Su Dongpo, a great writer, was born in Meishan. He is not only a famous scholar, but also a famous gourmet, especially in cakes. He once wrote a poem, "A small cake is like chewing the moon, with crisp pulp in it" and "When you rub it with your hand, you will find a few jade, which is blue, oily and light yellow" to describe the characteristics of the cake.
Meishan people, as descendants of Dongpo's hometown, admire Mr. Dongpo very much, and have made many fried foods with "light yellow" color and "crisp" taste by speculating Su Dongpo's description characteristics of cakes. One kind of "Melaleuca Cake" was later widely circulated, and later Meishan people named it "Longan Crisp" because of its dragon-like eyes.
Brief introduction of Su Shi:
Su Shi was a literary leader in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, and made great achievements in poetry, ci, writing, calligraphy and painting. Vertical and horizontal text; Poetry has a wide range of themes, fresh and healthy, uses exaggerated metaphors and has a unique style. Also known as "Su Huang" with Huang Tingjian. The words are unconstrained style, and Xin Qiji is the representative of unconstrained style, also known as "Su Xin"? ; Prose writing is rich and unrestrained, and he is also called "Ou Su" with Ouyang Xiu, and is one of the "Eight Masters in Tang and Song Dynasties".
Su Shi's good book, one of Song Sijia; He is good at literati painting, especially ink bamboo, strange stones and dead wood. Li Zhimin commented: "Su Shi is a generalist."
Refer to the above? Baidu encyclopedia-Su Shi