At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang crusaded against Chen Youliang on Poyang Lake, but was defeated and lost his army. Zhu Yuanzhang and his men retreated to the west. It was a year of great drought in Jiangxi Province and summer, and the soldiers were hungry and thirsty, and refused to move forward. Zhu Yuanzhang in a hurry to have a plan, shouted: "in front of the Yuanzhou province, I remember there is a spring ridge, spring as a pearl Chung, water sweet like alcohol, why do not we go." The generals heard that there is water, immediately came to the spirit, a gas rushed to the spring ridge, but there is no spring. Generals feel cheated, surrounded Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang can do nothing, anxious just stomping feet. Between this stomping, stomped out a few pits, and indeed there are a few strands of spring water from the pits like pearls, a few moments into the pool. Zhu Yuanzhang rejoiced, bowed to the sky, long shouted: "God help me also." When the generals finished drinking, Zhu Yuanzhang asked people to bring pen and ink, inscribed two words: pearl spring. This is one of the eight scenes of Yichun, "South Pond Pearl" legend.

Zhu Yuanzhang rate of the remnants of the army later fled to a village, a kind villager will be the only home of a chicken killed, to Zhu Yuanzhang and others stew to quench their thirst, Zhu Yuanzhang was very touched. Zhu Yuanzhang was very touched. After learning that the whole village was surnamed Chen, Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed and said that his maternal uncle back home in Fengyang was also surnamed Chen, and in that case, they were still aunt cousins! From then on, both sides affectionately called each other "Lao Cousin". "Jiangxi old table" has come from a statement, the old table chicken soup has also become a Jiangxi an original flavor of the farm dishes and famous.