驴肉火烧是怎么来的？到现在应该还有好多的朋友不知道呢？
How did the donkey meat come from the fire? By now, there should be many friends who don't know?
保定的驴肉火烧据说起源于明初。朱棣起兵谋反，杀到如今的保定北部徐水漕河一带，打了一场败仗。燕王眼瞅着饿得就要见阎王去了。士兵出了个主意，要他效仿古人杀马吃。
Baoding's donkey meat fire is said to have originated in the early Ming Dynasty. Zhu Di started a rebellion and fought a losing battle in Caohe, Xushui, north of Baoding. The King of Swallows was so hungry that he was about to die. The soldier came up with an idea and asked him to follow the example of the ancients.
其实所谓“驴肉香，马肉臭，打死不吃骡子肉”，马肉纤维比较粗，不是特别好吃。但是饥不择食，就把马肉煮熟了夹着当地做的火烧吃了。哪知味道还很不错。于是后来当地老百姓也开始杀马做“马肉火烧”，而且马肉火烧因为曾经被皇上吃过而声名大振。
As a matter of fact, the so-called "donkey meat smells good, horse meat smells bad, and you don't eat mule meat when you kill it" means that horse meat is not particularly delicious because of its thick fiber. But he was so desperate that he cooked the horse meat and ate it with the local fire. It tastes good. Later, local people began to kill horses to make "horse meat fire", and horse meat fire became famous because it was once eaten by the emperor.
但是好景不长，没过多久，因为和蒙古人打仗需要马。这里的马可不是做火烧吃的死马，而是活生生的战马。马成了战略物资，当然就不能由着老百姓做火烧吃了。但是想吃马肉火烧了怎么办啊？
But the good times didn't last long. It didn't take long, because we needed horses to fight with Mongolians. The horses here are not dead horses for cooking, but live fighting horses. Horses have become strategic materials, and of course, people can't burn them. But what if you want to eat horse meat and burn it?
于是就出现了替代品——驴肉。驴肉纤维比马肉细腻，而且纯瘦不肥，自古就是下肴的佳品。而且保定一带，属于冀中平原，水草肥美，最适合养驴。河北地区的驴有两种，一种是沿海一带的渤海驴，一种是山区和平原的太行驴。
So there is a substitute - donkey meat. Donkey meat is more delicate than horse meat, and it is pure thin but not fat. It has been a good dish since ancient times. In addition, Baoding belongs to the central Hebei plain, with fertile water and grass, which is most suitable for raising donkeys. There are two kinds of donkeys in Hebei, one is the Bohai donkey in the coastal area, and the other is the Taihang donkey in the mountains and plains.