What is "Buddha jumps over the wall"? Does anyone really like it?

"A dish rises to the altar, and the aroma is overflowing. When Buddha hears it, he abandons Zen and jumps over the wall." People familiar with Fujian cuisine should know immediately that it is the first dish of Fujian cuisine, "Buddha jumps over the wall". As a famous dish in Fujian, the Buddha Leaping Wall has a history of 100 years, and it is the first delicacy at the Manchu-Han banquet in Qing Dynasty.

Buddha jumps over the wall and inherits the essence of Fujian cuisine-fresh fragrance. Traditional Fujian cuisine is famous for its delicacies, which is also determined by the geographical location of Fujian. According to Fujian Tongzhi, "bamboo shoots and trees are everywhere", "fish, salt and clams are rich in green", "two messengers have a hundred rivers, and fish and shrimp enter the market without paying any money" and "clams are sweet and delicious". It is not difficult to see from these poems that Fujian has a unique diet resource.

Fujian is adjacent to the Taiwan Province Strait in the east, and is backed by rivers and mountains such as Wuyishan and Daiyunshan. In Fujian coastal areas, there are fish, shrimp, snails, mussels, sturgeons, oysters and other seafood all year round, while tea, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, deer, river eels, turtles and other delicacies are produced between mountains and streams. In addition, there are rice, sucrose, vegetables, litchi, longan, citrus and so on in the lower reaches of the river. It is such rich ingredients that create the fresh and fragrant style of Fujian cuisine.

Buddha jumping wall is the representative work of this kind of rich food, which consists of 18 main ingredients and more than ten kinds of auxiliary materials. Its raw materials are chicken and duck, pork belly, hoof tip, tendon, ham and chicken and duck gizzard. There are shark's fin, sea cucumber, abalone, scallop and fish belly; There are more than 30 kinds of raw materials and accessories, such as pigeon eggs, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and razor clam. Buddha jumping wall is made of these materials carefully, and finally sealed in a jar with lotus leaves and simmered.

Buddha jumps over the wall, a famous dish in China, has become a good dish at state banquets several times. Due to the use of a large number of precious ingredients, the cooked taste is said to be "the gods can't stand it." This famous dish is called "expensive dish" and only local tyrants can afford it.