上个月我去西安出差,闲暇之余,我到西安的小吃街品尝了几回羊肉泡馍,那种香而不腻的感觉给我留下了美好的印象。于是我想,这羊肉泡馍肯定有点来历。我怀着好奇心,找到过去曾在博物馆工作多年、现已退休的研究当地风土人情的专家张文先生,请他讲讲羊肉泡馍的来历。张先生告诉我,相传在五代末期,赵匡胤因未得志而穷困潦倒流落长安(今西安)时,身上只剩下两块干馍,难以下咽。他恳求一家羊肉铺的店主给一碗羊肉汤,顺手把馍掰碎泡在汤里,馍也软,汤 Last month, I went to Xi’an for business trip. In my spare time, I went to snack bar in Xi’an to taste a few mutton dishes. The fragrant but not too sweet feeling left a good impression on me. So I think, this is certainly a bit of a bubble of bubble originated. With curiosity, I found Mr. Zhang Wen, an expert who has been working in the museum for many years and now retired to study the local customs and practices, and asked him about the origins of the mutton steamed bun. Mr. Zhang told me that according to legend, in the late Five Dynasties, Zhao Kuangyin was unable to swallow because of the unattainable impoverished Chang’an (present-day Xi’an). He begged a mutton shop owner to give a bowl of mutton soup, easily shovel broken in the soup, 馍 also soft, soup