Su Dongpo invented Dongpo pork, Dongpo tofu, Dongpo soup, Dongpo cake and other delicious dishes. Su Dongpo was a famous writer in the Song Dynasty. At that time, there was a popular saying in the Song Dynasty called "child prodigy". As long as a child in the family was very smart, he could be called a "child prodigy". Su Dongpo grew up with this title, but he was indeed very talented. During the general examination, the article was written very well, and the examiner at that time was Ouyang Xiu. Ou Xiuyang admired Su Dongpo's articles so much that he even coined an idiom to praise him: "get ahead". Later, the articles he wrote in the college entrance examination were also sought after.

It is a pity that Wang Anshi, who was very powerful at the time, was offended. At that time, Wang Anshi advocated the new law, but Su Shi did not agree. On the contrary, Su Shi wrote all the memorials to criticize Wang Anshi. Wang Anshi was very proud at that time. At the peak of his life, how dare you, a little Su Dongpo, to go against me? So Su Dongpo was demoted from Beijing and took up a post in Huangzhou. So Su Dongpo changed from a politician to a gourmet. Although Su Dongpo was demoted to Huangzhou, he never thought about the people and did many good things. People were extremely grateful to him at that time.

On New Years and holidays, I give him ingredients, of which pork is the most important. Pork was extremely unpopular in the Song Dynasty, but the people were relatively poor, so pork was already relatively good to them. At that time, the mainstream meat in the Song Dynasty was mainly mutton, and pork tasted extremely bad. Mutton was relatively expensive at the time, and Su Dongpo was not that rich. With so much pork sent by the people, he wondered if he could improve it, so Dongpo Pork appeared. Dongpo Rou not only solves its own problems, but also solves some people's problems.

From then on, Su Dongpo never repeated his journey of inventing delicious food. Later, Dongpo tofu, Dongpo soup, Dongpo cake and other delicacies were invented. In fact, we can see that the ingredients for these delicacies invented by Su Dongpo are actually relatively cheap, and they are all ingredients from ordinary people's homes. So I personally think that Su Dongpo invented these delicacies for two reasons. One is to make people eat more comfortably, and the other is to make people poor.