In the sixteenth year of Qing Qianlong (A.D. 175 1), in March of spring, Qianlong went to Hangzhou for the first time. The Governor of Hangzhou has received a report from Beijing that the Holy One is coming. In order to please the emperor, he sent a letter to Hangzhou Daxing Commercial City. At one time, famous teas, silks and porcelain from all over the country gathered in Hangzhou.
Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Factory also selected various treasures and markets, and Guan Tao Yunzhe led a delegation 19 people to go. Yunzhe is a Manchu, from the seven products, no shelf. I have a deep friendship with Li Jinchun, a scholar who opened a noodle restaurant. Among the entourage, YunZhe took him to broaden his horizons. Secondly, Yunzhe is a northerner and likes his pasta very much. He used to eat for almost a day.
This Li Jinchun is not surnamed Li, but surnamed Cao. My ancestral home is Cao Cun, northeast township of Fuliang, Jingdezhen. His ancestors were left behind by the Ming Dynasty. In 162 1 year, the Qing army was defeated and captured as a slave under Dourgen, and later served as Qin Bing. In the first year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1646), Li Jinchun's great-grandfather entered Beijing, and in the eighth year of Shunzhi (A.D. 165 1 year), after the death of Regent Dourgen, Li Jinchun's great-grandfather took office in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. When he was transferred to Jiangsu and Zhejiang as an official, Kangxi's four southern tours caused the government to lose money, and he was dismissed by the governor of Liangjiang in the first year of Yongzheng. In the early summer of the sixth year of Yongzheng, his great-grandfather adopted Li Jinchun's father Cao Xian to his good friend Li Jiawei before his death, and the Li family was soon ruined by one thing. As a last resort, Cao Xian (later renamed "Li Xian") returned to Fuliang, Jiangxi Province, and was embarrassed to return to his hometown in Caocun because of his family's decline. Li Xian got married in Jingdezhen and gave birth to a son and a daughter. His daughter Lin Chun was betrothed to others since she was a child, and his son's name was Li Meng.
Li Jinchun has read thousands of books since he was a child. He is good at poetry and painting, and his talent is extraordinary. For various reasons, he just can't win. The house leaks when it rains all night, parents are dead, and the family is not prosperous. Survival has become a big problem. Sister Lin Chun married in Xiuning, Anhui Province, and her family came down, so she couldn't afford to hire a servant. No one cooked for him, so she cooked it herself. Fortunately, he is intelligent by nature, "food is the most important thing for the people", and there is nothing to do, so the scholar has to study gluttony. Rice noodle snacks, some fancy decoration, occasionally income, call friends to try. Several good friends were full of praise, thinking that "one person is not as good as many people", so they lent him some money. After a while, they opened a small noodle restaurant near the riverside pier in Mashixiang, Jingdezhen. Li Xiucai put on several hats herself, and the boss and the man took the responsibility. Don't think snacks are useless. Customers are not only strangers who come here to work and "rough houses", but also people who come to Jingdezhen in the north to buy porcelain. Li Jinchun is open-minded, operating on a small budget, only seeking wealth preservation and making friends, regardless of background. There is a "Golden Spring Pavilion" hanging in the storefront, and his calligraphy works are all over the wall. There are many down-and-out painters among customers, and they can't help but itch and give pictures. The busybodies rewrote the names of various pastry foods, including the word "Spring", such as "Yangchun noodles", "Spring rolls" and "Xue Mei welcomes the spring".