Legend has it that during the Song Dynasty, one day, a beggar wearing a Taoist robe and holding a broken fan came to Wuxi City. He walked into a cooked butcher shop and asked the shopkeeper for money. The shopkeeper said to him: "If you don't have any money, I'll give you a piece of meat." So he picked up a pound of cooked pork and handed it to the beggar. He is the legendary Living Buddha Jigong. Jigong took the meat and ate it. After he finished eating, he asked the shopkeeper for it. He ate and asked for it, and finally made the shopkeeper unhappy. He said: "You have eaten all the meat, what else can I sell tomorrow?" Jigong took over the topic and replied cheerfully: "Sell the bones!" After that, he pulled a few tendons from the broken cattail fan. , wrapped up a few remaining meat bones, handed them to the shopkeeper, and said to him: "Use these tendons and meat bones to cook together, and the meat I eat will be returned to you in double the amount." The shopkeeper heard this. After speaking, he looked the beggar in front of him up and down and felt that he didn't seem to be joking, but he was still doubtful. The next morning, when he got up to cook meat, he thought he might as well give it a try, so he put the tendons and bones given to him by Jigong into the pot and cooked them. Unexpectedly, a tangy aroma of gravy soon erupted from the pot. He opened the lid and took a look, only to see a pot full of bones with fine meat emitting an alluring aroma. When I took it out and tasted it, I found that the meat was crispy and fragrant, and the shop owner was very surprised. After hearing the news, the neighbors came to watch this strange event and tasted it one after another. They all found it extremely delicious.
From then on, the butcher shop started to operate the meat and bone business and made a lot of money. During the Qing Dynasty, the sauced pork ribs at the "Mo Xingsheng Butcher Shop" in the south gate of Wuxi were very popular. Later, in order to expand business and win the market, the "Yu Shen Butcher Shop" near Sanfeng Bridge hired several meat roasting masters with high salaries, and improved the selection of ingredients based on the experience of their predecessors and other butcher shops in cooking meat bones. , seasoning, and operation methods, so by the end of the Qing Dynasty, Sanfengqiao meat and bones had become famous all over the world.