According to Laoting County Records, in 1897, Liu Jun and his grandfather Liu Chong, who moved from Ligezhuang, a seaside village in Laoting County, to Nanguan, the county seat, hung up the plaque of "Liuji Roast Chicken Shop" and started their business. 1905 business is booming. At that time, Liu Tan, who was a second-class bodyguard with a knife beside Emperor Guangxu, returned to his hometown to enjoy Liu Ji's roast chicken. Later, the model was changed to put one wing of the white striped chicken through the knife edge of the chicken neck and stick out the chicken mouth, so that the head and neck of the chicken clung to the back of the chicken with chicken wings, and the other chicken wings naturally folded, and then the chicken feet were rolled up and folded into the abdominal cavity, and then put into the pot of ancestral broth, and 28 kinds of precious Chinese herbal medicines were added, and the cooked and smoked roast chicken was put there, just like a naked chicken without feathers. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/906, Liu Tan, who had entered the Summer Palace as the personal bodyguard of Empress Dowager Cixi, went back to his hometown to visit his mother, and brought dozens of pieces back to Beijing to be dedicated to Empress Dowager Cixi and other princes. Empress Dowager Cixi was very happy when she saw Liu Ji's roast chicken presented by Liu Tan and tasted it. She was named "Liu Mei Roast Chicken".
As a famous food in northern China, Liu Mei roast chicken is sold in Beijing, Tianjin, Tang, Qin and Northeast China (it has been sold to all provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China 18). Its unique beauty of color, fragrance, taste and shape, especially created the precedent of roast chicken modeling in China (modeling has been patented by the state), completely broke the problem of two claws and one wing stuck and the neck drooping, and promoted the development of whole chicken modeling technology in roast chicken industry in China.
As a delicious food, Liu Mei roast chicken has the functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach, refreshing and strengthening the body. As a topic of food culture, it has enriched its profound connotation and spread for a hundred years, which is really rare. After the reform and opening up, with the continuous development of Liu Mei industry, it has promoted the adjustment of rural agricultural industrialization structure. As a key leading enterprise of agricultural industrialization at the provincial level, it drives more than 2,000 farms (households) every year, which can make them get 8 million yuan of economic benefits, promote the development of harmonious rural areas, enrich consumers' vegetables and become delicious food on consumers' tables.