Dezhou Steak Chicken Intangible Cultural Heritage

Dezhou Grilled Chicken, also known as Dezhou Five-Spice Skinless Grilled Chicken, is one of the famous three treasures of Dezhou (Grilled Chicken, Watermelon, and Golden Jujube). Dezhou grilled chicken is a famous traditional Chinese food in Shandong Province, the classic Lu cuisine. Dezhou steak chicken production technology for the national intangible cultural heritage.

As early as in the Qing Dynasty, during the Qianlong period, the Dezhou Chicken was classified as Shandong's tribute to be sent to the palace for the emperor and queen and the royal family to enjoy. Dezhou Chicken has become famous all over the country and overseas, and is known as "the best chicken in the world".

Texas Grilled Chicken, as a traditional specialty of the Chinese nation, has spread widely across the Chinese land and formed many well-known brands recognized by the public. Dezhou Steak Chicken has become a cultural carrier, spreading Chinese food culture to the world.

The characteristics of Dezhou Steak Chicken: excellent shape and color, five spices off the bone, tender meat and pure flavor, light and elegant, taste through the bone marrow, fresh and nourishing. Modeling on the two legs coiled up, claws into the chicken chamber, wings through the neck by the mouth out of the intersection, the whole chicken was lying body, color golden, yellow through red, from afar like a duck floating in the water, the mouth of the feather plume, very beautiful, it is the top quality food art treasures.

Historical Origin of Dezhou Grilled Chicken:

In the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, with the busy transportation, Dezhou became the imperial road from Kyoto to the nine provinces. The economy began to show prosperity, and roast chicken appeared on the market. Elderly men with baskets hawking roasted chicken were often found near the canal wharves, the water and drought post stations and the government offices in the city. This kind of roast chicken is after the artificial fine work, the taste of roast chicken: its form of side lying down, red color and flavor, meat tender and delicious, as the later steak chicken prototype, the first appearance.

With the development of the economy, the city of Dezhou entered its heyday at this time, and has become one of the thirty-three big cities in China. The city had become one of the thirty-three largest cities in China. With its thoroughfares, merchants and businessmen gathered here, and goods from all over the countryside were dispersed here, there was a situation in which "customers came from the south and the north as if they were clouds, and there were as many restaurants and inns as if they were forests". Roasted chicken has not only seen in the table, and "step" into society.

Arm carrying a box selling roast chicken more than the beginning of the Jia family, and later more famous is nicknamed "Xu Roast Chicken" Xu Enrong family, as well as the west side of the Zhang family, and so on, open the door to the face of the set up store is not uncommon. Of course, this time to eat roast chicken is still limited to the dignitaries, merchants and tycoons, the people can only look at the chicken sigh.

But the inventor of roast chicken, the producer is the real working people. They worked hard to support their families, and they made a miserable living while contributing to society. Later, chicken food was developed, and in the narrow family workshops, in the old, crude process, a primitive chicken culture was produced, with a strong chicken aroma that wafted across the state.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Texas Grilled Chicken