According to "Maosheng Zhai Huangjia barbecue meat" heirloom Mr. Huang Qiuzhong wrote: Ming Hongwu two years (1369), Huang's ancestor, Huang Cheng three brothers, a basket and a quart from Jizhou (now Hebei Province) Zaoqiang County Huangjia kiln moved to Shandong, settled in Zhangqiu County Town (today's Zhangqiu City, Xiuhui Town). Huang's ancestor family first came to a foreign land, living in dire straits, all year round clothes, food. In order to feed the family to make up for the lack of life, to the mountains outside the city to hunt some game, will be gulped into the fire, burned feathers, roasted flesh, tear and eat. Initially, the things burned, only for hunger. After a long time, it will be familiar with the skill, the burning of wild game more and more delicious. Later, the family is getting rich, the game is less and less, so they turned their attention to the family raised pigs. But pork is not like game, fat fat fat, burned into the black soapy light, either roasted roasted, or half-cooked, not good-looking and not delicious. Later they figured out with adobe around the stove, the meat hanging in the inside of the stew, the initial solution to the contradiction between uncooked and scorched. With the continuous exploration, improved processing, after several setbacks, Huangjia barbecue meat finally became a popular delicacy. At this time, its ancestor Huang Cheng has aged, want to create the barbecue meat on the market for sale, at first not recognized by the people, Mr. Huang cut the barbecue meat into the plate, sell to the wine, in the bazaar, the first to taste and then buy, sincerity, gold and stone for open. Over time, gradually open sales. So Huang's barbecue meat of the beautiful name has spread, far and near neighbors to buy. Really let Huang's barbecue out of Zhangqiu is the old army Meng's auspicious business rise, the old army Meng's more than a hundred firms were distributed in Beijing, Tianjin, Wuhan, Jinan, Shanghai, Qingdao, Yantai, Baoding, Shenyang, Harbin, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Fuzhou, Zhoucun, Zhengzhou and other 18 large and medium-sized cities. Huangjia barbecue meat and "Rui Fu Xiang" founder - Meng Luochuan, Meng Haji Hou as the representative of the "old army Meng merchants" also has a history. After the outbreak of the First Opium War, China's national industry and commerce gradually developed. At that time, "the old army Meng's merchants" for the development of its business, made friends with a lot of the rich and powerful, civil and military bureaucrats, the Prince of Belle. At the same time also put the Huang family barbecue this Zhangqiu famous food to the Palace. It is said that the Empress Dowager Cixi tired of eating the Imperial House of production of a variety of delicacies, occasionally tasted a "Zhangqiu Huangjia barbecue meat", but felt that the meat is fat and not greasy, crispy skin and tender meat, a different aroma, a long aftertaste, it is heavily rewarded Meng Luochuan, but also the Royal Palace of the Huang family, a bronze medal, in order to commend the award. The bronze medal was destroyed in the 1960s and 1970s. According to Huang's descendants, in the Xiangshi business heyday, every year in October of the lunar calendar, Meng Luochuan wrote a letter to order the Huang family barbecue. At this time, the Huang family roast meat is not for sale, exclusively for the Xiang shop to the Spring Festival, the time up to three months, during the period of the Xiang shop sent horse-drawn carriages from the Zhangqiu Huang family a steady stream of roast meat shipped to businesses across the country, or as a gift, or to keep for consumption, from the Huang family roast meat will be known as the Beijing and Gigi, the dynasty and the countryside competing for the food. "Our school is on Dushi Street, diagonally across the street there is a storefront, a large wooden rack hanging open a roast pig. The color of the skin was half black, and the knife cut the retail. It was roasted very badly and was very tasty. This is the roasted whole pig of Jinan, which has not been seen elsewhere." This is the famous poet Mr. Zang Kejia in the "hometown food flavor" in the article of the memories, and let the poet can not forget the roast pig, it is the Huang family barbecue.
Beijing duck is famous all over the country, but in Zhangqiu there are a lot of people think that Huangjia barbecue pork is the "master" of Beijing duck. It is said that there was once a foreigner to Zhangqiu to visit friends, by the way, to teach the practice of Huangjia barbecue. The master was in the way, so he taught him a little bit of barbecue techniques. Later on, this friend was so poor that he roasted ducks in Beijing. After all, the skills of the Huang family barbecue, although he only learned the skin, but enough to let him stand out from the crowd, and then the duck business grew bigger and bigger, and finally achieved today's famous Peking Duck. Huang's barbecue and Peking Duck do have some similarities in technique, Huang's barbecue is hanging roasted, and the kung fu is not under the Quanjude Duck. From the history of the two, the history of Huangjia barbecue meat is far before the Peking duck, and there is also a link between the two, that is, Zhangqiu large onions. People who have eaten Quanjude duck know that Zhangqiu onion is essential to Quanjude duck, and Huangjia barbecue and Zhangqiu onion and Zhangqiu specialties. Many locals believe that Peking Duck was founded by Shandong people who went to Beijing and brought the skills of Huangjia barbecue meat and Zhangqiu scallions along with them. So there is a Beijing duck hanging roast and cake rolled onion, which is characterized by cake, onion or cucumber, sauce and duck together, and cake rolled onion, cucumber and sauce is exactly what the Shandong people most often eat and love to eat.
Today, Zhangqiu Huangjia barbecue has been selected as one of the "100 kinds of food that must not be tasted in Shandong". 2008 June, Huangjia barbecue production process was included in the second batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage list of Jinan City. It is a good choice for traveling to Zhangqiu to taste Huangjia barbecue meat.