Xi 'an beef jerky is obviously cooked. Why is it called beef jerky?

Every year 12 months, that is, before "Xiaoxue" to "beginning of spring", every household butchers cattle and sheep. Except for fresh meat enough for Chinese New Year, the rest are salted and colored with fresh salt, with a certain proportion of spices such as pepper, star anise, cinnamon and clove. Marinate for 2-5 days. Marinate thoroughly. When you are in cook the meat, first pour the old marinated soup into a pot, add the same amount of water, put it into a seasoning bag, boil it with strong fire, then add green salt as appropriate, put it on a meat board and press it with a heavy object, then cook it with low fire for 3-4 hours until brittle bones are removed, then take it out and put it on a plate, then rinse the meat noodles with the original juice soup, remove the original juice and drain it with a clean cloth. Because it is made in the twelfth lunar month every year, it is called "preserved beef and mutton".

Bacon beef has a long history in Shaanxi and is one of the traditional famous snacks. According to records, as early as more than 2,000 years ago, Zhang Lu called King Hanning. When he was defeated in the south of Bazhong, he was treated by Hanzhong people with exquisite preserved beef and mutton. This is the earliest record of preserved beef. According to legend, Empress Dowager Cixi fled to xi 'an and praised Xi 'an's preserved beef.