1. beggar chicken, also known as "braised chicken with yellow mud". According to legend, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, there was a beggar at the foot of Yushan Mountain in Changshu. He didn't get a meal for several days, and accidentally stole a chicken to satisfy his hunger, but he didn't have any cooking utensils and spices, and even the boiled water could not be found. He had no choice but to slaughter the chicken, take out its internal organs, paste it with mud, and accumulate some broken pine leaves to ignite and roast it. When the mud is baked yellow and falls to the ground, the chicken feathers fall off with the mud, and the fragrance is overflowing. The servant of a large family nearby passed by here, was lured by the aroma, and learned how to stew chicken, and told his master. The host did the same thing, invited relatives and friends to taste it, and was full of praise. Everyone asked the host what famous teacher he was from, and the host said, what famous teacher is a beggar, which is a beggar chicken. According to this legend, Zhu A 'er, a famous chef in the Garden Restaurant with Mountain View, a century-old shop in Changshu, filled the chicken with several kinds of fresh ingredients, and baked it with pig net oil and fresh lotus leaves, which made it more delicious and fragrant, and became a famous traditional dish in Changshu.

2. There is a reason to name this dish with completely different words of the rich and the poor: "beggar chicken" originally came from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, and was cooked by some poor refugees, that is, "beggars" or chickens stolen or begged. It was originally an unpretentious street dish. When the Qing emperor Qianlong visited Jiangnan incognito, he accidentally left his rags on the streets. One of the beggars felt sorry for him, so he gave him the beggar chicken, which he thought was delicious. He was tired and hungry. Of course, he thought the chicken was extremely delicious. He asked its name urgently, and he was embarrassed to call it beggar chicken, so he boasted that it was called "rich chicken". Qianlong said that this "rich chicken" is delicious. Afterwards, I learned that this tramp is the current emperor. This "beggar chicken" also became a "rich chicken" because of the emperor's golden mouth. Become a famous dish.