Personally, I think that the origin of the bridge rice noodles was in Jianshui next to Mengzi, not Mengzi Jianshui's origin is well-documented, with names, surnames, specific years, the person who created it, and even the practice of the study, while Mengzi's origin of the scholar's name will be Yang, and then the name of the lied to deceive people, and the history of Mengzi since there has not been a scholar

Jianshui Bridge Rice Noodles originated in the east of Jianshui County, the city of Jianshui County.

Jianshui Bridge Rice Noodles originated in Jianshui County, east of the city, west of the Locked Dragon Bridge in the street of the chicken market, with Jianshui's specialties of grass sprouts, ground pepper as ingredients, the flavor is unique and known far and wide.

During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a chef named Liu Jiaqing in Taishi Lane outside the east city of Jianshui, who opened a rice noodle house named "Baoxinglou" in the street of the chicken market. Xianfeng Jinyin year (1854) early one morning, an elegant demeanor, well-dressed people came to his pavilion to eat rice noodles. He told Liu Jiaqing to make soup with rice noodles according to the method he introduced. The method is: take a piece of raw pork spine cut into thin slices, with a small powder water kneaded in a large bowl, scoop a spoonful of cooked lard on the pork spine thinly sliced and covered with a number of slices of pepper leaves, and then scooped a large spoonful of scalding hot grass sprouts blanch into the bowl of fresh meat soup, and another bowl with a bowl of rice noodles. Shopkeepers do this, the customer first chopsticks in the soup stirred for a moment, and then pick the rice noodles into the soup bowl to eat. This person's name is Li Jingchun, Jianshui Xinqiao Street people, the Qing Daoguang Yiwei (1835) scholar, for many years in the provinces as an official, after returning to his hometown, he imitated the provinces, "shabu-shabu" eating method, try a small powder water kneaded thin slices of meat blanch soup to eat, and its flavor is exceptionally delicious.

Liu Jiaqing was curious about his eating method and asked, "What is your eating method called?" Li Jingchun replied, "I came from the east of the bridge (Locklong Bridge) to the west of the bridge to eat rice noodles; when people cross the bridge, the rice noodles also cross the bridge, and I am eating the rice noodles that cross the bridge."

Subsequently, Liu Jiaqing used Li Jingchun introduced the method of cooking blanch broth with rice noodles to sell, and Li Jingchun said "over the bridge" to name, "over the bridge rice noodles" name thus. Liu's operation of the bridge rice line to Liu Shiqing inherited four generations, has been the use of "bridge" name. After that, in Jianshui business "bridge rice noodles" more people, there are two main ways of operation: one is the soup and rice uniformly prepared by the operator, prepare two bowls, a soup, a Sheng rice noodles, customers buy, use chopsticks to stir blanching broth and then put a few moments to pick the rice noodles into the bowl of soup shabu shabu eaten. Another is the pavilion is located in the vicinity of the squeeze rice workshop, the pavilion specializing in blanching soup, customers will buy the soup, lifted to the table, and to the kitchen table to take a small bucket to go to the rice workshop at the stone jar to buy rice, sellers will be caught from the stone jar of rice into a small bucket, customers will be rice line after drying out the control of the water, the rice line lifted to the table to steak in the bowl of soup soup shabu-shabu ate up. This form of business is more common, almost in the city outside the press of rice noodles near the workshop are specializing in blanching broth of the pavilion or stalls.

From the Qing Dynasty Tongzhi, since the Guangxu years, the name of the bridge rice noodle soup is also up, called different ways. Mainly "heron lift fish", that is, with grass sprouts cooked pork, chicken, duck broth blanch with a small powder water kneaded thin slices of raw pork spine. Floating in the soup on the grass sprouts metaphorical "heron", falling in the soup under the meat metaphorical "fish"; "Ivory grilled pig's feet," that is, cooked with grass sprouts blanching of pork, chicken, duck broth processed grilled pig's feet Lean pork strips. "Ivory" that is, grass sprouts, castor seed sprouts have "ivory dishes" known as; "double phoenix fighting nest", that is, chicken, duck two kinds of meat cooked out of high-temperature broth blanch kneaded with a small powder water raw pork spine Thinly sliced. Chicken and duck is likened to "double phoenix", the broth is likened to "nest"; "Qiaofeng play dolphin", also known as "Qiaofeng accompanied by dolphin", that is, cooked with pork and chicken. That is, cooked with pork and chicken blanch pork soup, pork spine meat slices. Dolphin refers to pigs. "Chicken" is a metaphor for "clever phoenix"; "lion rolling embroidered ball", in the bowl of pork spine thin slices of pork on a number of such as cinnamon large crispy meat balls, and then scoop high-temperature blanch into the bowl of broth, crispy meat balls in the soup Rolling in the soup, "hydrangea", crispy meat ball also; "Four Seasons", first in the soup bowl into the cooked pork, chicken, duck, fish (remove bone spurs) four kinds of meat pieces or slices of meat on top of the appropriate amount of leeks or pea shoots, and then ladle scalding high-temperature broth blanch into the bowl, the leeks floating on the surface of the soup, the leeks or peas, and then blanch into the bowl. Floating on the surface of the soup leeks or pea shoots a green, symbolizing the "evergreen", four kinds of meat symbolizes the "four seasons"; "beauty of the phoenix to return to the nest", put the appropriate amount of steamer chicken and soup in the above broth The chicken in the hot pot is the "beautiful phoenix", and the broth in the bowl is the "nest" where the "beautiful phoenix" returns to; "Wulong Running to the Sea ", also known as" Wulong drill grasshopper grass ", that is, with pig, chicken, duck broth blanch Wulong thin slices, for the top of the soup of the bridge rice noodles. "Wulong" that is, the fish, "sea" that is, broth, "grasshopper grass" that is, mint, peppercorns and other ingredients; "yellow dragon play pearl ", that is, with eel slices, green peas as the main ingredient cooked out of the overcooked rice noodle soup; "white head", that is, with winter melon, soybean sprouts, tofu skin, deep-fried or pan-fried tofu slices or shreds, with sesame oil as the main ingredient cooked out of the overcooked rice noodle soup, which is a Buddhist believer's vegetarian delicacy. This kind of soup is only sold during the period of abstinence from slaughter, such as begging for rain, and when the county organizes large-scale religious activities.

Since the Guangxu period, Jianshui also appeared to cook dishes with rice noodles sold in the pavilion. Interestingly, in the fall, winter and spring with a plate of fried cooked lotus root dipped in condiments to eat over the bridge rice noodles known as eating "over seventeen holes in the bridge rice noodles"; with a plate of fried eggs to eat called "welcome to the wealth" over the bridge rice noodles, the egg white metaphor for the "silver", the egg white is the "silver", the "silver", the egg white is the "silver", the egg white is the "silver", the egg white is the "silver", the egg white is the "silver", the egg white is the "silver". "Silver", the yolk of the egg as a metaphor for "gold", mostly after the Spring Festival to leave home to do business abroad or to the old dry mine people to buy food. Number of people eating bridge rice noodles can ask the chef to customize a deep-fried carp, with eating called "carp jump Dragon Gate" bridge rice noodles, "jump" is the "pick" of the harmonics, the mouth is a metaphor for "Dragon Gate", send your children out to study or work more with the "hope for the son of the dragon" meaning. The table is placed in the center of a hot pot (Jianshui people called eating cooker) for a table (8 people) with rice noodles to eat for the "Eight Immortals across the sea". The above are inherited to the early liberation of Jianshui.

In the Guangxu period, Jianshui bridge rice noodles spread to the old and other places. In the early years of the Republic of China, a settled in Jianshui named Deng Ende Yuxi people (his wife is Jianshui people) with his family to Kunming Yangshikou open "De Xin Yuan" bridge rice noodle museum, Jianshui bridge rice noodle to Kunming. From then on, in Kunming, the operation of the bridge rice noodle restaurant gradually more and more, the development of the province, the bridge rice noodle has become the Yunnan Province, a major special flavor food.

As for Mengzi's deceptive legend Well According to legend, the novel way of eating over the bridge rice noodles originated in the Qing dynasty during the Guangxu period of Yunnan Mengzi, so far there has been more than 100 years of history. In the folklore is a beautiful story: in the beautiful Mengzi County, there is a green trees surrounded by sparkling South Lake, like jade, the environment is very elegant. At that time, there is a scholar in the South Lake Lake Pavilion reading poetry, his wife came every day to send food, because her home from the island there is a way, on the way to pass a long bridge, often meals are sent to the cool. Because the scholar eager to learn, reading very hard, often sleepless, often eat cold food cold food, so that the body is getting thinner and thinner, his wife see in the eyes, pain in the heart, the family's old hen killed, stewed in clay pots to the scholar to send, due to the overworked, in the road through the long bridge suddenly feel sleepy, will rest in the shade of the bridge, unknowingly fell asleep. When she woke up, the sun has almost set, thinking of stopping the husband is still hungry, the heart is very anxious, when she took the earthen pot with her hand, found that the earthen pot will still be hot, open the lid to see, the pot is still outwardly hot, a closer look, the original soup surface is covered with a layer of yellow chicken oil, a large number of heat sealed in the soup, a taste, but also very hot, is really happy, and hurried to give the meal to her husband to eat it while it is still hot. As a result of understanding the above reasoning, the clever wife changed the pattern of cooking for her husband. She knows that her husband likes to eat rice noodles, often with chicken oil covered in boiling soup, raw thin slices of meat, rice noodles and fresh vegetables, spices, etc., walk across the long bridge to the Lake Pavilion study, the scholar will be sliced meat, vegetables, rice noodles, spices in the soup can be eaten in a hot, eat up fresh and smooth, tasty, nutritious. As a result of her careful conditioning, the scholar gradually regained his health, was very energetic, studied harder, and finally passed the examination for the top grade. This story is widely circulated in the local community, the masses as a good story, because the wife to send food to the long bridge to the Lake Pavilion, so she invented this way of eating rice noodles, known as "rice noodles over the bridge". Later, because the scholar passed the examination, it is also known as "Scholar rice noodles".

In fact, over the bridge rice noodles in eating, rice noodles in the soup bowl and rice noodles between the bowl, just build a continuous rice noodles "bridge", can also be called "over the bridge rice noodles".