The legendary Hukou lobster sauce originated in the Tang Dynasty, legend has it that a beggar woman, with women panhandles to Poyang Lake estuary, while local residents were kind of black beans (black) health life, daily door-to-door for beggar Niang beans for dinner, the children eat long for the tired, he kept mother will some cooked black beans into the basket, long and scutellaria foliage cover, mother, was found. But out of Scutellaria leaves, found the basket in the black bean has a thick layer of mold. Although the musty, but this to begging for a living mother could not bear to throw away, put the beans on mycophenolate washed into the pot for later use, to avoid black bean and moldy, she deliberately sprinkled a handful of salt.

 
     After 10 days, the beggar woman carrying children begging back together, just the door to smell a strange smell, the house looking for, finally found is crock of ripe black bean out. Try to eat, delicious flavor, mellow, overflow, crisp and sweet, sweet but not greasy. Then, the beggar woman used this approach in treatment for beans, meanwhile, are hundreds of grace, every day, fifteen beggar woman would give to the temple as a vegetarian meal for human food seasoning, the pilgrims, all praise the vast, ask what taste, answer: "bean addicted!"

      Since then, Hukou Shizhongshan temple for Yang Zhai Ke food flavor, to live to imitate its method and improved year after production, extended for household flavoring, Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, the name is "lobster sauce".

      But the world famous Hukou fermented soybean, there is another legend. Qing Xianfeng years, Gaoan county has a surname Lu small cobbler, specially the ancestral MuLV (a set of the shoes outside Yu Xie in ancient times). Have a year of Gaoan flooding, forced livelihoods, small cobbler with his wife, after several twists and turns, to Hukou to live down. Zainian everywhere, small cobbler do MuLV also can not be sold in Hukou. Fortunately, Hukou county is the Yangtze River, Poyang Lake port city, convenient transportation, with customers more, small cobbler craft, not MuLV can mend shoes, boots, therefore, by mending boots can finally make a living.

 
      One day the little cobbler shop, found that many local farmers pick a black market, stepped forward and asked the price is not expensive, clever little cobbler think, why not do this black bean sell? Come back and his wife to discuss, he bought ten pounds of black beans, found the tubs, jar, carefully selected beans, washing, cooking, covered with straw, let the beans. After a ten day, small clawed at the straw, bean was a thick layer of white mold clothing, they were filled with joy, immediately put the musty beans onto the Shizhongshan Rockies head, let Poyang Lake water slowly washed clean. Then go home and tedding, into the tub. A few days later, the basin sent bursts of fragrance, his wife opened the lid to look, oh, no! This lobster sauce black and bright, rich flavor!
      The couple is happy, the fermented got the street to sell immediately. The passers-by look, this Douchi particle symmetry, black and see the light, the spice, ten pounds of lobster sauce were sold out. Since then, small cobbler do lobster sauce a sensation in Hukou double bell town, business is booming too busy not to come over, but simply the work not done, as one of the sale do lobster sauce, and Business Flourishes. This is the "Lushi black bean sauce," the predecessor.
In the late Qing Dynasty, although the war continued, all withered disadvantages, soy sauce production, while Lushi has not stopped. Start making a workshop, and later to the six workshop. With an annual output of more than one thousand Dan of Hukou lobster sauce, fermented Hukou eventually become famous on both sides of the Changjiang River Tutemingchan.
       Hukou lobster sauce spread so far, because of its long history, technology of authentic, delicious sweet quiet, popular on both sides of the Changjiang River, and become the famous Jiangnan China history, also is a native of Hukou County, Jiujiang Shizhongshan bean product Limited company "Shizhongshan" brand of Hukou lobster sauce uphold traditional authentic Technology, and combined with modern science and technology, Seiko production, products sold at inside and outside.
        Because of the unique position and the historical origin of Hukou lobster sauce, tempeh production process in Hukou in 2010 approved by the Jiangxi provincial government as "provincial intangible cultural heritage" in 2011, "Shizhongshan" brand won the Ministry of Commerce as "China Time-honored brand".