Buddha jumping wall is a very famous Fujian dish, which is said to have originated from the Qing dynasty and has a history of 200 years. This dish is made of 18 main ingredients and 12 auxiliary materials. The raw materials are: chicken, duck meat, abalone, duck's paw, shark's fin, sea cucumber, scallop, fish belly, water fish, shrimp meat, medlar, longan, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, Sole and so on. Seasonings include: oyster sauce, salt, ice pond, rice wine, ginger, onion, soy sauce, oil, soup and so on. More than 30 kinds of raw materials were processed and prepared separately, and then packed into Shaoxing jars in layers. There is Shaoxing famous wine mixed with ingredients in the altar, which is sealed with lotus leaves first and then stamped. It is made by boiling with pure smokeless charcoal fire (strong fire) and then simmering with low fire for five or six hours.

There are three kinds of legends about this dish.

First, it is said that this dish was originally cooked by the wife of an official of Fuzhou Official Money Bureau at that time. The official set up a banquet for Zhou Lian, the political envoy. After the dish was served, it was fragrant. After tasting it, Zhou Lian was full of praise and ordered Zheng Chunfa, the chef, to imitate it. Zheng Chunfa began to study art in his teens. He studied in kitchens in Beijing, Hangzhou, Jiangsu and Guangdong, and his skills were extremely high. After consulting the official's wife, he went home and reformed the dish. The raw materials were more seafood and less meat, and he named it "Eight Treasures of Burning Tans". Later, Zheng Chunfa set up Sanyouzhai Restaurant, which was later renamed Juchunyuan. Juchunyuan mainly hosted official banquets. According to the suggestions of some gourmets, Zheng Chunfa constantly improved the ingredients of this dish and officially named it "Fushouquan", which was the first dish of Juchunyuan. Many gourmets and literati came all the way here, and after tasting this dish, they were amazed. During the dinner, a scholar added a poem to add to the fun: "The altar is full of meat and fragrance, and the Buddha hears it and abandons Zen and jumps over the wall." This dish has been passed down to this day in the name of "Buddha jumps over the wall."

The second is: Fujian custom, on the third day after the new daughter-in-law gets married, she should cook in person to show off her tea and rice skills, serve her in-laws and gain appreciation. Legend has it that a rich girl, spoiled, did not learn to cook, and was worried on the eve of her marriage. Her mother took out all the delicacies at home and made all kinds of dishes, wrapped them in lotus leaves and told her how to cook them. Who knows that this young lady forgot all the cooking methods, so she poured all the dishes into a Shao wine jar, covered it with lotus leaves and left it on the stove. The next day, the aroma wafted out, and the whole family praised the good dishes. This is the origin of the "Buddha jumps over the wall" of "eighteen dishes cooked in one pot".

Thirdly, a group of beggars beg around with earthenware pots every day, and pour all kinds of leftovers together to cook, which is steaming and fragrant. When the monk smelled it, he couldn't help but be tempted by the fragrance, jumping out of the wall and feasting. There is a poem to prove it: "When the fragrance of meat floats ten miles, the Buddha hears that he abandoned Zen and jumped over the wall."

Pancake roll stuffed with scallions

A long time ago, the area around Dongmeng Mountain was overgrown with weeds and inaccessible. Under the Wanghai Building in Mengshan Mountain, there lived a family of Qiaozhen and Tian Zhuang, who farmed men and wove women, and lived a comfortable life. After work, Tian Zhuang studied hard and became a well-known scholar. Whoever had a wedding or a funeral in Shiliba Township asked Tian Zhuang for help. Whose family was bullied, Tian Zhuang took the initiative to help write a complaint and file a lawsuit, so he offended the local bully Wang Hongsan and was put in a mountain prison. The jailers told Qiao Zhen maliciously: "Your family Tian Zhuang has a problem with our master all day, and the master ordered that this time only pen and ink and paper are allowed, and no meals are allowed. He will be locked up for 7749 days to see if he can write!" Watching her husband starve in his cell, Qiaozhen didn't eat incense or sleep sweetly for three days and three nights. In a trance, she dreamed that Mengshan Niangniang came to her and said, "Qiaozhen, don't be puzzled. I'll teach you a way: you grind wheat into paste and spread it on a hot slate. Isn't it like paper? Then use green onions as a pen and bean paste as ink, and worry that your husband has no food? " When I woke up, Qiaozhen did it, and it really worked. She hurriedly brought her own pancakes, rolled them with green onions and bean paste, and sent them to Tian Zhuang. Seeing that the prison was "pen and paper", Tian Zhuang was hungry and ate them all. In this way, she drank mountain spring water and ate pancakes. After she got out of prison safely, she was very angry and studied hard, and she was admitted to the pancake spread by Qiaozhen. Kind Qiaozhen, in order to repay the kindness of Empress Mengshan, enthusiastically taught pancake skills to her neighbors and eight homes. Later, the spread of pancakes spread in Yimeng, 800 miles. For the convenience of use, people polished the thin stone like a round turtle, and then polished it to be smooth, called "Aozi", and later changed it into pig iron casting tools, which evolved into today's "Zizi" with the word "gold" beside it. Qiaozhen was worshipped as "pancake granny" by Yimeng Mountain people for inventing pancakes, and pancakes were also called "zhuangyuan cake".

Wang Zhaojun and Peach Blossom Fish

When it comes to "Zhaojun leaving the fortress", everyone knows that it was Wang Zhaojun who married the Huns and kissed them in the Han Dynasty.

Wang Zhaojun, named Pei, the word Zhaojun. Nanjun sister return (now Hubei sister return) people. Jin avoided Si Mazhao's taboo and changed his name to Ming Di or Mingfei. Her story has become a popular theme in later generations' poems, operas, novels and rap.

Xiangxi, Lingui County, Hubei Province, is located in Wuxia, on the north bank of the Yangtze River, where Wang Zhaojun was born. Every year when peach blossoms are in full bloom, groups of peach blossom fish will appear in Xiangxi River. They are all transparent and floating on the water. They are jade white, milky yellow and pink, with more than 200 tentacles. When they are scattered, they look like peach petals. There is also a beautiful and touching story about the origin of this peach blossom fish. According to legend, when Emperor Han Yuan decided to let Zhaojun marry Xiongnu and Fan Qian, she was allowed to return to her hometown to visit her parents and villagers. After Zhao Jun returned to his hometown, he said goodbye to his loved ones in detail, while looking for his childhood footprints all over the mountains. I really could not bear to leave this hometown with beautiful mountains and waters. But the emperor's life is at stake, and he must return to Beijing on schedule to marry Attila, a desert and exotic country. On the day Zhao Jun didn't go, the villagers sent one journey after another, which was inseparable. Zhaojun boarded the dragon boat in the river, picked up his beloved pipa and played a sad and moving farewell song. At this time, the peach blossom in full bloom was like her bosom friend. When she heard the touching place, she fell down one after another, some on the boat and some on her body. Zhao Jun couldn't help but burst into tears. Tears fell on the petals of the peach blossom and drifted into the river. These peach petals covered with Zhao Jun's tears have turned into colorful small fish and followed the dragon boat. When the plaintive pipa stopped abruptly, the boatmen shed tears of sympathy. A boatman touched a small fish and presented it to Zhao Jun, who affectionately gave them a beautiful name-Peach Blossom Fish. Since then, whenever the peach blossoms are in full bloom, the peach blossom fish will swim around in the clear water of Xiangxi, as if calling for the return of Zhaojun with their relatives in their hometown. Up to now, the old people in Xiangxi still say that whenever the peach blossoms are in full bloom and the bright moon is in the sky late at night, sometimes the sound of gold and jade ornaments on ancient women's clothes can be heard. No wonder Du Fu wrote the poem "Ode to Monuments" after visiting Zhaojun's hometown, saying that "it's time to return to the soul of the moonlit night"! People think it must be that Zhao Jun, who misses his hometown, has come back to visit the villagers, who also want to treat her with "peach blossom fish in water". Hubei famous dish, Peach Blossom Fish in Water, comes from this beautiful and sad legend.