A few days ago, the Anhui Provincial Culinary Institute awarded the Jixi Shangzhuang Town People's Government "China Hui cuisine a pot of the township" title. The thousand-year-old Jixi is the birthplace of Huizhou cuisine, in September 2005, Jixi was awarded by the China Cuisine Association, "China Huizhou cuisine township", in 2007 was awarded by the China Cuisine Association, "China chef township". This is after Jixi has two "national" business card, the millennium town on the village and won the "gold" brand name card.
Shangzhuang, located in the eastern foothills of Mount Huangshan, is an ancient town in southern Anhui with a thousand-year history. There are feng shui that can be recognized, characters that can be expressed, beautiful scenery that can be seen, and delicacies that can be tasted. As one of the gold-medal dishes of Anhui cuisine, Yipin Wok, which was established here and has a long history, is complemented by the place's flourishing culture, developed trade and commerce, and a large number of celebrities. Yipin pot is also woven with many interesting folklore and celebrity stories.
Emperor Qianlong and a pot
Legend has it that when the Emperor Qianlong micro-services south patrol, by the Jiuhua Mountain to Huizhou House on the way, see the sky is late into a farmer's home to stay. Simple village women hospitality, the remaining dishes during the day, according to the order of the first vegetarian after meat, layered in a two-ear iron pot hot on the end. Qianlong and his entourage hungry, eat with relish. Qianlong while praising, while asking what the name of this dish. The village woman casually replied: "a pot cooked." Qianlong thought the name is not elegant, after a little thought, the name "a pot", both "this delicious food, worth a product" and "with the long-lived master to enjoy this delicacy, can be a product" meaning.
Zeng Guofan and Yipin Pot
The word "Yipin Pot" and "Yipin" are also related to Zeng Guofan, an important official in the late Qing Dynasty. Xianfeng ten years (1860), Zeng Guofan rate of the Xiang army elite and the Taiping army to start a vicious war, trapped Qimen, once the grain road cut off, ordered the soldiers in the mountainous areas of the local materials, searching for what to eat what. Sometimes occasionally get a chicken pig, with bamboo shoots, dry bean curd, tofu, noodles and other cooking, a pot of cooked end will come up to eat with everyone. Later Zeng Guofan moved to the east stream, followed by the battle for Anqing, reversed the situation. Thinking back to the difficult situation in Qimen, Zeng Guofan's subordinates after the year to eat "a pot ripe" named "a pot", boasted that they ate with a pot of food with a big man.
Mr. Hu Shih and a pot
Hu Shih traveled to the sea and abroad, always with Jixi famous dish "a pot" companion. Whenever Mr. Hu Shih visited his home or invited friends from his hometown, he would serve "Yipin Wok". When Hu Shi was the ambassador to the U.S., he often entertained foreign friends with "Yipin Pot", which won him a lot of praise.
Liang Shiqiu and Yipin Pot
When Hu Shi was the president of Peking University, he served his son-in-law Liang Shiqiu in Jixi with Yipin Pot, and Mr. Liang Shiqiu, a later literati, praised Yipin Pot in an article after he tasted it: "A large iron pot, caliber almost two feet, hot up, inside the boiling, a layer of chicken, a layer of duck, a layer of meat, a layer of oil tofu, dotted with some egg dumplings, tightly underneath the radish, greens, taste very good.
A pot of nutritional value
Pork is rich in high-quality proteins and essential fatty acids, and provides heme (organic iron) and promote iron absorption of cysteine, can improve iron deficiency anemia. nutrients. In addition, especially prominent is that its lecithin content is 3-4 times higher than eggs.
A pot of medicine
Pork: taste sweet and salty, sex flat, into the spleen, stomach, kidney meridian; tonifying the kidney and nourishing blood, nourishing yin and moistening dryness; the main treatment of fever and injury, thirst and thinness, kidney weakness, post-partum blood deficiency, dry cough, constipation, tonifying the deficiency, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, nourishing the liver and yin, moistening the skin, and relieve the two bowel movements and quench thirst. Pork boiled in soup and drink can be an urgent remedy due to insufficient fluid caused by irritability, dry cough, constipation and difficult labor.
Quail eggs for lung disease, hepatitis, meningitis, gastric disease, diabetes, asthma, heart disease, neurasthenia, hypertension, hypotension, arteriosclerosis, pediatric chancre and other diseases have a good auxiliary effect; neurasthenia, insomnia, sleeplessness, malnutrition, underdevelopment, weakness, pregnant women, maternal prenatal, post-partum anemia and so on have a very high nourishing effect.
A pot of contraindications
According to "with the garden food list" pig, cow different pot cooking said, beef to put less. Consumption of pork should not drink a lot of tea, because the tannins of tea will synthesize with protein with astringent tannins, slowing down intestinal peristalsis, prolonging the feces in the intestinal tract retention time, easy to cause constipation.