Farewell my concubine dish became famous, there are two ways of saying: one said that the battle of Chu and Han, Xiang Yu was Liu Bang siege Gaixia (Anhui Province), in all sides of the Chu song, the beauty of Yu Ji for the Chu king Xiang Yu to relieve the sorrows of the worry, with turtle and chickens as raw materials, cooking this dish. Xiang Yu after eating interest, the spirit of hair. After not spread to the people, because the dish out of the time of the king's Farewell to the concubine, so the name "Farewell to the concubine".
Another said, this dish was named for the use of symbols and harmonic rhetorical techniques, "a turtle such as wearing a robe upward neck, symbolizing the king of Chu Xiang Yu. The whole picture contrasts strongly, sad and desolate, people a sad tears. And 'Ji' to take 'chicken' resonance, so that people see the chicken Si 'Ji', to see the Chu Ba Wang poor end of the road, but also see the wind and smoke of the Chu-Han dispute."