During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, in order to please the emperor, the minister of the DPRK got a secret recipe from a monk to help him prolong his life, and played it to burn soup and drink it. After the emperor tasted it, he was overjoyed and ordered it to be "Imperial Soup". At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Ji, an imperial chef living abroad, was at large. He saw that the east gate was close to Shahe, and the boat was galloping, and the west gate was close to Yingying River. The situation was natural, and the two rivers meandered eastward. The fortress in the town was strong and it was a beautiful place. Zhao Ji decided to live in seclusion. Therefore, the secret of the palace is convenient to spread here. The porridge soup cooked by the people with this secret recipe is sour and spicy, full of fragrance, commonly known as "Hu spicy soup". As time goes by, the soup spreads farther and farther, and it is called "Xiaoyao Hu Spicy Soup" because it is more abundant than Xiaoyao.
The soup is mainly made of wheat flour, cooked cattle and mutton, supplemented by nearly 3 kinds of pure natural plant spices such as Amomum villosum, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, pepper, cinnamon, angelica dahurica, kaempferia kaempferia, licorice, radix aucklandiae, cardamom, Amomum tsaoko, Alpinia officinarum, anise, fennel and clove, and is made by comprehensive decocting according to different proportions, adding monosodium glutamate created in the new era and appropriate amount of sesame oil.
Xiaoyao Hula Decoction is a treasure of Chinese traditional food culture and an excellent brand of folk food culture in the Central Plains. In order to make Xiaoyao Hu spicy soup, a famous flavor snack, bless future generations, in recent ten years, with the strong guidance and support of Xihua County Party Committee and county government, a large number of people who have mastered Hu spicy soup have gone out to operate Hu spicy soup. With the development of business scale, Xiaoyao Hu spicy soup industry has rapidly expanded from Henan to major and medium-sized cities across the country, becoming stronger and stronger. Xiaoyao Hu spicy soup has become a household name in many places and has been praised as "Beijing Big Bowl Tea" At present, there are more than 5, operators of Hu spicy soup and more than 2, soup pots in the county, which are spread all over hundreds of large and medium-sized cities in more than 2 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, with an annual net income of 3 million yuan. There are more than 1, operators of Hu spicy soup and more than 5, soup pots in Xiaoyao Town alone, with an annual income of 12 million yuan. It has become a successful way for farmers in Xihua to get rich.
in February, 23, the "First Xiaoyao Hulatang Food Festival and Hulatang Competition" hosted by Xihua County People's Government and undertaken by Xiaoyao Town People's Government was successfully held in Xiaoyao Town, and Xiaoyao Hulatang Association was established. In June of the same year, Xiaoyao Hulatang Association sent representatives to participate in the National Chinese Famous Eating Competition held in Xiamen, and Xiaoyao Hulatang was awarded the title of "Chinese Famous Eating" by China Cuisine Association. In 24, seven sets of CCTV "Zhi Fu Jing" columns made a special publicity report on Xiaoyao Hula Decoction. In 25, "Dahe Daily" made a full-page publicity introduction to Xiaoyao Hula Decoction for three consecutive days. On April 23rd, 26, the 2nd China Xihua Xiaoyao Hot Soup Food Festival was held in Xiaoyao Town. At the same time, a Hu Spicy Soup Competition was held, in which 53 contestants competed on the spot, and experts from the Henan Cuisine Research Association, the Provincial Cuisine Association and the Zhoukou Cuisine Association were invited to play on the spot, and 1 special prizes and 2 first prizes were awarded.
according to the market demand, with the guidance and support of the government, we further explored and demonstrated the traditional formula and production technology of soup, and scientifically analyzed, and developed eight series of 46 varieties of Hu-spicy soup seasonings, such as instant Hu-spicy soup, water-washed Hu-spicy soup, full-flavored powder of Hu-spicy soup, sixteen flavors, delicious flavor and bean foam. Among them, "Jingyao" brand, "Xiaoyaozhen" brand, "Longliang", "Longyihe" and "Xiaoyaoxiang" brand series of Hu spicy soup materials have successively won the title of "provincial quality products". The annual output of all kinds of spicy soup seasonings is 6 million pieces, with an output value of 16 million yuan. At present, supermarkets in large and medium-sized cities in the province have exclusive areas for Hu spicy soup, and all counties and towns have sales outlets for Hu spicy soup, so that thousands of ordinary people can taste the carefree Hu spicy soup with good color, flavor and unique flavor without leaving home. At the end of the Republic of China, due to frequent wars, social unrest, looting by bandits, and the capture of Ding in the melee of warlords, the market was in a depression, but it never rains but it pours, and the head of Zhao's Hu spicy soup became addicted to cigarettes again. When he first started smoking heavy cigarettes, his family was not bad. After he became addicted to heavy cigarettes, he soon squandered his modest family resources. It is difficult for the family to live. In desperation, they kicked him out of the house and left him to fend for himself.
Zhao's boss lives on credit when he lives on the street. Neighbors pity him and occasionally give him something. However, with the increase of smoking addiction, he soon owed a large amount of debt, the most of which was Wang Laohan, who set up a stall to sell fish soup and braised soup. For a time, he made up his mind to quit drug addiction and return to his old job in order to pay off his debts, but he had no money and couldn't buy medicine to go with the soup. There is a pharmacy boy named Wei Xiniu, who is an apprentice in Longyihe Pharmacy from Shanxi. He is very sympathetic to his experience, so he quietly steals some medicine from the pharmacy according to the formula of Hu spicy soup he gave, and lets him make Hu spicy soup. This can be said to be the first time that people other than Zhao got the prescription of Hu spicy soup.
It didn't take long for Zhao's boss to insist on smoking again, and this time he smoked harder than before. He felt that he could never get rid of this "evil influence" again, so he gave up and sat down to die. Thinking that there was still a large debt to pay, he decided to use the cooking technology and formula of Hu spicy soup to pay off the debt. After he taught Wang Guoyu, the son of Wang Laohan, the cooking technology of Hu Spicy Soup, his body has completely collapsed. When he died, he told Wang Laohan that Wei Xiniu had the ingredients of Hu spicy soup, and then he died. Later, Wang Guoyu got the recipe of Hu Spicy Soup from Wei Xiniu and became the most famous Hu Spicy Soup Master in Xiaoyao Town during the Republic of China.
After liberation, the state reformed the handicraft industry and commerce, and Xiaoyao Town gathered these skilled chefs to form a cooperative, so that each chef could perform and be paid according to the level of cooking. Among these people is Wang Guoyu, a master of making Hu spicy soup. The chefs exchanged needed goods during the performance, and soon mastered the making method of Hu spicy soup, among which Cheng Jinyu was the best. According to Mr. Hou Kequan, the famous people who cooked Hu spicy soup later, such as Zhang, Gao and Yang, all learned their skills in the cooperative at that time. The reason why Mr. Hou Kequan knows so many stories about Hu Spicy Soup is because Mr. Hou's father befriended Wang Guoyu, Wei Xiniu and Cheng Jinyu, and when he was young, he wrote them down while listening to several adults chatting.
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The real development of Hu spicy soup is after the reform and opening up. According to Liu Jianwei, Secretary General of Xiaoyao Hula Soup Association, Xiaoyao Town Hula Soup has been full of vitality since 198s. At the beginning, the people in Xiaoyao Town had not come out of the shadow of "cutting the tail of capitalism", only the local Muslims secretly made it and sold it, and they were still afraid. Gradually, others also saw the benefits, and some people began to go out of their homes and hang the brand of Xiaoyao Town Hu Spicy Soup in other areas. First, Luohe (the nearest prefecture-level city to Xiaoyao Town), then Zhengzhou City, Luoyang City, Kaifeng City, etc., and later, it reached Heihe River in the north, Haikou in the south, Tianshan Mountain in the west and the sea in the east. Xiaoyao Town Hu Spicy Soup has spread all over the country.
Xiaoyao Town Government established Xiaoyao Hula Soup Association on February 15th, 23, hoping to make Xiaoyao Town Hula Soup into a real Henan brand with a standardized chain operation mode, change the image of Hula Soup in people's minds, and let more people know about it, accept it and like it.
It is reported that Xiaoyao Hulatang Association is registering the trademark Xiaoyao Town Hulatang. Because someone has registered this trademark, Xiaoyao Town Government is negotiating with the other party to solve it. I certainly hope that they can get the trademark "Xiaoyao Town Hu Spicy Soup", because no matter from the historical and practical point of view, this trademark should belong to them, and no one should take it away. Origin of Hu Spicy Soup: It is said that during the reign of Emperor Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was busy with monasticism and wanted to live forever. In order to please the emperor, Yan Song Yange, a cabinet scholar, took people everywhere to search for a secret recipe, and unexpectedly found a side in the hands of a Taoist priest. According to the Taoist priest, this side could prolong life, so Yan Song offered it, and the imperial kitchen cooked it into soup according to this side. After Emperor Jiajing took it, it was refreshing and refreshed. And because in this soup, the imperial kitchen specially added valuable supplements such as ginseng, also known as "golden soup", which can really be described as "palace jade liquid soup", which is only delicious for the royal family! At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing soldiers entered the customs, and Zhao Qi, the imperial chef, fled to Xiaoyao Town, the original town in China with this secret recipe. Unable to bear the loss of this soup, it was spread to local residents. Since then, the local people have passed it down from generation to generation, regarded it as a treasure, and after many changes and improvements, it has become a treasure on the table of the local people. Therefore, the soup is spicy and appetizing, and then it is slowly called "Hu Spicy Soup" by the local people.
Anecdote of Hu Spicy Soup: It is said that Hu Spicy Soup cured Yu Qian, a famous official in Ming Dynasty, of his cold. According to the selected works commemorating "Yu Qian Memorial Hall", Yu Qian was the governor of Henan and Shanxi provinces and was stationed in Kaifeng. One year, when he was visiting Zhengzhou on his birthday, he found a "Hu Ji" restaurant according to the frugal practice, drank a bowl of hot soup and spent his birthday. This unique birthday food made Yu Qian deeply remember its delicious taste.
On one occasion, when Yu Qian came back from a tour of Shanxi, he passed by Zheng County (now Zhengzhou). Due to the tiring journey and busy business, he fell ill with a cold for several days, but he still didn't get well. One night, Yu Qian suddenly remembered the soup of Hu Ji and sent someone to buy it. When the shopkeeper of "Hu Ji" heard that the governor wanted to eat it, he put enough seasoning and made it carefully. Yu Qian broke out in a big sweat after eating, and the next day, he was light and healthy, and his cold was unconsciously cured. Yu Qian sealed the silver twelve taels, thanked the shopkeeper Hu for his kindness in treating the disease, and suggested that the soup be named after Hu's surname. Since then, this soup has become a "Hu spicy soup".
After the Qing Dynasty, there were many people selling Hu spicy soup in Zhengzhou. However, because the Qing Dynasty was founded by Manchu people, people dared not say the word "Hu" more, and the soup looked mushy, and "Hu" and "paste" were homonyms, so Hu spicy soup was later changed into silly spicy soup, which has been used ever since.
Now, Hu Spicy Soup has been used to being called Hu Spicy Soup, and it is also called "Palace Royal Brocade Soup".