How did Chinese sausages come about?

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I would say it's probably independently discovered. Since it's not a real stretch to put meat scraps together to not waste food. In fact in China, there's a 6th century agricultural manual that contained instructions for making sausages. So I think it's more plausible that the ancient Chinese discovered sausages by themselves so early in history.

According to Wikipedia, modern Cantonese style sausages was invented in 1894 by a Cantonese porridge shop owner, who stuffed intestines with the leftover pork and pig liver from his store. The Northeastern type of Chinese was apparently introduced by a Lithuanian cook in the early 20th century. These are probably varieties though, while people would be familiar with the concept.

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