The full name of dried soy sauce is dried bean curd, and Huichang, Jiangxi Province is a famous hometown of dried soy sauce. Huichang Dried Sauce is rich in profound cultural heritage. It was asked in Jiaqing year of Qing Dynasty, and was designated as a tribute by the government. It is famous in Beijing. In fact, its historical origin can be traced back to Emperor Qianlong, the "real dragon son of heaven", which is a beautiful story in the prosperous times.
Emperor Qianlong in history visited the south of the Yangtze River three times. At one time, he personally led several recent ministers to Huichang, a mountain city, traveling incognito. The son of heaven loved mountains and rivers, and also liked to be arty, and wrote poems and lyrics everywhere. He saw that Huichang was a secluded place, but it had beautiful scenery and natural wild interests, so he made a great trip and a group of people enjoyed it at will and raced to a deep mountain on the side of the post road. Warm and distant villages, smoke in yiyi market. But I saw a thatched cottage in the mountains, and the smoke curled up. At this time, everyone was hungry, so they broke into this family without dignity. This housewife is warm and hospitable. Although she doesn't know the identity of the newcomer, she still cooks while holding water for everyone to wash their faces. The minister said, "We are hungry. Go and prepare twelve dishes quickly." The housewife answered with a smile. In a blink of an eye, the food is delicious. There are three bowls of vegetables on the table: a bowl of steamed eggs, a bowl of green vegetables mixed with tofu, and a bowl of dried sauce. Emperor Qianlong and his party are used to eating delicacies. Have they ever seen such mountain village dishes? The emperor pointed to the steamed egg and asked, "What is this dish?" The woman replied, "Roll and freeze." Hot and can "freeze" knots, interesting! The son of heaven nodded. The woman pointed to the other two bowls of dishes and introduced them one by one: this is called "clear sky in the daytime" and that is called "dragon beard". The courtier still showed off and asked, "Madam, I told you to cook twelve dishes. Why did you only have three? Are you afraid that we have no money?" The housewife pointed to the leek in the steamed egg and said, "leek with eggs is not ten dishes!" " The minister was speechless, and the son of heaven was so happy that he even called it "wonderful." After the meal, the housewife did not accept money, but also specially sent a pack of dried sauce. Emperor Qianlong smiled, ordered the near minister to grind ink and spread paper, and the imperial pen waved a four-line reply.
After Emperor Qianlong returned to Beijing, he shared the dried sauce with the prince and his concubines. The prince even called it a "good product" and never forgot it. After the prince is the throne, the temple number is Jiaqing. Emperor Jiaqing talked about Huichang dried sauce, and there were many praises in his words. Fu Tai kept it in mind and ordered his subordinates to pay tribute after returning to Jiangxi. At that time, there was no fresh-keeping technology for dried sauce, so Futai attached a special delivery along the river. Poor boatmen, who travel day and night, are miserable. Because people in the mountains couldn't read, they lost Mo Bao written by Emperor Qianlong, so the later books, Ganzhou Prefecture Records and Huichang County Records, were recorded slightly. However, folklore has been handed down from generation to generation like the skill of making dried sauce.
In recent years, on the basis of traditional technology, Huichang County has made constant innovations in product preservation and nutrition, which has made this local specialty popular with more consumers. At the same time, the county supports the dried soy sauce industry in terms of capital and sales, and continuously expands the production scale, so that there are more than 2 production enterprises of dried soy sauce and bean curd, with an annual production of more than 2, tons of dried soy sauce, and the products are exported to more than 3 provinces and cities such as Guangdong, Shanghai and Beijing.