Taking "brain" as the food name began at the end of14th century (the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty). If there is a saying of "grasping a bowl of brains" in the Water Margin, it can be seen that there were restaurants selling brains in society at that time. At that time, we didn't know what materials to use and how to do it.
Ohara's idea was conceived by Mr Boshan. Fu was born in the west village in the northern suburb of Taiyuan. He is a good doctor, and people call him a "magic doctor". He is the author of Fu's Gynecology and other medical books. The famous medicine "Erxian Pill" in Daningtang Pharmacy of Taiyuan City. "Hehe Pill" was originally prepared with Mr. Fu Shan's prescription.
Fu Shan also prepared two kinds of medicinal materials in his brain-Radix Astragali and Rhizoma Alpiniae Officinalis, which is the difference between his brain and other diets.
Astragalus is sweet and warm. Its function is to replenish the spleen and stomach, triple energizer and strengthen the lung, which is most effective for people with physical weakness. Produced in Mianshan, Shanxi, it is called Mianqi, which is pungent and hot. Has the effects of warming middle warmer, lowering qi and promoting digestion. Doctors treat stomach diseases with ginger for external cold and dried ginger for internal cold. Alpinia officinarum produced in Gaozhou (formerly Maoming, Guangdong) has the best quality and is called Alpinia officinarum. Fu Shan added these two herbs to prevent spleen deficiency and stomach cold.
The brain can be said to be a tonic Unfortunately, the mind must be in the morning, the sooner the better; Restaurants used to hang lanterns in the morning to sell their brains. For diners, this is equivalent to a morning exercise, which has both nourishing and exercise effects, killing two birds with one stone, which is also the main purpose of Fu Shan's invention. Due to the spread, the brain quotient expanded to Guisui (now Hohhot, Inner Mongolia).
On the surface, the mind is just a few pieces of mutton soaked in a bowl of paste soup that is neither thick nor light. Therefore, some people call it "brain soup". In fact, there are many brain ingredients, including mutton, sheep marrow, distiller's grains, Huimian Noodles (fried noodles), lotus root, long yam, plus astragalus and galangal, which are called Bazhen sausage. Eat it with pickled leeks, just like medicine.
Mutton is sweet and hot, which has the function of tonifying deficiency and appetizing. Zhang Zhongjing, a self-doctor, used it to treat cold hernia, abdominal pain and postpartum abdominal discomfort precisely because it can warm the spleen and slow down the middle warmer. Mutton, with lotus root for clearing heat and resolving phlegm and yam for invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, becomes a mellow and delicious medicinal bait (Mr. Fu Shan likes to use drugs to solve problems, which means mixing drugs with food to get rid of diseases and preserve health).
Mr. Fu Shan is good at calligraphy, and some people praised him as the first writer in the early Qing Dynasty. He wrote a plaque with three characters of "He Qing Yuan" for running a brain-dead restaurant, and wrote a line of "Brainstorm" on top of the three characters. Fu Shan is a patriot with strong patriotic thoughts. He loved the Ming Dynasty with Zhu Yuanzhang as the orthodox, and opposed the emperors of the Qing Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty (especially the Qing Dynasty). The name of his soul is to let everyone cut off Qingyuan's heart and let people come with lanterns before dawn.
Qinghe Garden was operated by many companies in Yangqu Hui more than 100 years ago, and its address is Nancang Street, Chengnan District, Taiyuan City. After People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded, it expanded its business and moved to its new address today-Yiqiaotou Street. Every year after the National Day, the brain will be listed, and many people come for big business.
Qiaotou Street and Several Scenes
Jinyang, an ancient city that stood in Taiyuan for more than 1000 years, was destroyed by soldiers who conquered the Northern Han Dynasty in the Song Dynasty. In the past three years, Pan Mei was placed in Tang Ming Town, a city in Sanchakou, 35 miles north of Jinyang Old Town, instead of building a new city, which was called Taiyuan New City or Song Taiyuan City in history. Today, the intersection of the middle section of Qiaotou Street and Haizibian is the former site of the moat bridge outside "Chaoximen" in Taiyuan City in Song Dynasty. The name of Qiaotou Street also comes from this.
Today, Qiaotou Street starts from Wuyi Road in the east and reaches the junction of Liuxiang and Liuxiang South Road in the west, which is a line with Chonglou Street. It is formed by merging the original Qiaotou Street and Hongshi Street. When it comes to Qiaotou Street, people will think of Taiyuan's famous local flavors: pig brain in Qinghe Garden, sauce elbow flower in Liuweizhai and mutton jiaozi in Li Jianyi.
The "Qingheyuan" Huimin Hotel with a history of more than 300 years is located on the north side of the middle section of Qiaotou Street. Known for its unique flavor-brain, it is one of the top ten famous foods in Taiyuan. Brain, whose real name is "Babaochang", is a nourishing food carefully prepared by Mr. Fu Shan, a noble, famous scholar and good doctor in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. It is said that after losing his wife in middle age, Fu Shan never continued to serve his mother. His mother is old and weak, lying in a hospital bed. In order to make mother live longer, Fu Shan has developed "Bazhen Soup" with eight kinds of medicinal materials and foods such as fat mutton, lotus root, yam, astragalus root, galangal, Huimian Noodles, yellow wine and distiller's grains as raw materials as breakfast and tonic for the elderly in winter. After a winter of careful treatment and taking, his mother was completely cured and refreshed.
A few days later, the Qing army entered the Central Plains, and Fu Shan was determined to perish from the Ming Dynasty, strictly rejecting the senior officials of the Qing Dynasty. In order to express his dissatisfaction with the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, he changed the name of Bazhen Tang to remember, taught the recipe and making method to a restaurant named Duo in Taiyuan, and inscribed a plaque for this restaurant, named "Qingheyuan". The good intention of his doing this is that the hotel monopolized the mind and miscellaneous things in the name of the dynasty established by the Qing and Yuan minorities. Once read together, it becomes "the heart is mixed and cuts the Qing Dynasty" and becomes a curse to the rulers of the Qing Dynasty. Sure enough, as Fu Shan expected, the lamb chops in this hotel have become a minor celebrity. Coupled with the unique flavor of mountain delicacies and sesame hat boxes connected with brain beads, the business was booming for a while and its reputation spread to Sanjin, so that "cutting the heart and clearing the harmony" became the mantra of people praising this restaurant, which has been in operation for 300 years. It should be noted that the "Qinghe Garden" was located on the west side of the middle section of Nancang Lane, and it was moved to this site during the Republic of China.
Two or three hundred meters to the west of Qingheyuan, there is an Islamic-style middle-rise building, which is a Muslim Kanyili restaurant. It is famous in Jinyang for its long-standing product mutton steamed dumplings. According to the comments of food experts, jiaozi is one of the top ten famous foods in Taiyuan because of its delicious shape, thin skin and tender stuffing, and fat but not greasy. There is a local saying that has been circulating for decades: "If you want to buy something for Kaihua Temple, you must eat jiaozi to show your recognition of your own strength", so you can realize its high popularity and great influence.
Yili was founded on 1930 by an Islamic believer named Anhai. Because Iraq worships "God" and thinks that he is the "only master" who creates all things in the world, it starts from the doctrine of "recognizing the only Lord and infinite main force" and takes the name of "recognizing its own strength". Over the past 60 years, Zhunli has won the trust of Taiyuan people with its sincere and high-quality service, and its business is thriving and enduring.
Twenty or thirty meters to the west, at the west exit of Qiaotou Street, is the "Liuweizhai" sauce meat shop that tastes three pounds and smells fragrant. The store was originally named "Fuji Liuweizhai Sauce Elbow Chicken and Duck Store" and officially opened around 1942. It was founded by three masters from Beijing Tianfu Lou Jiang Elbow Store, Tianfu Hao Jiang Elbow Chicken and Duck Store, Tianjin Tianshenghao Butcher Store and an apprentice from Shijiazhuang. According to reports, Beijing Tianfu sauce elbow shop has a history of more than 260 years, and it was opened as early as the early years of Qianlong. The sauce elbow flower has become one of the royal meals of the imperial concubine of the palace, and it is worth a hundred times. So that the royal family must give Tianfu a waist tag when entering the palace, and the palace will not check it. When Liuweizhai in Taiyuan was founded, it was in the period of Japanese occupation, the market was chaotic, the economy was depressed, and many shops were on the verge of bankruptcy. However, with its exquisite skills and unique flavor, the store won the favor of Taiyuan people, survived the stormy predicament, and finally took root and survived.
Liuweizhai sauced meat is delicious. "Look at the plaid, smell the plaid, and eat the plaid." Known as "fat but not greasy, thin but not firewood, light and tasteful, fragrant and mellow", Sanjin has become a leader in Taiyuan's famous food.
As the old saying goes, "Food is the most important thing for people", and as the new saying goes, "Food takes taste first". There are ten famous foods with Taiyuan flavor, and Qiaotou Street is the third. Every friend who has set foot in Taiyuan, when you step into the ancient city of Taiyuan, are you interested in being a gourmet? Then don't forget Qiaotou Street here, where you can taste the unique soul in the world, mixed sauced meat and steamed dumplings with outstanding flavor. Let you open your eyes, feast your eyes and linger.