what is general tso's chicken in chinese
General Tso's chicken There are several stories concerning the origin of the dish. Eileen Yin-Fei Lo states in her book The Chinese Kitchen that the dish originates from a simple Hunan chicken dish and that the reference to "Zongtang" was not a reference to Zuo Zongtang's given name, but rather a reference to the homonym "zongtang", meaning "ancestral meeting hall".[4] Consistent with this interpretation, the dish name is sometimes (but considerably less commonly) found in Chinese as "Zuo ancestral hall chicken" (Chung tong gai is a transliteration of "ancestral meeting hall chicken" from Cantonese; Zuǒ Zōngtáng jī is the standard name of General Tso's chicken as transliterated from Mandarin).
Chickenpox Why the term was used is not clear but it may be due to it being a relatively mild disease.[14] It has been said to be derived from chickpeas, based on resemblance of the vesicles to chickpeas,[14][71][72] or to come from the rash resembling chicken pecks.[72] Other suggestions include the designation chicken for a child (i.e., literally 'child pox'), a corruption of itching-pox,[71][73] or the idea that the disease may have originated in chickens.[74] Samuel Johnson explained the designation as "from its being of no very great danger".[75]