Sheep keel - a sheep vertebrae with tenderloin and spinal cord, so named because it resembles a scorpion.

There are also those called "Sheep Jiezi".

The "sheep scorpion" is well known in Beijing, which is the complete sheep spine from the neck to the tip of the tail. When merchants in Beijing and its surrounding areas sell mutton, they cut off the meat and sell it in parts. The prices of different parts vary. The remaining bones are removed and the limbs are called "stick bones". The complete vertebra is shaped like a scorpion, hence the name "sheep scorpion". Sheep and scorpions are cheap. After being chopped and stewed, the soup is extremely delicious. There is not much meat on the bones, so it is a relatively affordable food.

Since the mid-1990s, the custom of eating sheep and scorpions has emerged in Beijing’s restaurants, and it remains popular today. This has led to a textual problem, that is, most restaurants mistakenly write "sheep and scorpion" as "sheep and scorpion". The pronunciation and meaning of the word "Jie" are very different from the word "Scorpion". Scorpion is an arthropod with a pair of pincers and four pairs of legs. Jie, the sound is jié, Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica·Beast One·Sheep": "Jie sheep are castrated on the day of castration." The so-called "Jie sheep" are castrated male sheep. Those who mistakenly wrote "Sheep Scorpion" as "Sheep Jie Zi" probably thought that things related to sheep should naturally use the radical "sheep", but did not know that the name was related to scorpion, so they misrepresented it.

There are many opinions about "sheep scorpion". Based on what I have seen and eaten, the sheep keel section by section looks like a "Y" character when viewed from a cross section, and the "Ya" There is a small fork below the "" shape, which is the flamboyant shape of the scorpion, hence the name "sheep scorpion". It is reported that Shanghai's influential publication "Biaowenqiaozi" once wrote an article titled "Typos on the Streets of Beijing" to criticize many stores for mistakenly writing "Sheep Scorpion" as "Sheep Jiezi".

It’s a pity that the store owners don’t take it seriously, or don’t buy it at all! From the online engine search, we can find that the frequency of use of "Sheep Jiezi" has obviously exceeded that of "Sheep Scorpion". "Jiezi" and others are very convincing: "Sheep Jie is the keel of a sheep, shaped like a wedge, and its meat is the essence of the sheep. It was once a favorite food of the Jie and Mongolian people, and Genghis Khan, a generation of genius, especially liked it." Gongzugong said. , my mother-in-law said, the advertising that does everything is really dumbfounding. Even Genghis Khan was pulled out to show it to the public. Why would it matter if it were replaced by another one? !