Composition of Yangzhou Old Goose
There is another touching story about the origin of Qin Lan Goose. Words. In the Song Dynasty, a great official named Zhu Xun appeared in Qin Lan. He was an assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry. At that time, he and his concubine Liu had a son named Shouchang. Later, somehow, when Zhu Shouchang was young, he was abandoned by Liu and his mother and son separated for 50 years. When Zhu Shouchang became an adult, he was proud of his official career and consulted doctors for officials. At this time, he remembered three years of living with his abandoned mother. Because he longs for his mother, he doesn't think about tea and rice, and his health goes from bad to worse. His attendants recalled how Shouchang lived with his mother and herded geese when he was young. The waiters painstakingly studied and made a cooked goose with salt water. After Zhu Shouchang finished eating, his appetite increased greatly and his body gradually recovered. However, the feeling of missing my mother has not diminished. In the end, Zhu Shouchang abandoned his post to find his mother. After suffering, mother and son finally reunited. After the reunion dinner, Zhu Shouchang ordered his attendants to cook a special red roast goose every day to enjoy with his mother. Because he is from Qin Lan, he named this kind of red roast goose Qin Lan red roast goose. Thousands of years have passed, although the goose-making technology has not changed much, today people are used to calling it Qin Lan Old Goose. Qin Lan old goose belongs to Anhui cuisine, and its production technology has been passed down for thousands of years. Tianchang in Anhui Province is famous for its rotten meat and long aftertaste. There are only a handful of people who can be authentic now.