Yancheng Eight Bowls is the representative of Yancheng folk dishes, with delicious taste, strong but not greasy, light but not thin, and local characteristics in color, fragrance, taste and shape. Its cooking skills have been passed down by the times, and now it has become the most distinctive food brand in Yancheng.
In order to protect and promote the Eight Bowls brand, Yancheng Chengtou Group has been committed to trademark application and brand creation for many years. After years of efforts, 20 17 "Yancheng Eight Bowls" was officially approved and registered as a "collective trademark" by the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, becoming the first local dish with identity in China.
The Historical Origin of Yancheng Eight Bowls
Tracing back to the birth of Yancheng Eight Bowls is legendary. Yancheng Eight Bowls originated in the Three Kingdoms period. According to legend, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Sun Jian (the father of Prince Sun Quan of the Three Kingdoms), the first county magistrate of Duyan County (the earliest county in Yancheng), was Sun Jian, the first county magistrate of Duyan County, as seen in the history books. Shortly after he took office, he received a strange case. After repeated investigations, he still had no clue. He thought hard about it and couldn't sleep at night.
One day, a monk pointed out that the Eight Immortals would pass by here in three days, or they could help him solve the case. In order to solve the case quickly, Sun Jian ordered the carpenter to make an exquisite square table, set eight bowls, eight chopsticks, eight spoons, eight plates, eight cups and eight chairs, served eight dishes and invited the square to dinner.
Sun Jian personally held incense in court and said respectfully, "I respectfully invite the Eight Immortals to a banquet in Asiana." Then he told this strange case, told him the strangeness in the case, and asked the Eight Immortals to point out the maze. The Eight Immortals were very satisfied with Sun Jian's kind invitation and the wine and food he prepared.
That night, Sun Jian got the fairy's advice in her dream and soon solved the case. Eight dishes are used to entertain the Eight Immortals and solve crimes, thus producing the "Eight Bowls". The square table was later called the square table. As a result, Du Yan people also followed suit, using eight bowls to hold banquets, hence the name Yancheng Eight Bowls.
At the end of Sui Dynasty, Wei Che occupied Yancheng and built a palace. In order to show his identity when entertaining the gentry, he added many precious ingredients to the eight bowls of banquet, and let the eight bowls enter the palace from the people. Gradually, the Eight Bowls spread in Yancheng, and after thousands of years of continuous inheritance and development, they evolved into the "Eight Bowls in Yancheng" that we are familiar with today.