What is the meaning of Buddha jumps over the wall?

History and culture[edit] "Buddha jumps over the wall" that is "full of incense", also known as "Fukushu Quan", is the chief famous dish in Fuzhou. It is said that the Tang Dynasty monk Xuan Tsuen, in the way to Shaolin Temple in Fujian Province, passing through the "Min Du" Fuzhou, night inn, just across the wall of your official family to "full of incense" feast guests, the monk smelled mouth-watering, and then abandoned the Buddhist discipline for many years of cultivation, jumped over the wall and into a share of the "full of incense". "Full of Fragrance". "Buddha jumped over the wall" is thus named. Brief history of Buddha jumps over the wall: Buddha jumps over the wall was originally named Fushou Quan. In the 25th year of Guangxu (1899), an official of Fuzhou Government Money Bureau invited Zhou Lian, the Minister of Fujian Province, to a banquet, and in order to flatter Zhou Lian, he made his inner circle to be the chef personally, and used Shaoxing wine altar to contain more than 10 kinds of raw and auxiliary materials, such as chickens, ducks, mutton, pig's belly, pigeon eggs and seafood, and simmered them into a dish named "Fukushouquan". Zhou Lian tasted it and praised it. Later, Nga Chef Zheng Chunfa learned to cook this dish method to improve, to Zheng Chunfa opened "Juchunyuan" restaurant, that is, this dish is a sensation in Banyan City. Once, a group of literati came to taste this dish, when Fushouquan on the table to open the altar, meat aroma overflowing, one of the showman intoxicated, triggering poetry, immediately roaming chanting: "altar open meat aroma wafting the four neighbors, the Buddha heard the abandonment of Zen jumped over the wall to". From then on, it was renamed Buddha jumped over the wall. 1965 and 1980, respectively, in Guangzhou South Park and Hong Kong, to cook the Buddha jumped over the wall of Fuzhou cuisine caused a sensation, set off a Buddha jumped over the wall of heat in the world. Restaurants opened by overseas Chinese around the world often used Buddha Jumping Over the Wall dishes, which claimed to be authentic, to attract customers. Buddha jumps over the wall also in the reception of Prince Sihanouk, U.S. President Reagan, Queen Elizabeth and other heads of state at the state banquet, y appreciated, the dish is more famous. Allusion to Buddha jumps over the wall: Buddha jumps over the wall is a set of mountain treasures of Fuzhou sea food of the whole of the traditional dishes, reputation in China and abroad, by the culinary industry as Fujian recipes "chief dishes", so far there are more than a hundred years of history.　 Why is such a delicious dish called "Buddha jumps over the wall"? There are three kinds of legends in Fuzhou folklore. One of them is: according to legend, in the late Qing Dynasty Tongzhi (1876), Fuzhou official money an official hosted a banquet for Zhou Lian, the Chief Secretary of Fujian Province, his Shaoxing wife personally cooked a dish called "Fukushouquan," containing chicken, duck, meat and several kinds of seafood, and put in a Shaoxing wine simmered in the wine altar and made. Zhou Lian ate and praised, and then ordered the Nga Chef Zheng Chunfa imitation, Zheng Chunfa door-to-door, and in the ingredients to reform, more seafood, less meat, so that the dish more meat and flavorful and delicious. Later Zheng Chunfa left Zhoulian Nga House, capitalized on the operation of the Juchunyuan restaurant, "Fushouquan" became the main dish of the restaurant, only because of the Fuzhou language "Fushouquan" and "Buddha jumped over the wall" pronunciation Because of the similarity in pronunciation between "Fushouquan" and "Buddha Jumping Over the Wall" in Fuzhou, "Fushouquan" was replaced by "Buddha Jumping Over the Wall" and became famous all over the world over time.　 Secondly, it is a custom in Fujian that on the third day after a new daughter-in-law gets married, she has to show her tea and rice skills in the kitchen to serve her in-laws and win their appreciation. Legend has it that a daughter of a rich family, pampered, do not learn to cook, the eve of the marriage of sorrow. Her mother then took the family's delicacies are made into a variety of dishes, one by one, wrapped in lotus leaves, tell her how to cook. Who knows that the lady actually forget the burning method, in a hurry, all the dishes into a Shaoxing wine altar, covered with lotus leaves, put on the stove. The next day the aroma wafted out, the family even praised the good food, which is "eighteen dishes in a pot to cook" the "Buddha jumped over the wall" of the origin.　 The third is: a group of beggars every day with a potter's bowl cans around to beg for food, to beg for a variety of leftovers poured together to cook, steaming, fragrant. Monk smelled, could not help the fragrance lure, jumped out of the wall, feast. There is a poem to prove it: "Brewing start meat aroma floating ten miles, the Buddha heard abandoned Zen jumped over the wall." The fourth is not exactly the same as the first: ..." Buddha jumps over the wall" is the first traditional dish in Fujian cuisine. According to legend, this dish originated in the late Qing Dynasty, Fuzhou Yangqiao Lane, an official of the Bureau of official silver, hosted a banquet at home to invite the Chief Secretary Zhou Lian, the official's wife personally in the kitchen, selecting chicken, duck, meat and other more than 20 kinds of raw materials into the altar of Shaoxing wine, carefully simmered and made into meat dishes, Zhou Lian tasted after the full of praise. Afterwards, Zhou Lian took the court chef Zheng Chunfa to visit the official silver bureau. After returning to the Yamen, Zheng Chunfa carefully study, in the material to be reformed, more seafood, less meat, the effect is better than the former. In 1877, Zheng Chunfa opened a "poly spring garden" restaurant, continue to study, enrich the dish's raw materials, the dishes produced by the rich flavor, widely loved praise. One day, a few showmen came to the museum to drink and taste the dishes, the hall official held an altar dishes to the showmen table, altar cover open, full of meat dishes, showmen smell intoxicated. Some people are busy asking what the name of this dish, A: not yet named. So the showman was present to recite poetry, which has a poem cloud: "altar open meat aroma wafting four neighbors, the Buddha heard the abandonment of the bullet jumped the wall." The crowd shouted. Since then, quoting the meaning of the poem: "Buddha jumped over the wall" has become the proper name of this dish, which has a history of more than 100 years.　　 Because the "Buddha jumped over the wall" is dozens of ingredients simmered in an altar, both **** the same meat flavor, but also to maintain their own characteristics. Eat up soft and tender, rich meat aroma, but meat and not greasy; each material for each other to penetrate, taste in flavor. At the same time, the nutritional value is very high, has a tonic blood, lungs and intestines, prevention and treatment of cold and other effects. On the table, such as with Demoiselle radish (white radish cut into shreds) a dish, a dish of oil mustard chili, a dish of ham with bean sprouts, a dish of fried mushrooms, a dish of bean sprouts, and then with silver silk rolls, sesame seed burrito accompanied by food, it is unspeakable, and its flavor is infinite. Speaking of Buddha jumped over the wall of this dish, almost all people know and have done all sorts of imagination, but really ate the Buddha jumped over the wall of the people are very few, as knowledgeable as Mr. Liang Shiqiu, Yashuo talk about Buddha jumped over the wall, and finally turned to the braised pork, not to mention me and other mortals. Luckily, the Chinese language, with its rich connotation and extension of Chinese characters, describes for us the famous dish of Fuzhou at that time, "altar roasted eight treasures".　　 There are so many allusions to the Buddha Jumping Over the Wall that they are like the Chinese names of Hollywood blockbusters, but neither the "Eight Treasures of the Altar" nor the "Blessing of Life" have the three words "Buddha Jumping Over the Wall"! It brings us endless imagination and enjoyment.