"When Wang Zhihe returned home after leaving home for a few days, he opened the door and smelled a strange stench."

"When he opened the wrapping cloth covering the tofu, he saw that the snow-white tofu had a layer of green hair."

"Wang Zhihe has been diligent and thrifty since he was a child. He reluctantly grabbed a handful of tofu and put it in his mouth. It actually smelled good."

"Wang Zhihe was overjoyed. He removed the green hair on the tofu, cut the tofu into small pieces, and started selling "stinky tofu" on his shoulders."

"In this way, Wang Zhihe's tofu business grew bigger and bigger, and he also operated white tofu and stinky tofu, and gradually became famous in the south of Beijing and the north."

"Smelly tofu has become a delicacy on the dinner table."

"In the 17th year of Kangxi's reign, Wang Zhihe built a workshop on Yanshou Temple Street West Road and set up a sign: "Wang Zhihe South Sauce Garden". He hired teachers and apprentices to deal mainly in stinky tofu, as well as soybean curd, dried tofu and various other products.

Pickles.”

"Soon, the sales of stinky tofu expanded to the Northeast, Northwest, and North China."

"After many improvements, stinky tofu was introduced to the imperial kitchen in the late Qing Dynasty and became a daily side dish for the Empress Dowager Cixi."

"The Empress Dowager Cixi didn't like the name of stinky tofu, so she named it "Qingfang", which doubled the value of Wang Zhihe's stinky tofu."

"The three standing plaques in front of Wang Zhihe's door plus the painted dragon heads symbolize the meaning of "Great Internal Use"; the six words "Wang Zhihe Nanjiang Garden" are engraved on two plaques, respectively by Sun Jianai and Lu Qi, the number one scholar.

Light-titled book.”

"Sun Jianai wrote two acrostic couplets. One said: "The delicious food spreads to you thousands of miles away, and my secret nourishes the heart." The other one said: "The sauce is mixed with dragon pan and peony, and the chicken soles are blooming in the garden." The top of the crown

The horizontal reading is "Zhihe Sauce Garden"."

"Wang Zhihe's business is getting more and more prosperous, and everyone is competing to imitate it."

"During the Guangxu period, Wang Zhenghe, Wang Zhihe, Zhizhonghe and other soy sauce gardens were successively opened outside Xuanwumen, Yanshou Temple Street and other places."

“However, the most authentic one is Wang Zhihe’s brand.”

"The value of Wang Zhihe's brand today is so high that you can hardly imagine it."
Chapter completed!