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Why is peach crisp called peach crisp?

The origin of the name of the peach cake:

According to legend, in the Tang Dynasty, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, the surrounding counties of Leping, Guixi, Yingtan and other places of the farmers have to go to do the potter, due to the busy work at that time, there was a Leping farmers will be brought to stir their own flour and put directly on the surface of the kiln to bake.

Because of its perennial cough, weekdays often have the habit of eating peach kernel cough, so in the baking time will add crushed peach kernel. Other porcelain workers see this method to do the dry food for daily preservation and long-distance transportation of porcelain when eaten have been copied, because and named "pottery crisp". Harmonized as peach crisp.

Expanded Information:

There is a story about a man who was a loyalist, and who was a member of the Chinese Communist Party. p>The peach crisp has a story about loyalty and treachery, in the Ming Dynasty during the Jiajing years in Jiangxi Province out of the two chief minister Xia Yan and Yan Song, these two people a loyal and a treacherous, Yan Song was originally a very low official rank, but ambitious.

He pretended to be clean and upright in the court, and won the favor and promotion of Xia Yan. However, after Yan Song gained power, he showed his true colors and killed Xia Yan, but also implicated his nine clans. Xia Yan's descendants could only run away to save their lives, some of them came to the village of Guizhou in Shangqing, and some of them hid themselves under the present Longtou Mountain.

But they soon ran out of money and had only a little dry food, peach cake, left, so they ate the last of the peach cake while cursing Yan Song.

Eating and eating, they suddenly thought that it would be better to do peach cake business to earn money, because at that time, peach cake is a palace snack folk rarely seen. So they began to sell "palace peach cake" in the place near the North Pole Pavilion, the peach cake production process is thus spread in the folk.

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