"Outside the building, Qingshan Lou outside the building, the West Lake singing and dancing for a few hours, the warm wind smokes tourists drunk, straight to Hangzhou as a state of Bizhou."
Lin Sheng's "Title Lin'an Residence" of the Song Dynasty can be described as a household name, but for people from other provinces, it is difficult to know that there is a building outside the West Lake in Hangzhou. "Where is the beauty of the vinegar fish in the West Lake, the only hangzhou building outside the building." That's it.
Premier Zhou has visited the outer building nine times, and has long become a good story for the outer building. In addition, the outer building has also received heads of state such as Prince Sihanouk and many foreign dignitaries, which can be said to have a certain reputation in the world.
Early buildings outside the building. It can be said that it is a predecessor, just a small restaurant with only one floor and one bottom. The name of the "outer building" of the "outer building" with such a magnificent and elegant momentum and artistic conception seems to have a feeling of "dead support for the noodles".
However, the shop owner who can take such a name must be a cultured person, unlike now, the streets and alleys are all "old Song restaurants" and "old king restaurants", blindly grounded and flowing in ordinary products.
According to historical records, the earliest person to record this name is the famous modern scholar Yu Pingbo, in his "A Brief Discussion on the Diet of Hangzhou and Beijing", after returning from studying in the United States, he lived in the Yu Building about 100 meters west of the "Louwai Lou". For the literati, this name must be impressive, and he himself should be very familiar with the changes of the "outer building".
In an article he wrote about the naming of the outer building, he said: "Its name is due to the verse 'Qingshan Louwailou outside the mountain', but it is also related to Yu Lou. "This is by far the most widely circulated saying." The building outside the Yu Building" and the poem "The outer building of the Qingshan Building outside the mountain", kill two eagles with one stone or a pun.
The list of the first dishes launched by the owner Hong Ruitang, many of which are related to the southern song dynasty, so it is well-documented and logical that he used the poem "Qingshan LouwaiLouwailou outside the mountain" in the Southern Song Dynasty poet Lin Sheng's "Title Lin'an Residence" as the name of the shop. He himself should be a history buff.
Louwailou, in fact, refers to the bank of the West Lake, some people say, then why not call it "LakeWailou"?
Ruan Yicheng, who served as the director of the Civil Affairs Department of Zhejiang Province during the Republic of China period, was very fond of collecting historical allusions from Hangzhou, and was a frequent visitor to the outer building, and he wrote in the "Three Sentences Do Not Leave the Book of "Hang"": "The name of the outer building of the West Lake Building is derived from the Song poetry 'The outer building of the Qingshan Building outside the mountain'. However, the so-called outer building of the Song people refers to the chonglou stacked pavilion on the lake. If there is a green mountain outside the mountain, it does not specify a certain mountain. ”
Therefore, it is not "lake out of the lake" for this reason.
Knowing that there is a good name, but also a good plaque, for the catering industry, the sign is the most important. For the "outer building", the writing of this golden signboard can also take a lot of trouble.
In the early years, the owner was a fallen literati who paid attention to the way of culture. Whenever a literati and inker came to the shop, if he was willing to leave all his poems and paintings as guests and serve meals for free, this old habit has always been preserved.
Qu Yuangong, who lived in Yu Lou in the early years, once wrote a plaque for him, but unfortunately he could not find it later.
After that, Ding Fuzhi of xiling printing society recommended a calligraphy enthusiast named Zhang Jian in Hangzhou to write a "Louwailou" plaque, Zhang Jian very cleverly changed the two "Lou" into two words with different structures, so that the middle "Wai" character echoed with the "Lou" character on both sides.
Wu Changshuo, the first president of Xiling Printing Agency, accidentally saw a sudden awakening. He believes that the three words "LouWai Lou", Junxiu is tall, and the rules and regulations are also extremely unique, but there is no writer on the store signboard, he asked the owner Hong brothers, only to know that it was written by Zhang Jian, a young man in Hangzhou City.
Until 1966, for some reasons, the three characters of "Louwailou" were replaced by a new Wei stele. In 1980, the new building outside the building was completed, and the original gold signboard was restored.
The current building has a higher popularity because of the West Lake, a world-famous attraction. His status, like Quanjude in Beijing, is not only super popular in the local area, but also unmissable for foreign tourists.
Many people may know his West Lake vinegar fish, Longjing shrimp, vegetarian roast goose, small steamed buns, wine stuffed dumpling soup, Dongpo meat, called flower chicken and other delicacies. I don't know anything about the origin of the building's name.
The combination of cooking and culture in the outer building of the building has made many books record this, and it is recorded in the four-volume "West Lake Yanglian" of the Zhizhixuan Tibetan edition, the fourteenth volume of the "West Lake New Chronicle" edited by Hu Xianghan in 1921, and the "Journey to Jiangnan" written by the famous Japanese writer Ryunosuke Wasagawa.
The next time you have the honor to take a friend to visit the West Lake, don't just say "Outside the building Qingshan LouwaiLou".