Beggar chicken, also known as Changshu beggar chicken and braised chicken, is a traditional famous dish in Changshu City, Jiangsu Province. Its method is to brush the treated chicken with juice, then wrap it with lotus leaves, pig net oil and yellow soil layer by layer, and finally throw it into the firewood pile for cooking. The method of making beggar chicken is similar to that of "cannon dolphin", one of the "eight treasures" in Zhou Dynasty. "cannon dolphin" is a dish made by first wrapping suckling pigs with clay, grilling them and then further processing them. Its color is bright bordeaux, fragrant, crispy and tender, crispy and tender at the entrance, and unique in flavor.

According to legend, a long time ago, there was a man named Huazi, who begged for food along the way and went to a village in Changshu County. One day, he happened to get a chicken and wanted to slaughter it for cooking, but there was neither cooker nor seasoning. He came to the foot of Yushan Mountain, killed the chicken, removed its internal organs, coated it with yellow mud and firewood, simmered the coated chicken in the fire, peeled off the mud shell, and took off the chicken feathers with the mud shell, thus revealing the cooked chicken.

Historical origin:

Jiaohua chicken, a famous food in the south of the Yangtze River, has a long history. It is a special dish made by wrapping the processed chicken with soil and lotus leaves and baking it. Anyone who has read Jin Yong's novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes must know this dish. Wrap the chicken in mud, set fire to the mud, and the chicken will be cooked when the mud is heated. It is also called rich chicken, which was originally created by beggars, so it is called flower chicken.

According to legend, when Zhu Yuanzhang led his troops to fight Jiangshan, once Zhu Yuanzhang lost the battle and ran for three days and three nights. The enemy was chasing after him. Zhu Yuanzhang was exhausted and hungry. At this moment, he saw a fire on the ground ahead, and there was a pile of mud in the middle of the fire. An old man named Hua (Hua) squatted next to him. Zhu Yuanzhang asked curiously, "What are you doing here?"

"When the old man called Hua (Hua) saw that it was Zhu Yuanzhang, he quickly said," I'm roasting chicken for the king. " Zhu Yuanzhang was very surprised when he heard this. He always asked Hua (Hua) to take the chicken out of the fire and open the mud. The smell was fragrant. Zhu Yuanzhang was full of praise while eating, "very delicious." From then on, Zhu Yuanzhang fought smoothly and became emperor. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang named this chicken "Fugui Chicken".

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-beggar chicken for the above content.