China is the hometown of soybeans, and soybeans have been cultivated in China for 5,000 years.

It is also the first country to develop and produce soy products.

From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, people regarded soybeans (ie Shu) as their main food.

Farmers have sung it more than once: There is Shu in the Central Plains, and the common people pick it.

Collect bean sprouts, pick bean sprouts, and harvest them from the valley in the basket.

In July, sunflowers are cooked and silent.

The ancients not only regarded soybeans as their staple food, but also gradually developed tofu, fermented soybeans, sauces, raw bean sprouts, pressed oil, and other soy products. This is a great contribution to mankind.

Just the ordinary tofu is now popular all over the world!

Tofu originated from Liu An, King of Huainan in the Han Dynasty.

Liu An, King of Huainan, was the grandson of Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and the son of Liu Chang, King Li of Huainan. He succeeded his father and was named King of Huainan. He lived in the 42nd year of Shouchun.

There are thousands of alchemy practitioners in Liu An, and they all know the secrets of gods and treasures.

Among his disciples, Su Fei, Li Shang, Tian You, Jinchang and Zuo Wu were the most famous and were known as the Eight Gongs.

Hachigong spent the whole day refining the elixir of immortality with Liu An in the northern mountains of Shouchun City. During the elixir refining, Liu An and others occasionally mixed gypsum with soy milk and chemically transformed it into tofu.

There are many descriptions of Liu An's invention of tofu in classics.

There are as many as forty or fifty kinds of classics recording Liu An's invention of tofu.

The main points are summarized as follows: "Ciyuan" records: "Beans are used for making it. The preparation method is to soak it in water and grind it, remove the residue, fry it into a precipitate and marinate it with salt, collect it in a kettle, and put it into a vat.

Gypsum harvester. According to legend, it was created by Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Han Dynasty. "Liu Xiuye's Thirteen Poems on Vegetable Food" by Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty: The bean sprouts are sparse, but they are exhausted.

This is the earliest record in the existing literature that mentions tofu as a Huainan technique.

Yuan Wu Rui's "Daily Materia Medica" says: The method of tofu began with Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Han Dynasty.

Ming Dynasty Ye Ziqi's "Cao Shu Zi Zazai Chapter" says: Tofu began in the Han Dynasty, and it was the art of Liu An, the king of Huainan.

The Ming Dynasty poet Su Bingheng wrote "Tofu Poetry" and said: "The Huainan technique is said to be the best. The skin fades and the essence can be seen. A round of grinding brings up the agar liquid, and a hundred boiling soups roll snowflakes. The eaves of earthen pots are immersed in shadows, and the golden knife cuts them.

The taste of broken jade is unknown. It is mostly found in monks and Taoists. "Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica·Gu Bu·Tofu" says: The method of tofu began with Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Han Dynasty.

Ming Dynasty Chen Jiru's "Cong Shu Ji Ji Qun Sui Lu" says: Tofu was written by Liu An, King of Huainan.

Luo Xin's "Wuyuan" of the Ming Dynasty records: Liu An began to make tofu.

Wang Ji's "The Original Meeting of Things" of the Qing Dynasty said that there are records of Liu An making tofu in ancient books of the Western Han Dynasty.

Records belong to historical records and can be completely relied on.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Fang Yizhi's "Wuxing Zhi" said: Beans are regarded as curd, which was passed down by the King of Huainan.

Ancient historical relics are the archaeological basis of tofu culture.

During the Second China Tofu Culture Festival, the "International Symposium on Tofu Culture" was held in the ancient city of Shouxian County, and participating experts and scholars were invited to visit the Shouxian Museum.

I saw the water mill unearthed in April 1965 from the Zhuang team Han tomb in Wafang Village, Cha'an Township, Shouxian County.

Judging from the unearthed cultural relics, it is certain when and where tofu was invented in the Han Dynasty.

Liu An, King of Huainan, invented tofu.

Over the next two thousand years, tofu making gradually spread throughout China.

Working people in various places continued to improve it according to regional characteristics, and finally formed China's tofu culture.

In order to promote the delicacy of tofu and promote national culture, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait held the first Chinese Tofu Culture Festival in Beijing and Taipei respectively on September 15, 1990, and determined September 5, the birthday of Huainan Wang Liu An, the inventor of tofu, as the birthday of China

The Tofu Culture Festival holds grand commemorative events every year.