The Four Great Gods of Cookery in China are Peng Zu, Zhan Wang, Yi Ya and Yi Yin, with Yi Yin being the first of the Four Gods of Cookery.

1, Peng Zu

Peng Zu about the introduction of both health and longevity, but in addition, he also has unique skills in the field of cooking, which is why he is known as the originator of cooking. Pengzu, surnamed Qian Clang, was the eighth generation grandson of the Yellow Emperor. Peng Zu is the god of longevity. According to legend, he once lived in seclusion under the Manting Peak of Wuyi Mountain, drinking waterfalls and reclining to maintain his health, and he lived to be a hundred years old. His two sons, one Peng Wu and the other Peng Yi, came to settle in this mountain, so the mountain was named Wuyi Mountain. They left Wuyi Mountain many valuable health care catering and food and health wealth.

Peng Zu, who cured Emperor Yao's anorexia by making flavorful pheasant soup, was appointed to Dapeng (present-day Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province). Qu Yuan wrote in "Chu Rhetoric - Heavenly Questions": "Peng Clang poured pheasants, how did the emperor enjoy them? Receiving life forever more, how long will the husband last?" Wang Yi, an expert on Chu Rhetoric in the Han Dynasty, said, "Peng Clang was also known as Peng Zu. Good and flavor, good pouring pheasant soup, can serve emperor yao, emperor yao beautiful and entertained food also." Hong Xingzu of the Song Dynasty supplemented: "Peng Zu surnamed Qian name clang, Emperor Zhuan Xu Xuan grandson, good gas, can adjust the tripod, into the pheasant soup in Yao, sealed in Pengcheng."

2, easy teeth

History records that easy teeth to the Duke of Qi Huan cooking, once the Duke of Huan said to easy teeth: "I tasted all the world's delicacies, the only thing that I did not eat human flesh, but for the regrettable", the Duke of Huan, the words this is a thoughtless joke, and easy teeth but this in mind, want to win the heart of the Duke of Huan. So his 4-year-old son made a soup, offered to the Duke of Qi Huan taste, the Duke of Qi Huan feel fresh and delicious, then asked Yi Ya: "This is what meat?" Yi Ya cried and said it was his own son's meat. In order to satisfy the king's request, Yi Ya had to cook his own son, which was inhumane, and in this way, Yi Ya was even more difficult to become the ancestor of Chinese cooks.

3, Yi Yin

Yi Yin is the history of the first to negative tripod chopping board adjust the five flavors and ZuoTianZi governance of the country's outstanding cook. He founded the "five flavors and harmony" and "fire theory", is still the unchanging rules of Chinese cooking. He "taught the people to harmonize the five flavors, the creation of the Chinese cut cooking techniques, open the river of food for generations to come", in the history of Chinese culinary culture occupies an important position, by the Chinese culinary industry as "the saint of cooking", "the originator of cooking! He was honored by the Chinese culinary community as the "Sage of Cooking", "the originator of cooking" and "Sage of Kitchen".

Yi Yin's experience from the kitchen into the Zai, from the historical records can be seen, Yi Yin was first a slave, young foster in the house of the cook, to learn the art of cooking, grew up to become a master of cooking. After he grew up, he became a master of cooking. He was able to understand the way of governing the country from cooking, and he became a wise man in the eyes of Shang Tang by talking about soup and flavor, and was appointed as a minister with great influence. There are a lot of words comparing Yi Yin to a skillful cook. "Yi Yin tormented" (Meixian's "Seven Hair"), "Yi Gong harmonized" (Prince Zhaoming of Liang's "Seven Deeds"), "Yi Yin carried the tripod" (The Records of the Grand Historian). "Yi Yin is good at cutting and cooking" (Book of Han), and so on.

In the thousands of years of development of cooking technology in China, there have been a lot of skilled celebrities, such as the legendary Peng Clang in the era of Emperor Yao, the Zhou Dynasty's Taigong Luwang, the Spring and Autumn Period's Yi Ya, etc. These people have their own specialties, and they are also very good at cooking. All of these people had their own specialties, and all of them played a great role in promoting the development of cooking techniques. Yi Yin was unique in his cooking techniques and his culinary theories. Cooking is just one of the many skills of Yi Yin. Yi Yin is the saint of Chinese cooking. Nowadays, Chinese culinary colleagues in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and other places in China also worship Yiyin as China's "Kitchen Sage", "the saint of cooking".

Expanded Information:

Iyin is also the most famous Kitchen God Chancellor in history, and is the first wise prime minister in Chinese history documented by history books, who aided Shang Tang in the extinction of the Xia Dynasty and the end of Xia Jie's brutal rule. Under his efforts, the state apparatus and political system of the early Shang Dynasty were perfected, the economy and culture developed greatly, and the society was relatively stable. Yi Yin was also a great pharmacist in the history of traditional Chinese medicine in China, as well as a folk god of cooking. After his death, he was buried in Nanbo (now in Yucheng County, Shangqiu City), which has a history of about 3,600 years.

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