According to folklore: it was the invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces in 1900, Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu fled a folk episode. Due to the Empress Dowager Cixi and Guangxu Emperor fled in a panic, all the way to the food, clothing, housing and transportation compared to the palace is a world of difference, in the escape a few days later, Cixi's stamina is obviously not strong, loss of appetite, which can be anxious about those who are followed. So the little Li Zi racked his brains, trying to think of ways to make the old Buddha happy. When walking to a small village, just at noon. Little Li Zi saw a child holding a golden-colored things are eating with great relish. So close to observe and ask, the child led Eunuch Li to his home. Upon inquiry, the original farmer surnamed Yao, a family of five, to hunting for a living. Because it is the summer meat is not good to store, so the home slaughtered chicken with salt and cinnamon in the altar marinade, to have guests at home, and then take out the oil frying, you can make a color of golden, burnt incense, fresh and tasty delicacies. So Little Li Zi put the Empress Dowager's all the way about the situation with the farmer, the farmer listened to immediately from the altar to take out a whole chicken into the frying pan, after the completion of the hand over to Eunuch Li. Little Li Zi took just made food quickly sent to the old Buddha side. Cixi how eye to see this thing color golden, fragrant nose, suddenly feel refreshed, appetite, so a bite to eat a fine, but also feel not addicted. So asked the small Li Zi this chicken called what chicken, small Li Zi can not say, just told the matter in the farmer's home. Cixi after hearing repeatedly called: good, good, excellent, excellent, which is higher than the Imperial House of delicacies. Immediately said to the little Li Zi: "Then it will be called "osmanthus altar chicken." Therefore, the osmanthus altar chicken thus got.