In Shanxi Province you may be offered brains to eat. Frightened? You shouldn’t be. Because these brains are only food，which is famous for its name and rich nutrition (营养). Brains as a food were invented more than 300 years ago by Fu Shan，an artist whose mother had been ill for a long time. To help her become well again，he studied medicine and invented a kind of soup which was made of meat，vegetables and of Chinese medicines. Rice wine was also used in the soup to help illness caused by old age. After taking the soup，his mother got better little by little and lived a long life.
Fu’s soup became the talk of the town. Many people came to see him. One day a restaurant keeper asked him what was in the soup. “I’ll tell you，” Fu said，“But if your restaurant is going to sell the soup you must call it brains because of its shape and colour. And your restaurant should be called after my mother.”
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