cut can not be cut on the cut. The old man said, "If you can't cut it, then cut it." These words woke up the wife. She put the dough on a wooden board, left hand up, right hand holding the iron, standing in the boiling water pot side "cut" noodles. After cooking, the wife poured brine on the surface for the old man to taste, and the old man ate and praised: taste great.

Since then, the old man did not go to get a chopper, he used this iron to chop, "chopping" the noodle way a ten, ten, a hundred, spread all over the land of Sanjin.

Today, the knife-shaved noodles have gone to the world, and the masters of the knife-shaved noodles in Shanxi have been on CCTV, participated in Daddy's place, and carried forward the culture of Shanxi knife-shaved noodles.