The story of eating fish According to historical records such as Hanshu and Jin Shu, "In the eighth year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (239 BC), the river fish was big, and Liu Xiang thought that fish was close to evil"; "In May of the fourth year of Jiaping in Qi Weiwang (AD 252), there were fish in the ordnance warehouse, and this fish was evil." The meaning of the word "fish evil" includes both good luck and bad luck. The ancients attached some abnormal phenomena of fish to something, which can be said to add a layer of mystery to fish. ? As a dietary custom, fish is regarded as a mascot, such as "Mingtai Fish" eaten by Korean compatriots in Northeast China every time they go to Tomb-Sweeping Day. "Mingtai" was originally the name of an old Korean farmer. It is said that there has been a serious drought in the northeast coastal area. An old farmer named Park Ming-tai led the villagers to catch a kind of marine fish to satisfy their hunger and survive the famine. This fish is black and a foot long. It can be stored after being soaked in salt water and dried. There is a fish dish "Yuanyang fish" in Shandong cuisine, which is steamed with white mandarin fish and red fish. Salty, fragrant, fresh, red and white, with attractive color. This dish is a famous dish of Confucius in Qufu. Often used as the main course of a wedding banquet, it symbolizes the love of newlyweds and never separates them. ? There are also many popular stories about fish in southern China. Suzhou Embroidery "Suzhou Embroidery" A popular fish pattern "Fish Playing Lotus" in Jiangsu Province is an auspicious picture that women like to embroider for their husbands or lovers. Rural families in northern Jiangsu hang a fish on the scale hook every year on Lunar New Year's Eve, and the local dialects "scale", "leftover", "fish" and "surplus" are homophonic; "There are fish (surplus) on the scale, and there are fish every year" has become a popular proverb.

According to legend, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", served as the magistrate of Changsha, then resigned and returned to his hometown. Just in time for the winter solstice, he saw that the people in Nanyang were hungry and cold, and their ears were frostbitten. At that time, typhoid fever was prevalent and many people died. Zhang Zhongjing summed up the clinical practice of the Han Dynasty for more than 300 years, so he set up a medical shed in the local area and set up a cauldron. He made mutton, pepper and herbs for dispelling cold and warming up into ear-shaped dough bags, cooked them and gave them to the poor together with soup and food. People eat from the solstice of winter to New Year's Eve, fighting typhoid fever and curing frozen ears. Since then, villagers and future generations have imitated it, calling it "jiaozi Ear" or "jiaozi", and some places called it "flat food" or "instant noodle jiaozi". After gradually forming a custom, you can't help eating jiaozi on holidays. 1400 years of history has made jiaozi take root in the hearts of ordinary people. Jiaozi gradually became the spokesman of China's diet.

The first person to eat crab

According to legend, thousands of years ago, there was a fierce beetle with eight legs and two claws in the rivers and lakes. Not only stealing rice, but also catching people with claws, so it is called "catching people and insects". Later, Dayu went to the south of the Yangtze River to control water and sent a strong man, Plo, to supervise the work, which seriously hindered the project. The PLO figured out a way to dig a trench around the city and fill it with boiling water. People and bugs came, fell into the ditch and burned to death. The scalded insects were flushed red and gave off an attractive fragrance. The plo cracked its shell curiously, and the smell became stronger. I got the nerve to take a bite, but it tasted delicious, better than anything else, so fear of pests became a household name. In order to thank Plough for being the first in the world, we added the word "worm" under the word "Xie", which means that Plough conquered the worm and was the first person to eat crabs in the world.

The story of "eating tofu": In the old society, tofu shops were mostly husband and wife shops. The proprietress has eaten too much tofu, and her skin is tender and white, which is delicious. At the same time, in order to attract customers, she is a bit coquettish, which leads men to flirt with the proprietress in the name of "eating tofu". So the jealous wives said discontentedly, "Did you eat tofu again today?" Scold her husband. Later, "eating tofu" became synonymous with men and frivolous women.