Bad soup

Bad soup is divided into sweet soup and salty soup, which is usually eaten by every household at the age of fourteen. Salty soup is mainly made of more than 10 kinds of vegetables, meat and seafood, cut into granules, fried for half-maturity, and then added with rice flour pulp or starch pulp. This food originated from the food that the people thanked the soldiers during the anti-Japanese war in Qi Jiguang. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the small town was only a fishing village, and it was often robbed and harassed by pirates. At that time, there was a general named Weichi Gong, who mobilized soldiers to build a city to resist theft. On the day of construction, it happened to be the fourteenth day of the first month. As usual, the people wanted to have a Lantern Festival, and pirates took the opportunity to enter. When Weichi Gong heard the newspaper, he sent troops to resist, while stepping up the fortification. At night, when it was snowing, the people discussed together: what snacks should we burn to reward the soldiers who built the city? Some suggested sending food and wine to keep the soldiers out of the cold. But the general ordered the soldiers not to drink alcohol. An old man came up with a plan to kill two birds with one stone: using bad new wine as water, adding shredded pork, shredded winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, oil bubbles, Sichuan fermented soya beans and other meat dishes and noodles to make a "bad soup", which is delicious and can keep out the cold. Everyone will burn the "bad soup" and send it. The soldiers were full of energy after eating the "bad soup" and soon built the city wall. Since then, the custom of eating "bad soup" in the Lantern Festival in small towns has been followed from generation to generation. Sweet soup is mainly made of rice cakes, Sichuan watercress, preserved oranges, raisins and small dumplings. Old people in Linhai generally don't need a spoon to eat soup, but they use chopsticks. What's more, they squat at the door with a bowl of bad soup in their hands, without chopsticks and spoons. They walk along the edge of the bowl, turn around and come down in one gulp, and a bowl of bad soup has entered their stomachs.
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