Everyone who has been to Northeast China knows that

"Chicken Stewed with Mushrooms" is an essential "hard dish" in Northeastern stews,

It can be eaten especially on more solemn occasions.

There is a saying among Northeastern folk: "When the uncle comes in, the chicken has no soul."

The new brother-in-law is the "petty guest" of the father-in-law's family.

Especially in the past when supplies were scarce,

In order to show the importance to the new brother-in-law,

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To entertain a new uncle, one must kill a free-range "Liaoda Chicken" and stew a handful of "Hazel Mushrooms" or "Slide Mushrooms" picked by oneself from the mountains. ,

Stew for an hour over firewood,

The whole yard is filled with the delicious aroma of chicken and mushrooms.

After finishing the meal, the new uncle officially entered the door.

"Chicken Stewed with Mushrooms" has always been regarded as a specialty of Northeast China.

But in fact, the combination of chicken and mushrooms can be found all over the country.

As early as Qianlong, Guangxu, Xuantong, and Cixi, the dish "Fat Chicken with Mushrooms" was on the imperial meal list.

It is "Chicken Stewed with Mushrooms."

For example, Yunnan’s famous dish “Stewed Chicken with Bamboo Fungus” is actually the same category as “Chicken Stewed with Mushrooms”.

Why did chicken and mushrooms become a golden combination?

We know that Chinese people do not eat simply to satisfy their cravings or to fill their stomachs.

In Chinese food culture, there is the concept of "food and medicine come from the same source".

Eating the right food can help the body stay healthy and reduce the occurrence of diseases.

Therefore, any classic dish that has passed the test of time has its inherent reasons.

Chicken is a meat that we often eat in our lives.

Chickens have been successfully domesticated by humans as early as about 4,000 years ago.

People’s feelings towards chickens So deep that the chicken even has a place among the twelve zodiac signs.

In traditional Chinese culture, dragons and phoenixes are both deified animals.

Chickens are spiritual birds with extraordinary life experiences. For example, the image of phoenix comes from chickens.

"Taiping Yulan": "In the time of the Yellow Emperor, the phoenix was used as a chicken."

It is said that the chicken is the sun in the sun. The rooster crows at sunrise, bringing light and driving away demons and ghosts. .

According to research, Dong Xun of Jin Dynasty said in "Answers on Etiquette and Customs": The first day of the first lunar month is Rooster Day, and a rooster is painted on the door on the first day of the lunar month.

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, chickens became the objects used to ward off evil spirits and suppress demons in door paintings.

The Records of the Years of Jingchu written by Zong purn of the Southern Dynasty also contains: "On the first day of the first lunar month, a picture was posted on the chicken door, a reed rope was hung on it, and peach symbols were placed beside it, so that hundreds of ghosts would be afraid of it."

This custom has been passed down, making sticking a chicken on the lintel a Spring Festival custom in Chengdu, Sichuan.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, chicken can warm and tonify, stimulate the heart meridian qi and blood, and is good at treating deficiency syndromes of heart qi and heart blood deficiency.

Especially for women who have the habit of drinking chicken soup after childbirth. It is to help women take care of themselves after childbirth.

However, chicken, especially young roosters, are prone to excitement, heat, and even early awakening after eating chicken.

So many children nowadays have frequent ADHD and irritable tempers, which are all related to the fact that people nowadays like to eat some fried chicken.

We Chinese people especially understand the properties of food, so in order to supplement nutrition without adding burden to the body,

So we use the different properties of food to match and restrain each other.

Mushrooms generally grow in grass or in the shade of trees where there is no sunlight.

So the yin and cold air is relatively strong and has a good effect of nourishing yin, which is what neutralizes the heat of chicken. Good choice.

So chicken paired with mushrooms is delicious and nutritious, while avoiding the heat of chicken and the coldness of mushrooms.

So this classic dish has been passed down to this day.