One, according to legend, during the Song Dynasty, there lived a pair of orphans and widows on the land of present-day Shaoyang, the man of the family died of illness early in life, and the mother painstakingly raised her own son. The mother sent her son to a temple in Yunshan to learn martial arts with monks in order for him to have a strong body. The training was very hard, but living with the monks meant that he had to be a vegetarian. The mother saw her son losing weight day by day and was very distressed. Looking for some meat dishes to send to improve the son's life, but afraid of the abbot of the temple does not allow, so all day moping. All day long sad thinking, but not a good way. One day, she returned from the market, see a family to kill a pig, a sudden thought, in a hurry to think of pig's blood added to the water inside the tofu, you can solve the meat craving, but also to avoid the Buddhist precepts. Immediately asked for pig's blood, buy water tofu home, the tofu mashed, mixed with pig's blood, and then pinch the tofu into a ball, hanging on the wood stove fumigation dry. From the outside, it looked like a black paste. The mother took this black stuff inside the temple to the monks and son to eat. The abbot was puzzled and asked what it was. The mother replied that it was made of dried tofu, and the abbot had no further objections. Monks and the mother's son ate this black paste things made of food, feel very delicious, every meal can eat a few more bowls of rice. This made practicing martial arts more energetic. So, the mother regularly sent this black paste to the temple inside the dishes for them to eat. Later, after the son came down from the mountain, he participated in the imperial court's martial arts examination, and won the martial arts scholar. It was then that the kind mother told everyone that her black paste was not only made of watery tofu, but also had pig's blood in it. However, no one blamed the kind mother. After the story spread, every family in Shaoyang began to make this black paste, and gave it a name called "blood poi". Because of its beautiful flavor, but also after eating can be high school scholar of the legend, so the folk through the generations, has been passed down to the present day.
Two, pig's blood meatballs is a beautiful dish invented by Chen Yuanliang, Chen Yuanliang love to eat pig's blood and tofu soup, but he built a fortress in the town of Huoxiangqiao, Longhui County, after the king of the village of Shuzhu Bai Shan avoided to see the white tofu, because Huoxiangqiao area dead people called sip tofu. One of the dishes in the period is white bean curd soup. It was also called "Sip White Tofu". He led his troops to war for fear of their troops dead, so they can not eat tofu, so he used pig's blood and tofu and then add some meat and stirred and stirred and made a round steelyard weight, and then put on the firewood on the grill to dry and cook to eat, so that the round steelyard weights made of the outside looks black oil is no longer white, cut open the inside is red, Hexiangqiao area white represents mourning red represents joy. So, he was so happy! When he put it in his mouth and ate it, it tasted better than pig's blood and tofu in soup! And it's better for storage! So, he named it Blood Poop. Now Wugang. Dongkou area is still called Blood Poop. Later, in honor of his invention, and because of its round shape. It was named after Chen Yuanliang's nickname Yuanzi (pronounced as "cotton" in the native language). It is now officially called pig's blood meatballs.
Third, the legend, related to another local traditional food - black rice. According to legend, after Yang Lulang, a general of the Yang family, was imprisoned, every time Yang Paifeng went to the prison to bring food to Lulang, he was eaten by the jailers. So Yang Pai Feng came up with the idea of steaming a pot of rice mixed with glutinous rice from a plant that was the color of black charcoal. And the next meal was to replace it with blood tofu which was black in appearance. Because of the black color, the jailer didn't dare to eat the rice delivered this time, and it was finally delivered to Liulang. The story was passed down to the local community, and in honor of the witty Yang Pai Feng, every year on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, the local community would hold a song contest and other festivities, which became known as the "Girl's Day". Kuro rice and blood tofu have been passed down as traditional food.