Sichuan.

Dengying beef is a famous local traditional food in Dazhou City, Sichuan Province.

The beef slices are as thin as paper, red and bright in color, spicy and crispy in taste. Chew them carefully and you will have endless aftertaste.

Lantern shadow, that is, shadow play, uses light to project silhouettes of characters made of animal skins or cardboard onto a curtain.

The use of "lantern shadow" to call this kind of beef shows that the slices of meat are so thin that they can reveal objects under the light, just like the curtain in a shadow puppet show.

According to legend, more than 1,000 years ago, the poet Yuan Zhen of the Tang Dynasty, who was the censor of the imperial court, was appointed Sima in Tongzhou (now Dazhou City, Sichuan Province) because he offended the eunuchs and conservative bureaucrats.

One day Yuan Zhen went to a hotel to have a drink. The beef slices in the snack were thin and fragrant, and there was no residue in the mouth. He was quite impressed and immediately named it "Dengying Beef".

Lantern shadow, that is, shadow play, uses light to project silhouettes of characters made of animal skins or cardboard onto a curtain.

The use of "lantern shadow" to call this kind of beef shows that the slices of meat are so thin that they can reveal objects under the light, just like the curtain in a shadow play.