According to legend, during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a small trough in Pinghu called "Xu Yuanyuan". A year's flood flooded the glutinous rice in the trough, and several domestic ducks just laid eggs next to the pile of glutinous rice. A few days later, the flood receded, the glutinous rice fermented, and more than a dozen duck eggs buried in it smelled mellow. Unfortunately, the owner kept it in distiller's grains, and it turned out to be a delicious food with unique taste. Later, during the Qianlong period, someone from Pinghu went to visit relatives in Chen Ge's hometown in Haining and brought a bad guy. It happened that Emperor Qianlong went down to Jiangnan and went to Chen Ge's hometown. When Ge Lao gave the emperor a banquet, he put a plate of rotten eggs. Dried dragons taste it, and its taste is endless. "I took care of Ge Lao, listed it as a tribute and gave Xu Yuanyuan a' gold medal'!" This is indeed a beautiful story, which skillfully improves the popularity and reputation of "Pinghu villain". However, after careful textual research, relevant people found that the story of Emperor Qianlong was fictitious, and there was also a gold medal, which was genuine and the gold medal of Panama World Expo. This shows that bad eggs are really good things.
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Pinghu rotten eggs are rich in nutrients, including protein, fat, multivitamins and trace elements such as calcium, phosphorus, iron and potassium. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it also has the effect of nourishing yin and clearing away lung heat, and can treat diaphragmatic fever, cough, sore throat, toothache, dysentery and so on. The production method of Pinghu villain is: wash fresh duck eggs one by one, put them in a big jar (jar is also acceptable), put a layer of duck eggs, sprinkle a layer of distiller's grains on them, then put another layer of eggs and distiller's grains, put them away, seal the jar with yellow mud, and marinate for 30 days to form a villain.