1, Dongpo meat

Song Zhezong Yuanyou four years on January 3 (1089), Su Shi came to Hangzhou, a fifteen-year absence as governor. In May and June of the fifth year of the reign of Emperor Yuanyou, it rained heavily in the western part of Zhejiang Province, and the Taihu Lake flooded, flooding large areas of crops. Due to Su Shi's early and effective measures, the people in the western part of Zhejiang passed through the most difficult period. He organized the people to dredge the West Lake, build embankments and bridges to make the West Lake look new.

The people of Hangzhou were very grateful to Su Shi for this good deed, and everyone praised him as a wise parental official. I heard that when he was in Xuzhou and Huangzhou, his favorite food was pork, so when it was New Year's Day, people carried pigs and wine to pay homage to him.

Su Shi received, then instructed his family to cut the meat into squares, burned red crispy, and then sent to participate in the dredging of the West Lake workers to eat, everyone ate all the wonder, the meat he sent are affectionately known as "Dongpo meat.

2, Tai Bai duck and Li Bai

Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai lived in Sichuan with his father when he was young, and did not leave Sichuan until he was 25 years old. When he was in Sichuan, he loved to eat the famous local dish of stewed and steamed duck. Later, Li Bai was favored by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and was appointed a Hanlin scholar in Beijing. He ate the stewed steamed duck as a model when he was young, made a steamed duck to the Emperor Xuanzong, who appreciated it so much that he gave the dish the name "Taibai Duck", which has been continued to this day.

3, Xi Shi tongue and Xi Shi

Legend in the Spring and Autumn period, the king of Yue Goujian with the help of Xi Shi's beauty eliminated the state of Wu, and then the king of Yue wanted to pick up the Xi Shi to return to the country, but the king of Yue's queen because of the jealousy of the Xi Shi's beauty, afraid of her return to the favor of the king, will find someone to the bottom of the river will be sunk in the Xi Shi. After her death, Xi Shi was transformed into this shellfish "sand clams", expecting someone to find her, she would spit out a small tongue, to complain about her grievances, and people made this kind of shellfish into a dish named Xi Shi Tongue.

4, dumplings and Zhang Zhongjing

The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor to return to his hometown, went to his hometown on the banks of the White River, see a lot of poor people suffering from hunger and cold, the ears are frozen. He told his disciples to set up a medical hut in an open space in Nanyang Dongguan, and set up a cauldron to give medicine to the poor to cure their wounds. His medicine was called "Cold-removing Ear Soup", which was made by boiling mutton, chili peppers and some cold-removing herbs and then wrapping them into ear-shaped "ear" with dough.

Cooked in a pot and distributed to the patients begging for medicine, each two ears, a bowl of soup. People ate the soup to get rid of cold body heat, blood flow, two ears warm, eat for a period of time rotten ears will be good. Zhang Zhongjing sheds medicine until the 30th day of the Lunar New Year.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people celebrated the New Year and also celebrated the recovery of the rotten ears, so they made New Year's food after the appearance of the ear and ate it on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year. People called this food "dumpling ear", "dumplings" or partial food, eaten on the winter solstice and the first day of the year, to commemorate the day when Zhang Zhongjing opened the shed for medicine and cured the sick.

5, light cake and Qi Jiguang

Fujian Fu'an area there is a local famous food called light cake, talking about the history of the light cake, but also from the Qi Jiguang anti-Japanese said. In those days, Japanese invaders were rampant, their movements were uncertain, suddenly swarming to land, suddenly whistling away, and from time to time, sneak attacks in the dark, killing and setting fire to people. Qi Jiguang led the volunteer soldiers to hunt down and kill them, and he was very quick, but he could not think of any other way to delay the process of burying the pot.

On one occasion, Qi Jiguang marching, there is an old farmer offered many in the middle of a small hole, the outside of the sesame seed salted cake, as a consolation. And said: "Do not look at this cake bare, it can be worn with a rope to bring around, when hungry, tear off, can be hungry." Qi Jiguang praised, "Old uncle, you are really thoughtful, thank you. With this light cake, there will be no more delay in marching in the future."

When the news spread, people from all over the world competed to be the first to make light cakes for the army, and the name "light cakes" was passed down from then on. The name "light cake" has been passed down since then. In memory of Mr. Chi, the descendants called this small cake "Jiguang cake", which is still kept in Fu'an and other places today.

6, Guifei chicken and Yang Guifei

One day, Emperor Tang Minghuang and Yang Guifei drank wine for fun. Yang Guifei was so drunk that she suddenly pouted: I want to fly to the sky! Emperor Xuanzong thought that she wanted to eat something "flying to the sky", so he ordered the chef to make a "flying to the sky" dish to offer, which made the chef very helpless.

Suddenly a chef said in a flash: "buy a few children's chicken to, chop off the wings, stewed and cooked, is not 'flying to heaven'?" When the dish was presented, Yang Guifei ate a bite, praised: delicious, really delicious! Because of this dish, the princess loved to eat, so there is a "princess chicken" of the name.

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