It is indeed true. Before Zhu Yuanzhang became the king of the Ming Dynasty, he was a small businessman specializing in selling black plums on the street.

As for the origin of this sour plum soup, Zhu Yuanzhang happened to discover it while selling black plums.

The specific reason is that in that era of war and chaos, the people often did not have enough to eat, and over time they suffered from hunger problems, and Zhu Yuanzhang was among this group.

One day, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was dizzy from hunger, was struggling to get some black plums to sell in order to make a living. As soon as he entered the warehouse, he smelled the sweet and sour aroma, and he suddenly felt very refreshed.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a look at the natural aroma of black plums, and he had a plan in mind. He used black plums as the main ingredient, added hawthorn licorice and other auxiliary ingredients, and heated water to cook them together, and finally cooked a pot of sweet and sour food.

Delicious sour plum soup.

This soup tasted very good, which not only helped Zhu Yuanzhang fill his stomach, but also made him famous for researching this soup, and earned him a lot of silver to use as start-up capital for the subsequent uprising against the Yuan Dynasty.

Besides, although this roast duck was not developed by Zhu Yuanzhang himself, it is closely related to him.

Zhu Yuanzhang liked to eat duck meat when he was urinating. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he often ordered the imperial chefs in the palace to make various delicacies with duck meat. He ate them all, whether they were steamed, boiled or stir-fried.

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But there were only a few ways to cook the duck. Over time, Zhu Yuanzhang got tired of eating it.

Upon seeing this, the imperial chef privately tried various new cooking methods to cook the duck. Gradually, he tried more and more, and found that the duck cooked over charcoal fire was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, with fresh and smooth meat, and tasted better.

It is a mouth-watering, fragrant fragrance.

After this delicacy was presented to Zhu Yuanzhang for enjoyment, it was greatly appreciated. It was also named roast duck by Zhu Yuanzhang because of its unique roasting technique.