What is the legendary story about Deep-fried dough stick？
2 min readDeep-fried dough stick is a traditional snack for breakfast.The origin of this snack is associated with Qin Hui who served as prime minister during the reign of the Southern Song Dynasty Emperor Gao Zong .
In 1138，Emperor Gao Zong designated Hangzhou as a“temporary capital，”and signed a peace agreement with the Jin Kingdom in 1142.The previous year had seen the death of Yue Fei ，one of China’s most celebrated generals.
However，the groundless accusation against Yue Fei was a snare secretly set up by Qin Hui and his wife.After hearing of Yue Fei’s death，common people in the capital were furious，and really came to hate Qin Hui and his wife.
At that time，there was an inn near where Yue Fei died that mainly sold oil-fried food.One day the boss of the inn was frying food when he heard of Yue Fei’s death.The terrible news caused him to lose control of himself，so he picked up a lump of flour dough from a basin and kneaded it into two small figures-a man and a woman.The boss pasted the two figures together back to back and dropped them into the oil pot while repeatedly shouting，”Come and eat deep-fried oil Qin Hui Upon hearing his shouting，people around understood what he was referring to.
Soon people gathered around the pot and ate the figures while shouting and helping the boss knead more figures.Other inns and restaurants in the same city quickly followed suit，frying dough in the“Qin Hui”way.This practice spreaded far and wide across the country and has continued through dynasties until the present time.
Today，people prefer to call this food the Deep-fried twisted dough stick rather than the oil-fried Qin Hui.
However，in some areas，local people still keep use the old name Deep-fried Hui or Deep-fried Ghost .
