1. Wash the chicken and cut off its nails and tail.

2. Marinate with 36 Chinese herbal medicines for 12 hours.

3. Put the fresh lotus leaves and horsetail grass into a pot of boiling water and blanch them briefly, remove and drain well for later use.

4. Add appropriate amount of water to the loess mud to form a ball.

5. Wrap the chicken body tightly with lard net.

6. Wrap the lotus leaves and tie them tightly with horsegrass, and then wrap them with a layer of baking paper.

7. Wrap the mixed yellow mud on the chicken, line the baking sheet with oiled paper and put it in the oven. Bake the lower and middle layers at 180 degrees for 3 hours.

8. When cooked, remove the mud, remove the lotus leaves, and drizzle with sesame oil.