The predecessor of Tianjin cuisine is Shandong cuisine, which is especially famous for fresh food from rivers and seas.
At that time, Tianjin Wei's fish and shrimp industry was called a fish and shrimp shop.
Later, the scale gradually expanded and it slowly evolved into a seafood shop.
People who eat this bowl of rice are accustomed to worshiping an ancestor.
It is said that the founder of the sea goods business was named Zhang, but his name has been lost.
People in this industry call him "Sloppy Zhang".
To talk about the origin of this sloppy Zhang, it is a long story, and it is full of folklore.
It is said that during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, Sloppy Zhang was still a commoner.
Every day he sold fish and shrimp in a market called Lehudong outside the north gate of Tianjin City, but his income was very meager and he could barely make ends meet.
This is because Sloppy Zhang is lazy and arrives at the market very late every day.
He waits until other merchants have sold out their goods before he arrives, so he always sells very little fish and shrimp and makes little profit.
The money I came in was only enough for the next purchase, so I quietly made up my mind to get up early and go to the market to sell goods.
One winter, when the weather was cold and freezing, Dirty Zhang got up early and rushed to the market before dawn.
When he arrived at the market, he found that there was no one in the market, and he regretted that he had gotten up too early.
In desperation, he had no choice but to put down his burden and wait for the market to open at dawn.
At this time, I suddenly found a person lying on the ground not far away.
He thought it was a corpse lying on the road, so he lit a lantern and bravely walked over.
When he stepped forward, he saw that he was an old man.
With a little vitality, it seems that he will freeze to death soon.
Seeing this, Sloppy Zhang immediately carried the old man under the Beidaguan Bridge, lit a fire, and used the bridge hole to escape the cold wind.
The old man gradually woke up and realized that it was this sloppy Zhang who had saved him, so he took out a red pill from his body and gave it to him as a reward, then got up and limped away.
Sloppy Zhang took the red pill without paying much attention, and casually put it into a bag he had with him.
It was late winter, and once all the sloppy fish were frozen to death.
Suddenly, the cloth bag he was carrying had a hole, and the red pill fell into the wooden basin where the fish was placed.
Suddenly the ice in the basin melted and the snow melted, and the frozen fish The dead fish came to life, and every one of them was jumping around.
He couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw this scene.
Every day from then on, he would buy a lot of dead fish at low prices, use red pills to bring the fish back to life, and then take them to the market to sell them, thereby making him rich.
As time passed, people in the same industry finally learned about Sloppy Zhang's method, and they all wanted to steal this red pill for themselves.
Sloppy Zhang gradually felt that something was wrong, and was worried that someone would take it away from him.
He swallowed the red pill in his heart and disappeared from the world, as if he had disappeared from the world.
Suddenly, rumors spread in the shipping shop, saying that Sloppy Zhang was a man of integrity, and that the lame old man was Tieguai Li, one of the Eight Immortals, who had come to save him.
Therefore, everyone regarded Sloppy Zhang as the founder of the industry and hoped that he would bless his colleagues' business prosperity.
To this day, his popularity continues
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