For a Henanese, it is too difficult to find a delicious bowl of spicy spicy soup outside Henan. Many people think that the hot and spicy soup is a snack and cannot be popular among the people. Some people think that the hot and spicy soup does not sell well and there is basically no market outside the province (especially in the south).

However, Hu spicy soup is one of those things that "you only know how delicious it is after you have eaten it".

Small file of Hu Spicy Soup

The status of Hu Spicy Soup in Henan is what hot pot is to Chongqing Bobo Chicken in Leshan, and rice rolls are to Guangdong. In the eyes of Henan people, no delicacy can compare to a bowl of spicy spicy soup that is as real as their own. In the streets and alleys of Henan, you can smell the familiar smell in the air every morning, and you can always find a small stall selling Hu spicy soup not far away.

Hu spicy soup, also known as spicy soup, is a well-known snack in Henan, Shaanxi and other Central Plains regions. It originated from Xiaoyao Town, Xihua County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province and Beiwudu Town, Wuyang County, Luohe City. Among them, Xiaoyao Zhenhu spicy soup is the most famous and is now very popular in all parts of Henan and even in surrounding provinces of Henan. It is a traditional soup that is common in breakfast in northern my country.

Hu spicy soup is a soup prepared from a variety of natural Chinese herbal medicines in proportion. Bone soup is used as the base soup. Pepper is added separately to repel cold and appetizer. It is supplemented by gluten, beef and mutton, vermicelli, day lily, and fungus. Wait for the ingredients and cook them together. It is characterized by rich soup flavor, beautiful color, thick soup, spicy and delicious, nutritious and appetizing. It is very suitable for eating with fried dough sticks, fried buns, steamed buns, scallion pancakes, pot helmets, thousand-layer cakes and other noodles.

This ordinary snack that is popular throughout Henan actually has an extraordinary origin.

As for the origin of Hu spicy soup, you can get a glimpse of it from the name. The "Hu" in Hu spicy soup refers to its main ingredient - pepper. Pepper was introduced to China in the Tang Dynasty, so there is a folk legend that Hu spicy soup originated from the Zhou Dynasty and Cao Wei, but this is actually biased.

According to research, the ancestors of Hu spicy soup should be hot and sour soup and meat porridge. According to the "Taiping Huimin Heji Bureau Prescription" which was widely circulated in the Song Dynasty, pungent, warm and fragrant medicine was added to the food. It is estimated that the social trend at that time was based on the sour and sour soup's functions of sobering up and digestion. Meat was probably added to adapt to the tastes of more people and to replenish qi and deficiency, and was supplemented with spicy spices such as ginger, pepper, star anise, and cinnamon. The aroma promotes qi, soothes the liver and invigorates the spleen. Therefore, the spicy spicy soup was improved on the basis of these two foods, and at the same time, it became the most original bowl of spicy spicy soup.

Later, when the Manchu and Qing dynasties entered the country, in order to avoid the suspicion that "Hu" in Hu spicy soup might allude to the Manchu and Qing dynasties, they changed it to "煳". This is the origin of the nickname "糳 spicy soup" .

In addition, Hu spicy soup also has many interesting legends. One of them is that it is said that during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Yan Song, in order to please the emperor, obtained a pair of condiments for longevity from a Taoist priest and presented them to the emperor, so that he could make soup and drink it. The soup was so delicious that Jiajing Longyan was so happy that he named it "Yu Tang". After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial chef Zhao Ji fled to Xiaoyao Town (today's Xiaoyao Town, Xihua County, Zhoukou City) with this medicine and spread it to the local residents. Since then, it has been evolved and improved by local people from generation to generation and has been passed down to this day.