Zeng Guofan is a very thrifty person, but he also cooks some dishes with some expensive ingredients when entertaining guests. He handed down a dish called Zeng's velvet antler.

1, health expert

We all know that Zeng Guofan is a man who pays great attention to self-cultivation, so he is very studious about the aftercare of his body and is also very particular about the ingredients. He usually eats very simply, and only when guests come will he cook them well with very precious herbs. Mainly the health care method advocated by Zeng Guofan, which is to take medicine when the disease comes and stop when the disease goes. Therefore, most of him liked to use some Chinese herbal medicines to cook food in order to achieve the purpose of keeping in good health, so Zeng Guofan was a health expert in China at that time. Moreover, he has access to many precious medicinal materials, so the dishes he invented, cooked with precious Chinese medicinal materials, are very famous.

Zeng Guofan likes to eat velvet antler.

Because Zeng Guofan likes keeping in good health very much and has a special love for velvet antler, in order to maintain his own style, Zeng Guofan invented a dish made of velvet antler, but it is not the same as usual. Zeng Guofan cooked pilose antler with his favorite cooking method, which made people like it very much after eating it, so this dish has been spread to this day. He has a good knowledge of velvet antler, and he should try to get rid of the bad taste of velvet antler itself, leaving only its fragrance and its nourishing effect.

To sum up, the reason why they can make such great achievements is mainly because they can persist in learning, even when cooking.