For many outsiders, it seems to be a commonplace thing to have a water seat in Luoyang.

For the first time I heard the Luoyang water seat, it was many years ago in high school, when Ma Xiaoliang thought that the Luoyang water seat was to sit and eat together with water on the edge of the Yellow River, and it was very strange why it was called a water seat.

It wasn't until Ma Xiaoliang graduated from college that he came to Luoyang for the first time after graduating from university, and he saw what the real Luoyang water seat was, and he was immediately angry and funny, but one thing was clear: for two people, there were a lot of Luoyang water seats, not only many but also very much.

took Zhao Cui to find a particularly small store, Zhao Cui looked at this not too clean shop with some disgust, and immediately sarcastically mocked Ma Xiaoliang: "I think you still took me to find all kinds of delicious shops in Shunde back then, at least it looks very clean, and now ten years have passed, you actually brought me to this kind of place, I really have a new love and forget the old love, a generation is not as good as a generation." Ma Xiaoliang hurriedly explained: "Don't look at the small area of this store, but the thieves are delicious, but because of the peony festival, there are many thieves, so it doesn't look so clean." Zhao Cui was silent and sat down obediently.

When it comes to Luoyang water seats, I have to mention one person, this is the source of Luoyang water seats: Yuan Tiankui of the Tang Dynasty.

According to legend, Yuan Tiangang watched the sky on Chinese New Year's Eve and knew that Wu Zetian would become emperor in the future, but the heavenly opportunity could not be revealed, so he designed this banquet to herald Wu Zetian's wine and meat situation in the next twenty-four years.

The soup and water of each dish allude to Wu Zetian's natural success; Dry and thin, it is a metaphor for Wu Zetian's twenty-four years of dry (thin).

The dish sequence of "Luoyang Water Seat" is the first eight products (cold dishes), four town tables, eight large pieces, and four sweeping tails, a total of 24 dishes, which corresponds to Wu Zetian's 24 years from the first year of Yonglong to the first year of Shenlong's death in Luoyang Palace.

However, there is also a saying: Luoyang is surrounded by mountains, and the rain is little and dry. In ancient times, the weather was cold and no fruit was produced, so the folk diet mostly used soups, and liked sour and hot to resist the dry and cold.

People here are accustomed to using locally produced starch, lotus vegetables, yams, radish, cabbage, etc. to make economical and rich soup banquets, and even the princes and nobles are used to cooking the main and sideline foods together, and over time gradually create a Luoyang water banquet with local characteristics, and gradually form

The flavor of "sour and spicy, refreshing and sharp". All in all, the Luoyang water mat is a full set of twenty-four dishes, as a traditional food style, and the traditional peony flower club, the ancient Longmen Grottoes, and called Luoyang three uniques, known as the ancient capital of Luoyang's three different winds, become the pride of Luoyang people.

For Ma Xiaoliang at this moment, the first choice is how to choose the cuisine, if it is two people, you can eat a small water seat, but there are also 12 dishes.

At this moment, Ma Xiaoliang didn't seem to be able to find someone to share with, so he said to the boss: "Have a small water seat, the portion is a little less." The boss was busy and said, "Okay, you choose for yourself, and you will choose for me." Ma Xiaoliang handed the menu to Zhao Cui, meaning that you can choose.

Zhao Cui looked at it and said: "I don't eat vermicelli, I don't want fans, nothing else." Hearing this, Ma Xiaoliang couldn't help but feel a little sad, remembering the sentence: "I'm hungry, I don't want to eat vermicelli, I want to eat pork stewed vermicelli", why did he not eat vermicelli at this time?

However, Ma Xiaoliang didn't think much about it, but chose 12 dishes, absolutely no vermicelli, vermicelli and pork, and handed them to the boss.

After a while, one dish after another was served, Luoyang water mat has a way to eat, that is, after eating one, and then on the other, like flowing water, Zhao Cui put down the chopsticks after a few bites of each dish, and finally the table was piled up into a hill, Ma Xiaoliang said helplessly: "Boss, pack!" ”