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Steak chicken at the end of the Yuan and early Ming Dynasty, with the busy transportation, Dezhou became the imperial road from Kyoto to the nine provinces. The economy began to show prosperity, and roast chicken appeared on the market. The old man with a basket hawking roast chicken often appeared near the canal wharf, the water and drought post and the government offices in the city. This kind of roasted chicken is after the artificial fine, tasty roasted chicken: its form lying on its side, red color and flavor, tender and delicious meat, as the later steak chicken prototype, the first appearance. With the development of economy, the city of Dezhou entered its heyday at this time, and became one of the thirty-three big cities in the country. The city had become one of the thirty-three big cities in China. With its thoroughfares, merchants and businessmen gathered here, and goods from the four hometowns were dispersed here, there was a situation of "customers coming from the south and the north like clouds, and many restaurants and inns like forests". Roast chicken has not only seen on the table, and "step" into society. Arm carrying box selling roasted chicken more than the beginning of the Jia family, and later more famous is nicknamed "Xu Roasted Chicken" Xu Enrong family, as well as the west side of the Zhang family, and so on, open the door to the face of the set up store is not uncommon. Of course, at this time to eat roast chicken is still limited to the dignitaries, merchants and tycoons, the people can only look at the chicken sigh. But the inventor of roast chicken, the producer is the real working people. In order to provide for their families, they worked hard to make a miserable living, but at the same time, they also made contributions to society. Later developed chicken food, in the narrow family workshop, in the ancient, crude process, produced the original chicken culture, thick chicken incense, floating state city.
Kangxi thirty-one years (A.D. 1692), in the city of Texas, outside the west door of the street, there is a called Jia Jiancai roasted chicken production artists, he operates a have a roasted chicken store. Because this street leads to the canal dock, small business is not bad. One day, Mr. Jia had to go out on urgent business. He instructed the waiter to keep the fire burning. How do you know Jia boss feet before leaving, the little guy fell asleep in front of the pot stove in a while, woke up and found that the cooking over the fire. When he was at his wits' end, Mr. Jia came back and tried to fish out the chicken to sell it in the store. The chicken was so fragrant that it attracted many passers-by to buy it. Guests bought a taste, praise: not only meat rotten flavor, even the bones are also chewed and crispy and fragrant, can be said to wear incense through the bone. Afterwards, Mr. Jia studied and improved his technique. This appeared in the original practice of steak chicken, that is, large fire boil, small fire stew, with the current saying is that the fire should be the first martial arts after the text, martial arts in order, steak chicken so called "steak" because of this. Jiajia chicken is famous, old customers suggested to give the chicken a name. Jia shopkeeper himself could not think of a name. After a few days, he suddenly remembered that there was an old showman in the neighborhood, and thought that he would be able to come up with a good name. So he wrapped up two steaming chickens in lotus leaves, walked quickly to Ma's house on Ma's street, and asked Xiu Cai to name the chickens. Ma Xiu Cai tasted the chicken, asked about the practice, the side taste while chanting, chanting out: "a shake in the heat of the flesh and bones, the fragrance of the nose is even attacking people; caused the old man to stretch out his fingers, into the mouth and warm long to stay in the Jin." Poetry into chanting, blurted out: "good a five spice off the bone steak chicken ah!" Jia Jiancai in the second year, i.e. 1693, put the steak chicken to the Lantern Festival to sell, sales opened up, reputation. From then on, the city of Texas, roasted chicken, steak chicken with the same production and marketing situation, continued for a number of years.
The footsteps of the times into the twentieth century, with the opening of the Jinpu Railway and the Shide Railway, Dezhou steak chicken business has entered a period of prosperity, presenting a "hundred competing" scene. The shopkeepers inherited the skills and secretly "stole" the skills from each other for the sake of their own prosperous business, which objectively contributed to the great improvement of the steak chicken production skills. At this time, most of the chicken stores are concentrated in front of the railway station square, appearing store by store, stalls even stalls, scattered. The aroma from the street was mouth-watering. This period of steak chicken heirloom, the main representative of the "Bao Lan Zhai" steak chicken store Hou Baoqing and "De Shun Zhai" steak chicken store Han Shigong, as well as Zhang, Cui, Duanmu five (all of which are the city of Texas) inherited the Jia, Xu two families of the production of the main points. Han Shigong is a man of few words, thinking about the processing technology of the buyer and seller. He in practice to find out and summarize the experience of predecessors in the production of roasted chicken, grilled chicken, improved the process, increased the ingredients, and in the chicken wash and cooking and frying, especially the smothering up and down a lot of effort. At first, he himself, and in the middle of the cooperation with Wu Qinghai, Cui Jinlu opened a steak chicken store called "De Shun Zhai". Finally and Zhang Jintang, Zhang Jingui, Duanmu Zhaorong ran a four store called the "center of the fast", a few people to cooperate and learn from each other's skills, abandon the roasted chicken, specializing in grilled chicken, grilled chicken for the further development of the art of laying a solid foundation for the role of the previous and the next. At this time, due to the train access, sales expanded to the Northeast, Central Plains and South China, with annual sales reaching 300,000 units. At this time, the steak chicken has been five incense off the bone, color, aroma, taste, shape, ware, have embarked on the road of seeking beauty, seeking new, seeking high. The reputation of the Dezhou pickled chicken, has been called in the Chinese land, where the car passes by Dezhou, is bound to get off to buy a or a bushel of pickled chicken to bring home to the family to share, or gifts to friends and relatives.
"A singing rooster world white." People's Republic of China **** and the establishment of the country, to the chicken industry has brought new life, chicken store developed to more than 30, the annual sales of more than 400,000 chicken. Its successive emergence of the "Deshun Zhai", "Baolan Zhai", "Sheng Lan Zhai", "Fushun Zhai", "Center Zhai". "Center Zhai" and other store name. In the early years of the founding of the country, steak chicken industry embarked on the road of cooperation. By more than two dozen steak chicken heirloom composed of Texas steak chicken joint venture, and then set up a station selling department in the station specializing in steak chicken.
In 1956, the chicken heirlooms along with the food industry "step by step" into the door of the state-run enterprises, these times the chicken heirlooms also brought their skills into the company. The leaders of the company valued this group of skilled and skillful heirs of Texas Steak Chicken, and improved their enthusiasm and the full play of their wisdom. They contributed their skills to each other and brought the strengths of a hundred techniques into one, so that this authentic product was continuously developed under the attention and protection of the state-run food company. In the same year, the first "National Food Exhibition" was held in Beijing, the capital after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the Dezhou Five-Spice Skinless Steak Chicken took pride of place at the meeting. The heir to the Dezhou chicken, the company's chicken technician Zhang Shulin, Cui Changqing showed their skills on the spot, pouring out their art, and a beautiful, fresh and fragrant chicken was displayed in front of the people. The color of the chicken was yellow and red, which aroused the appetite of the onlookers, and once tasted, the flavor was unspeakable. The press and gourmets praised Texas Grilled Chicken as "The First Chicken of China". The material warmth sound far, "Texas Grilled Chicken world first" praise also came up.
4.3 Statement 2
Wang Mingkui (1874-1944) is the founder of the steak chicken. Wang Mingkui, a native of Yueya Bay Village in Yucheng County (now part of Yucheng City), and the founder of Yucheng's "Five-Spice Bone-shedding Steak Chicken," began cooking steak chicken in 1891 to make a living. One day, Wang Mingkui cooked chicken for more than the specified time, the chicken had collapsed, and the legs of the chicken were hand-held, separating the flesh from the bones. He acted on the opportunity and named it "Bone-shedding Steak Chicken" and sold it in the market, which was sold out in a flash. After that, he asked an old Chinese medicine, the use of cloves, cinnamon, peppercorns, dashi, cumin, etc. as seasoning, the production of steak chicken, five flavors overflowing aroma, so it is known as "five spices off the bone steak chicken". The "Five Spice Bone-shedding Steak Chicken" is not only tasty and fat, but also has the function of health maintenance and healing, which is favored by diners. The Wang family successively opened steak chicken stores in Yucheng Railway Station, Jinan City, Zhanhua County, Lijin County and other places. Later, some Yucheng people set up store near the well-developed Dezhou Railway Station and followed Wang Mingkui's example of making "five-spice boneless grilled chicken", which became famous nationwide as "Dezhou grilled chicken".
As early as the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Dezhou chicken was classified as a tribute from Shandong Province and sent to the palace for the emperor and queen and the royal family to enjoy.
In the 1950s, the vice-chairman Song Qingling, on her way back to Beijing from Shanghai, stopped several times in Dezhou to buy Dezhou chicken to give to Chairman Mao Zedong as a token of her respect. Dezhou grilled chicken is thus famous throughout the country, exported overseas, doubly favored by Chinese and foreigners, where the taste of the person who did not applaud, known as "the world's first chicken".