Wuhan is located in the thoroughfare of nine provinces. Due to the geographical environment and economic activities, the residents of the three towns in Wuhan have long developed the eating habit of "premature" outdoors. The word "premature" was the first to appear. Ye Tiaoyuan's "Hankou Bamboo Branch Ci" written by Ye Tiaoyuan during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty said: "Vegetables, fish and meat are always carried on the shoulders, and food is abundant and fast. Chu is gluttonous. Add two meals to the middle too early, and be careful to eliminate the night."

Wuhan’s breakfast is not only convenient and time-saving, but also rich in variety and has both northern and southern flavors. There are fried dough sticks, noodle nests, roasted plums, soup dumplings, bean curds, and hot dry noodles, as well as beef thread noodles, miscellaneous sauce noodles, bean shreds, dumplings, and glutinous rice balls. Some are dry or thin, and they are delicious when eaten hot. Hot dry noodles is one of the traditional snacks in Wuhan. It is fragrant and refreshing, and has a unique flavor. It is the first choice food of Wuhan people. It, together with fried noodle nests, rice cakes, etc., forms a series of Wuhan-style snacks that are famous throughout the country and have been around for several years. It lasts ten years. Twenty years ago, a bowl of food stamps cost "two taels and a dime", but now you can comfortably fill your stomach with just a few bucks. Now all the food stalls in the three towns of Wuhan mainly sell hot and dry noodles. "Cailinji" in Hankou is a century-old hot and dry noodle store. Now Cai Linji Hot and Dry Noodles Company has opened more than 300 chain stores in the three towns of Wuhan, and the business is booming. . Wuhan's hot dry noodles, together with Shanxi's knife-shaped noodles, Guangdong and Guangxi's Yifu noodles, Sichuan's Dandan noodles, and northern fried noodles, are known as the five famous noodles in my country.

When it comes to Wuhan hot and dry noodles, most Wuhan people know the "Cailinji" hot and dry noodle shop on Jianghan Road. This is the most authentic Wuhan hot and dry noodles. In fact, regarding the origin of hot dry noodles, the real inventor is Li Bao, a cooked food vendor. Li Bao is not well-known, he only got his name because of a sarcoma on his neck. In the early 1930s, he lived in the shanty town of Guandi Temple in Qiaokou. He carried a load and rocked a rattle on Hanzheng Street and Changdi Street for many years. The jelly noodles and soup noodles were hawked along the road, and life was tight. One summer evening, he was exhausted and carrying unsold noodles home. Worried that the leftover noodles would go rancid overnight, he cooked them all and left them to dry on the chopping board. Unexpectedly, he accidentally knocked over the oil pot. The fragrant sesame oil is poured all over the noodles. Li Bao felt heartbroken and regretful, so he had no choice but to mix the cooked noodles with the spilled oil and let them cool, hoping to save some money by selling them the next day.

Early the next morning, Li Bao quickly picked up these noodles and took them to the street. First heat it in boiling water, then scoop it dry and sell it with condiments. Customers saw that the way this noodle was made was different from the usual soup noodles. It was dry and flavorful, so they bought a bowl of it. "Try something new" and eat with gusto. Someone asked about the name of this kind of noodles, and Li Bao, who was embarrassed to say anything, had an idea and replied casually: "This is the hot and soup-free 'hot dry noodle' sand that I specially made according to your family's taste!" , hot dry noodles began to spread in the Hanzheng Street area and were favored by more and more customers. Li Bao saw that hot dry noodles were much more popular than cold noodle soup, so he began to operate them exclusively. Later, he added Fu juice wine or mung bean porridge, and the business became more and more prosperous. Li Bao's reputation spread beyond Hanzheng Street to Hankou, Jianghan District, and then to the three towns of Wuhan. Hot dry noodles have also been imitated by many vendors and have gradually become a favorite breakfast of Wuhan citizens.

In the late 1930s, a hot-dry noodle restaurant with the name "Cai Lin Ji" was finally built at the Manchun intersection. Cai Linji continued to inherit and improve Li Bao's hot-dry noodle making technology, making it golden and moist according to the taste of customers. The delicate and flexible hot-dry noodles are added with condiments such as sesame paste, pepper, pickles, dried shrimps, etc., and mixed with finely ground sesame oil or chili oil, etc., so that the hot-dry noodles are full of color and flavor, suitable for all ages, and become a delicious breakfast for people in the three towns. The reputation spreads throughout the country and overseas. As for the connection between Li Bao and Cai Linji, there is no historical evidence. However, it is an indisputable fact that Li Bao pioneered hot dry noodles and the popularity of hot dry noodles in the Hanzheng Street area was indeed before Cai Linji became famous.

Hot dry noodles have gradually become a part of Wuhan culture. As long as you study the culture of Wuhan, it is almost impossible to escape the entanglement of hot dry noodles. Wuhan writer Chi Li gave a detailed introduction to hot-dry noodles in the book "Old Wuhan". Another Wuhan writer Fang Fang also wrote a lot about hot-dry noodles. On the most prosperous commercial pedestrian street in Wuhan, there is such a bronze statue: an old father, with a towel on his shoulders and a unique tool for cooking hot dry noodles - a bamboo fence, is concentrating on it. of boiled noodles. This is the most popular statue among all the statues on the pedestrian street. Countless Wuhan citizens take pictures around it every day. Then one day, people in Wuhan woke up early in the morning and discovered that the bamboo fence in the statue's hand was missing. People in Wuhan were anxious. They searched everywhere, and the media also joined in.

Later, one morning, the people of Wuhan woke up and found that the bamboo fence had miraculously returned. It seems that the thief can't bear that Wuhan people don't have hot dry noodles to eat!