“Yipinguo” originated from Shangzhuang, Jixi County, Anhui Province, and is a representative dish in Anhui cuisine culture. You can't go to an Anhui restaurant without ordering "Yiping Guo". "Yiping Guo" has been famous for a long time, and everyone who has tasted this dish praises it highly. "Yipingguo" also has very high nutritional value and medicinal effects, and there are many allusions. I can’t wait to introduce this delicious dish to everyone.

Recently, the Anhui Provincial Culinary Society awarded the People’s Government of Shangzhuang Town, Jixi the title of “Hometown of the First-Class Hotpot of Chinese Anhui Cuisine”. Jixi, a thousand-year-old city, is the birthplace of Anhui cuisine. In September 2005, Jixi was awarded the "Hometown of Chinese Anhui Cuisine" by the China Cuisine Association, and in 2007 it was awarded the "Hometown of Chinese Chefs" by the China Cuisine Association. This is after Jixi has two "national brand" business cards, the Millennium Ancient Town has won the "gold brand business card".

Shangzhuang, located at the eastern foot of Huangshan Mountain, is an ancient town in southern Anhui with a history of thousands of years. There are remarkable Feng Shui, worthy characters, beautiful scenery and delicacies to taste. As one of the gold medal dishes of Anhui cuisine, Yipin Guo has its origins here and has a long history. It complements the area's prosperous culture, developed commerce, and numerous celebrities. Yipinguo is also woven with many interesting folklore and stories highly praised by celebrities.

Emperor Qianlong and Yipin Guo

According to legend, Emperor Qianlong was on a tour of the south incognito. On his way from Jiuhua Mountain to Huizhou Prefecture, he saw that it was getting late and stayed at a farmhouse. The simple village woman warmly received her, and put the remaining dishes from the day into a two-eared iron pot layer by layer in the order of vegetarian and then meat. Qianlong and his entourage were hungry and ate with gusto. Qianlong was full of praise and asked what the dish was called. The village woman casually replied: "It's cooked in one pot." Emperor Qianlong thought the name was inelegant, so he gave it the name "Yiping Guo" after some thought. , the meaning of "worthy of first-class quality".

Zeng Guofan and Yipin Guo

The words "Yipin Guo" and "Yipin" are also related to Zeng Guofan, an important official in the late Qing Dynasty who lived in Yipin. In the tenth year of Xianfeng's reign (1860), Zeng Guofan led the elite Hunan Army to engage in a fierce battle with the Taiping Army. They were trapped in Qimen, and the food route was cut off for a time. He ordered the sergeants to collect local materials in the mountainous areas and eat whatever they could find. Sometimes I get a chicken or pig, and cook it with mountain bamboo shoots, dried beans, tofu, and dried noodles. The pot is cooked and served to everyone. Later, Zeng Guofan moved eastward, and then the battle for Anqing turned the tide of the war. Recalling the difficult situation in Qimen, Zeng Guofan's subordinates later named the "one-pot cooked" food they ate at that time "Yipingguo", boasting that they had eaten the same pot of food with the first-level officials.

Mr. Hu Shi and Yipin Guo

Hu Shi traveled at home and abroad, always accompanying Jixi's famous dish "Yiping Guo". Whenever distinguished guests come to visit or entertain friends from the same hometown, the "first-grade hot pot" must be served. When Hu Shi was the ambassador to the United States, he often entertained foreign friends with "Yipinguo" and won widespread praise.

Liang Shiqiu and Yipin Guo

When Hu Shi was the president of Peking University, he served Jixi’s son-in-law Liang Shiqiu with “Yipinguo”. After tasting “Yipinguo”, Mr. Liang Shiqiu, a later scholar, once The author praised: "A large iron pot with a diameter of about two feet was served hot. It was still boiling inside. There was a layer of chicken, a layer of duck, a layer of meat, and a layer of fried tofu, dotted with some egg dumplings. There are radishes and green vegetables at the bottom, which taste great."

Nutritional value of Yipinguo

Pork is rich in high-quality protein and essential fatty acids, and provides heme (organic iron) and cysteine ??that promotes iron absorption, which can Improve iron deficiency anemia.

Every 100 grams of quail eggs contains 72.9 grams of water, 12.3 grams of protein, 12.3 grams of fat, 1.5 grams of carbohydrates, 72 mg of calcium, 238 mg of phosphorus, 2.9 mg of iron, 1000 international units of vitamin A, and vitamin B10 .11 mg, vitamin B20.86 mg, niacin 0.3 mg, etc., all of which are indispensable nutrients for the human body. In addition, what is particularly outstanding is that its lecithin content is 3-4 times higher than that of eggs.

The medicinal effects of Yipinguo

Pork: sweet and salty in taste, neutral in nature, enters the spleen, stomach, and kidney meridians; nourishes the kidneys and blood, nourishes yin and moisturizes dryness; mainly treats fever and body fluid damage , thirsty and thin, weak kidneys, postpartum blood deficiency, dry cough, constipation, tonifying deficiency, nourishing yin, moisturizing dryness, nourishing liver yin, moisturizing the skin, facilitating bowel movements and quenching thirst. Drinking pork soup can quickly relieve irritability, dry cough, constipation and dystocia caused by insufficient body fluids.

Quail eggs have good auxiliary effects on lung disease, hepatitis, meningitis, stomach disease, diabetes, asthma, heart disease, neurasthenia, high blood pressure, hypotension, arteriosclerosis, infantile malnutrition and other diseases. ; It has a high nourishing effect on neurasthenia, insomnia and dreaminess, malnutrition, underdevelopment, physical weakness, and anemia in pregnant women before and after delivery.

Taboos of Yipin Hotpot

According to the "Suiyuan Food List", pigs and beef are cooked in different pots, and less beef should be added. It is not advisable to drink a lot of tea after eating pork, because the tannic acid in tea will synthesize astringent tannic acid protein with protein, which will slow down intestinal peristalsis and prolong the retention time of feces in the intestine, which can easily cause constipation.