The origin of folk story tofu?

China is the hometown of tofu, and the earliest legend of making tofu is Liu An in the Western Han Dynasty. Then you know what? The following is what I share with you. Welcome to reading.

Tofu is said to have been created by Liu An, the king of Huainan in Han Dynasty, but it is not.

According to legend, in ancient times, people only ground beans into soybean milk to drink. There is a young couple who are kind and loving, but her mother-in-law is a little stingy and won't even let her daughter-in-law drink a bowl of soybean milk. The daughter-in-law is pregnant and doesn't want to eat anything next to her. She just wants to drink soybean milk, and her mouth is watering. One day, my mother-in-law went to her daughter's house to see her newborn grandson. As soon as she left, kannika nimtragol began to soak beans, grind bean juice and want to cook soybean milk. The soybean milk pot was boiling, and she was about to take a bowl, when suddenly footsteps came from the yard. Even if her mother-in-law came back to see her, she quickly picked up the pot and poured the soybean milk into the jar in the corner of the stove and covered it. When she walked out of the kitchen, it turned out that her husband had returned. Her fear was put down and she smiled and took her husband to drink soy milk. Who knows that when the lid of the can is opened, the soybean milk becomes a snow-white solid. The husband looked at it and said, "Don't tease me. How can this be soybean milk? "

It turns out that this jar of pickled vegetables has been pickled for many years, and there is still some brine in it. Soymilk becomes solid when poured in. The young couple took it out and looked at it carefully. It is as white as jade, tender as fat, tender and smooth at the entrance, and delicious. What's the name of this food? When they discuss it, they call it "teasing". "Tofu" and "tofu" are homophonic, and later generations did not know this allusion and mistakenly called "tofu" as "tofu".

The Folk Story of Tofu: Scarab Tofu

According to legend, in ancient times, there lived a Ma family on the hill beside Gaotang Lake, under Yaoshan Mountain in the east of Huainan City. Ma Laohan and his wife make a living by fishing, and their families are poor, often lacking clothes and food, and their lives are hard. Ma Laohan's wife Ma is very helpless. She often burns incense and prays in front of the kitchen god, asking for blessings, giving money and making money into treasure. The Kitchen God was upset by Ma's mother-in-law's nagging every day, so he said to her in a dream, "After you burn incense three times on the first day of the New Year tomorrow, you can have whatever you want, so that you can have a room full of gold and silver ..." Ma's mother-in-law was overjoyed and believed it. As soon as it cleared up, she lit incense sticks with clean hands, bowed down to the kitchen god and asked the gods for gold and silver in order to make a fortune.

As soon as the horse's words fell, she saw the house full of golden light. At home, pots and pans, big tables and small stools, pots and pans have become gold and silver, and even Ma Laohan and his son have become golden people, cold and speechless, laughing and affectionate. Mother-in-law Ma suddenly felt bad. She called her husband, but he was silent. She called her son, but he didn't speak. Ma Yuyan shouted, "I don't want gold, I don't want silver, I just want the old man and my son. But no matter how she cried and shouted, her son and the old man could not recover. Ma Yuyan cried for three days and nights, and her eyes were bleeding. The sad cry touched the little white dragon. Xiaobailong became a Taoist. After asking about the horse, I realized that it was the scarab at the foot of Gaotang Lake, which turned the people and things in the horse family into gold and silver with a cover-up, and made the horse lose relatives. Little white dragon said to the horse, "Don't cry, old woman. I will help your family reunite. " After that, he went into the Scarab House in Gaotang Lake and begged the Scarab to take back the spell. The beetle was furious and fought with the little white dragon. I saw waves splashing in Gaotang Lake, killing and roaring like thunder, which was earth-shattering. They played for two days and nights and didn't win or lose. At the right moment, Lv Dongbin passed by and counted. It turned out that the little white dragon and the scarab fought to save Ma Yuyan. Scarab is an evil demon that harms countless people, so he put the male and female swords in the air and killed the scarab, killing the scarab for the people. Ma Laohan and his son are reunited, and the family is reunited. In order to thank Xiao Bailong for saving the whole family, Ma cooked a dish that looked like a scarab with tofu to attract benefactors. This dish is called "Scarab Tofu". After careful preparation and careful selection of ingredients by professional chefs, turtle tofu has become a famous dish.

The Folk Story of Tofu: Borneol Tofu

In ancient times, there lived a black dragon and a white dragon on the bank of the Huaihe River in Bagong Mountain. They were responsible for the rain clouds on both sides of the Huaihe River.

Black Dragon is industrious and kind, filial to the people, able to make clouds and rain in time, with good weather in Jianghuai, and a bumper harvest every year, making the country rich and strong. White dragon is rough and moody. When it rains, it always gives nectar when it is happy, and when it is angry, it rains cats and dogs or it doesn't rain for a long time. The people of Jianghuai are miserable.

When the Jade Emperor learned of this, he sent Taibai Venus down to earth, turned the water into an ice lock, and locked the white dragon in the cave as a punishment.

At the end of Sui Dynasty, Chen Jiyuan, a scholar from Chen Zhou, Henan Province, took a boat trip to Bagong Mountain. When the boat arrived at Bailongtan, there was a sudden gale, and Chen Jiyuan's boat fell into the water and sank to the bottom of Huaihe River at 1. Not far away, there is a glittering cave. Chen Jiyuan went into the cave and saw a monster lying in the cave, locked by ice. This monster is the white dragon. He met Chen Jiyuan and said, "Please help me." Chen Jiyuan asked why Bailong had fallen into this situation, and Bailong kept telling Chen Jiyuan. Chen Jiyuan broke the ice lock with a stone and Bailong was released. In return for Chen's help, Bailong said, "I have a dragon brain on my head, and now I give it to you." Please bring it to the world, treat the people and atone for my past mistakes. "

Chen Jiyuan accepted Bailong's request, abandoned his wealth and career prospects, and stayed on both sides of the Huaihe River to treat the people and became a famous doctor at that time. Borneol tofu is made from tofu according to this legend.