Danyang is an ancient city with a long history in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. Anyone who has been here knows that the stone carvings and yellow wine in the Southern Dynasties are its two famous features. However, only familiar people know that there is also an ordinary but unusual food here: barley porridge. As long as you have tasted it, you will never forget the endless aftertaste brought by Huang Chengcheng rice porridge. Speaking of unusual barley porridge, there is another story in history. Danyang is a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, and the famous Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal passes through the city, so the water transportation here was quite developed in the early years. When Gan Long went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he took the concubines of civil and military officials in the harem, and took a dragon boat to make a mighty southern tour along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. All the way through the counties, officials at all levels in Futai County took out the most luxurious local delicacies to meet them, for fear of being slightly neglected. After the patrol, the fleet came to Danyang. This can be anxious for the county grandfather here. Because of the local poverty, the county grandfather thought hard and couldn't think of anything delicious to entertain the emperor and his party. There is really no way. He had a brainwave and sent someone to cook a large pot of highland barley porridge, the staple food of local people's homes. I hope to give the emperor a fresh picture. Unexpectedly, once tasted, porridge is really pleasing to the eye. This porridge is not only rich in wheat flavor, but also very delicious, so I ordered Guan Bai to make an exception and stayed in this small town in the south of the Yangtze River for three more days. Eating too much fish and meat, and occasionally tasting such delicious and refreshing barley porridge is of course a surprise. But if you eat it for three days, Qianlong can't stand it. By the next day, a bunch of people were hungry. It's just that the emperor promised to stay here for three days and can't go back on his word, so the ministers and concubines of Qianlong can only drink highland barley porridge for three days and three nights. Before leaving, Gan Long sent out a sentence full of emotion: Danyang, really sad! This sentence later spread to the people, passed around, and actually became: Danyang people are all barley porridge! Whether the legend is true or not, barley porridge is indeed a major local feature, and it is indispensable to almost every family's breakfast table. The cooking of this kind of barley porridge is quite particular. Barley flour is ground with barley or wheat. When cooking porridge, take a bowl of clear water, add two teaspoons of barley flour and mix well. After the rice porridge is boiled, stir it with a spoon and slowly pour it in. Then cut a little edible alkali with a knife and sprinkle it in the porridge to enhance the flavor. Porridge can be eaten when it turns yellow slightly. After the pot is boiled, it is called a fragrance, which really increases the appetite. It's really beautiful if it's served with local sweet and crisp dried radish! Only now, people have more and more breakfasts and more choices, and no one wants to spend so much effort on porridge, and barley porridge has gradually become history.