Taiyuan snack "Mind" was invented by Fu Shan, a famous scholar and physician in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. It is a medicated food and has a nourishing effect on human body. Taiyuan snack "Brain", also known as "Bazhen Soup", is made up of Astragalus membranaceus, stewed noodles, lotus seeds, mutton, long yam, yellow wine, distiller's grains and sheep's tail oil, with pickled leeks as the introduction.

In the early years, Taiyuan people got up before dawn to eat their brains, which is also called "catching their brains" and needed to hang lanterns for lighting. Therefore, a paper lantern was hung in front of the hotel that manages brains as a sign. Outside Taiyuan, you may never find this special snack again.

"Mind" has the most say than Mr. Fu Shanxian.

Fu Tianxi, the sixth ancestor, was a professor at Linquan Wangfu; Great-grandfather Fu Chaoxuan also became the son-in-law of Ninghua Wangfu; Father Fu Zhimo is also a tribute student. In such a eunuch family and scholarly family, Fu Shan's feelings about the accommodation of officials and people in the Ming Dynasty must be profound.

Therefore, when his mother was ill, Fu Shan could learn from the past and bring forth the new, and create a health-preserving delicacy of "having the same name but close pulse, and combining therapy with food" with local specialties. His mother often drank this soup, so there are four in 80 people who live a long life.