Somes dishes have strange name. who is General Tao?

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Here are some friends with simlar question as we.And I have this question for many days,anyone help us?
Kitty said: Yes.Somes dishes have strange name. who is General Tao?-I try seach this on internet but no results found.Maybe this is a stupid question.
Mike said: oh,no,you are wrong.I have found as below for this question(Somes dishes have strange name. who is General Tao?),it will help you,my kids.

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General Tso's chicken
It is unclear how the dish came to bear the name of the 19th-century Chinese war hero General Zuo Zongtang (左宗棠, 1812-1885). Zuo himself is unlikely ever to have tasted the dish. Also, there are contradictory accounts as to the origin of the dish. The author of the book Chinese Kitchen, Eileen Yin-Fei Lo, states that the dish has Hunan origins (this speculation may have been because of the prevalence of hot and spicy flavors in Hunan cuisine). Other sources credit the origin of the dish to New York City's Chinatown in the 1970s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Tso's_chicken


Zuǒ Zōngtáng (左宗棠) (November 10, 1812-September 5, 1885), spelled Tso Tsung-t'ang in Wade-Giles and known simply as General Tso to Westerners, was a gifted Chinese military leader born in Wenjialong, north of Changsha in Hunan province, during the waning of the Qing Dynasty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuo_Zongtang

Other Answers:
He is a man probably!!1.^_^

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