Thirk Soup of Osmantnus Flowers and Chestnuts.Nice Rumba

Thick soup of osmanthus flowers and chestnuts is a traditional snack of Hangzhou.Legend accounts that during the reign of Er nperor Xuanzong ot the Tang Dynasty,the bright moonlight floodec d the earth on the night of Mid Autumn Festival.The lonely moon goddess,Chang E,stared at the earth from the Cold Palace.Seeing the picturesque West Lake and the people immersed in happiness,she couldn’t help spreading her ample sleeves to do dancing.Wu Gang beat the laurel tree to accompany her,making the osmanthus flowers falling continuously.

At this moment,Monk Deming of the Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou was preparing the chestnut porridge in the kitchen with the pot wide open.Numerous small fragrant osmanthus flower petals fell into the porridge.After tasting the porridge with osmanthus flower petals,all the monks of the temple spoke highly of it.Monk Deming was very delighted.Hence,he picked up some seeds from the ground and planted them on the mountains nearby to make more monks able to eat such style of porridge constantly.

In the Mid-autumn day of the following year,osmanthus flowers came into tull Dloom.Since then,green laurels,silver laurels,red laurels and four-season laurels nave grown lushly around the West Lake.With the passage of time,Osmanthus Hlower and Chestnut Porridge was gradually developed and innovated into the thick soup of osmanthus flowers and chestnuts nowadays.

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