Scorpions need to be traced back to the Kangxi period. Mongolian prince Naiman once came back from hunting and passed by the backyard and smelled the fragrance. Let the servants inquire. It turned out that the new cook made sheep spines for the people. Lord Naiman tastes delicious. Then look at the shape of the spine. It looks like a scorpion. It was named "Sheep Scorpion" and was used as a family recipe, which was later spread to the people.

Scorpion is a delicious snack with good quality and low price. The main raw material is the most nutritious and delicious sheep keel-the complete sheep spine from the neck to the pointed tenderloin and spinal cord. Seen from the cross section, the sheep keel is in the shape of "Ya", and there is a small fork under the "Ya", which is the gorgeous shape of the scorpion, "Sheep Scorpion"

When Su Shi was demoted to Danzhou, he was very poor, so he could only spend a few pennies to buy the mutton spine stew that the butcher didn't want, which was named after it looked like a scorpion.

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Yá yáng xiē zi (hot pot of sheep spine) is a complete sheep spine with tenderloin and spinal cord. Because it looks like a scorpion, it is commonly known as mutton spine hotpot. Scorpions are low in fat, cholesterol, protein and calcium. Is easy to absorb, and has that effect of nourishing yin and tonify kidney, caring skin and strengthening yang. It is often used to make broth hotpot, which tastes delicious.

Sheep scorpion hot pot, a clear soup based on scorpions, has a history of more than 300 years in northern China. On the basis of the original clear soup, more than 30 kinds of natural Chinese herbal medicine spices such as pepper, pepper, lobster sauce, cinnamon, fennel, pepper, dried ginger, galangal, Amomum villosum, clove, kaempferia kaempferia, angelica dahurica, astragalus membranaceus, radix rehmanniae, fructus piperis longi and tsaoko are added to the soup.