Why is a fried doughnut called a fried ghost?

The name "fried ghost" evolved from "fried hinoki" because people hated Qin Hui and his wife, who persecuted General Yue Fei in the Song Dynasty, so they ate them by frying flour sticks.

Folklore has it that in 1142 A.D., Yue Fei was framed by Qin Hui and his wife Wang in the Windstorm Pavilion. The people of the capital city of Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou) were outraged when they heard the news. Windstorm Pavilion near the boss of a fried food store, angry, then grabbed the dough and pinched into a man and a woman, two small people, their backs sticking together into the frying pan fried, shouting: "Come to eat fried Qin Hui it!" For a while, people were chewing on "fried Qin Hui" to vent their anger, and it became popular all over the country.

While "fried ghost" is now basically called "doughnut", but in the southeast coast of Wu, Cantonese, southern Fujian areas, as well as some of the city's towns and streets, is still used in the "deep-fried ghosts "Harmonization.