Why did the minister reject Gan Long's elbow?

Quite simply, to put it bluntly, the elbow is really terrible! Of course, this is actually unofficial history's record, which can't be true.

It is said that the emperors of the Qing Dynasty liked pork very much. On holidays, they will let the royal kitchen kill pigs and eat pork. Of course, Emperor Qianlong was no exception.

During the royal sacrifice, Emperor Qianlong ordered the pigs to be killed in public and cooked directly without any seasoning. When they were cooked for seven or eight minutes, Emperor Qianlong expressed his intention and then gave the meat to the ministers.

However, the pork is cooked to a medium level without any seasoning. Of course, it tastes like chewing wax, and most people can't swallow it at all, let alone officials who are used to eating delicacies. Officials are also very upset about this. Someone thought of a way, that is, before the sacrifice, soak kraft paper with salt, soy sauce and other seasonings, and then wrap the sacrifice with pork, so that it is not difficult to swallow the pork below.

But there is a man in the palace who likes pork very much. This man is Ji Xiaolan. It is said that Ji Xiaolan can eat a few pounds of meat even with a cup of tea. After the sacrifice, Emperor Qianlong rewarded the ministers with elbows. Ministers, of course, dare not throw them away in front of Emperor Qianlong, but after leaving the palace, they threw their elbows into Ji Xiaolan's sedan chair. Ji Xiaolan also came to the net and ate all the elbows happily.

In fact, the pork sacrificed by Qianlong is also called "braised pork", and eating braised pork is also a very glorious thing. The reason why the Qing Dynasty passed on braised pork was to let the emperors and officials not forget the difficulties of the national war. However, eating braised pork in the end only became a form and did not play its due role.