"Buddha jumps over the wall" is the top traditional dish in Fujian cuisine. According to legend, this dish originated in the late Qing Dynasty. An official of the official bank of Yangqiao Lane in Fuzhou hosted a banquet at home to invite Chief Secretary Zhou Lian and the official's wife to cook in person. More than 21 kinds of raw materials, such as chicken, duck and meat, were put into Shaoxing jars and carefully simmered into a meaty dish. Zhou Lian was full of praise after tasting it. Afterwards, Zhou Lian took Zheng Chun, the official chef, to visit the official bank. After returning to my office, Zheng Chunfa carefully studied and reformed the materials, using more seafood and less meat, and the effect was better than the former. In 1877, after Zheng Chunfa opened the "Juchunyuan" restaurant, he continued to study and enrich the raw materials of this dish, and the dishes made were rich in flavor and widely praised. One day, several scholars came to the restaurant to drink and taste dishes, and the hall official brought an altar of dishes to the scholar's table. The lid of the altar was opened, and the dishes were full of meat and fragrance, and the scholar was intoxicated by the smell. Someone asked the name of this dish. A: It hasn't been named yet. So the scholar improvised poems, including a poem cloud; "The altar is full of meat and fragrance floating around, and the Buddha heard that he abandoned the bouncing wall." Everyone was amazed. Since then, quoting the meaning of the poem: "Buddha jumps over the wall" has become the proper name of this dish, which has a history of more than 111 years.

The dish "Buddha jumps over the wall" is said to have originated in the light years of the Qing Dynasty, with a history of more than 211 years. This dish is made up of eighteen main ingredients and more than ten auxiliary materials. Its raw materials are chicken and duck, pork belly, hoof tip, tendon, ham and chicken and duck gizzard. There are shark's fin, sea cucumber, abalone, scallop and fish belly; There are also more than 31 kinds of raw materials and accessories, such as pigeon eggs, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and razor clams, which are processed and modulated separately.

There are many theories about the origin of this dish. According to Mr Fei Xiaotong, the inventor of this dish was a group of beggars. These beggars carry broken crocks and beg everywhere every day, collecting all kinds of leftovers in the restaurant.

It is said that one day, when a restaurant owner went out, he happened to smell a wisp of strange incense floating in the street and found the wine left in the broken crock mixed with all kinds of leftovers. The boss was enlightened by this, and went back to the store to mix all kinds of raw materials in an urn, accompanied by wine, and created the Buddha jumping wall.

secondly, there is a custom in Fujian called "trying to cook". According to this rule, the newly married daughter-in-law comes to the door on the first day, returns to the door on the second day, and tries to cook in front of the public on the third day. This is a test of the new daughter-in-law's housekeeping skills.

According to legend, there was a spoiled woman who couldn't cook. Before getting married, I was worried about the upcoming kitchen trial. The mother tried her best for her daughter, and finally rummaged out all the treasures of the family, prepared them one by one and packed them into small bags with lotus leaves, and repeatedly told her daughter how to cook all kinds of raw materials. Who knows that the bride forgot all kinds of cooking methods in her panic the day before the kitchen trial. She didn't go to the kitchen until evening, unpacked all kinds of raw materials wrapped by her mother, piled up a table, and when she was at a loss, she heard that her in-laws wanted to enter the kitchen. Fearing that her in-laws were picky, the new wife saw a jar at the table, and hastily put all the raw materials into the jar. She had to wrap the jar mouth with lotus leaves wrapped with raw materials and put the jar on the stove that was about to put out the fire. Thinking about the kitchen trial tomorrow, the new wife sneaked back to her family for fear that she could not cope. The next day, all the guests arrived, but the new wife was gone. When my in-laws entered the kitchen, they found a jar on the stove, which was still hot. As soon as the lid was lifted, the fragrance was overflowing, and the guests cheered in unison when they smelled the fragrance, which became a Buddha jumping over the wall.