What is the origin of bad soup?

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, Taizhou Linhai was still a small fishing village and was often robbed and harassed by pirates. At that time, Weichi Gong, the secretariat of Taizhou, mobilized soldiers to build a city against theft. On the day of construction, it happened to be the fourteenth day of the first month. As usual, the people want to celebrate the Lantern Festival, and pirates take the opportunity to enter. When Weichi Gong heard the news, he sent troops to resist and stepped up his defense.

In the evening, it snowed and people were discussing how to express their inner gratitude. Some people suggested sending food and wine to keep out the cold, but the secretariat ordered the soldiers not to drink. What should we do?

An old man thought of a good way to kill two birds with one stone: use bad new wine as water, add good vegetables and powder, stir it into "bad soup" and send it. The soldiers were full of energy after eating "bad soup" and soon built the city wall. Since then, the custom of "bad soup" in Lantern Festival has been passed down from generation to generation.

Classification of bad soup:

Bad soup is divided into sweet soup and salty soup, which is usually eaten by every family at the age of fourteen. Salted soup is mainly made of 10 kinds of vegetables, meat and seafood, cut into granules, stir-fried until half cooked, and then added with rice flour paste or starch paste.

Sweet soup is mainly rice cakes, Sichuan watercress, candied oranges, raisins and small dumplings. Old people in Linhai usually drink soup without spoons, but with chopsticks. What's more, they squatted at the door with a bowl of rotten soup in their hands, without chopsticks and spoons. They walked along the edge of the bowl, turned around and gulped down, and a bowl of rotten soup had already entered their stomachs.