A Cannibalistic Legend

Last night, my roommate told me this crazy legend about a popular Chinese breakfast food. She sent me the following information in an email (which I assume is from wikipedia):

The Story of Yue Fei states that after having Yue Fei, Yue Yun, and Zhang Xian arrested under false charges, Qin and his wife, Lady Wang (Chinese: 王氏), were sitting by the "eastern window", warming themselves by the fire, when he received a letter from the people calling for the release of the general. Qin was worried because after nearly two months of torture, he could not get Yue Fei to admit the false charges of treason and would eventually have to let him go. However, after a servant girl brought fresh oranges into the room, Lady Wang devised a plan to execute the general. She told Qin to slip an execution notice inside the skin of an orange and send it to the examining judge. This way, the general and his companions would be put to death before the Emperor or Qin himself would have to rescind an open order of execution.[2] This conspiracy became known as the “East-Window Plot”.[3] An anonymous novel was written about this called the Dong Chuang Ji ("Tale of the Eastern Window") during the Ming Dynasty.[4] When asked by General Han Shizhong what crime Yue had committed, Qin Hui replied, "Though it isn't sure whether there is something that he did to betray the dynasty, maybe there is.” [5] The phrase "unneeded", simplified Chinese: 莫须有; traditional Chinese: 莫須有; pinyin: mò xū yǒu) has entered the Chinese language as an expression to refer to fabricated charges.[6][7] For their part in Yue Fei's death, iron statues of Qin Hui, Lady Wang, and two of Qin Hui's subordinates, Moqi Xie and Zhang Jun, were made to kneel before Yue Fei's tomb (located byHangzhou's West Lake). For centuries, these statues have been cursed, spat and urinated upon by young and old. But now, in modern times, these statues are protected as historical relics.[8] There is a poem hanging on the gate surrounding the statues, it reads: "The green hill is fortunate to be the burial ground of a loyal general, the white iron was innocent to be cast into the statues of traitors."[9] The story of Qin and his wife are also said to be the origin of Youtiao[10]. Folk etymology The Cantonese name yàuhjagwái literally means "oil-fried devil" and, according to folklore, is an act of protest against Song Dynasty official Qin Hui, who is said to have orchestrated the plot to frame the general Yue Fei, an icon of patriotism in Chinese culture. It is said that the food, originally in the shape of two human-shaped pieces of dough but later evolved into two pieces joined in the middle, represents Qin Hui and his wife, both having a hand in collaborating with the enemy to bring about the great general's demise. Thus the youtiao is deep fried and eaten as if done to the traitorous couple. In keeping with the legend, youtiao are often made as two foot-long rolls of dough joined along the middle, with one roll representing the husband and the other the wife.[6] The Fried Bread Stick (Youtiao), a type of cooked wheaten food of long strip, is a breakfast dessert in China. Its surface is crisp and the inside part is soft; it looks golden and tastes dainty. It is a popular traditional food for breakfast in China. The Fried Bread Stick is also called “Youzhahui” or “Deep Fried Ghost (Youzhagui)”. It is said that the Fried Bread Stick was a breakfast food invented by the people of Hangzhou during the South Song Dynasty. In 1142, the national hero Yue Fei was killed by Qin Hui in the Storm Pavilion (Fengbo Pavilion), near which there was a refreshment shop specializing in deep-fried foods at that time; when the boss of the shop, who was frying foods, heard the news that Yue Fei and his wife were killed by Qin Hui, he couldn’t  control his angry and threw two pastes tweaked by him in the shapes of a man and a woman into the oil boiler, while crying:” Come to eat fried Qin Hui!” After hearing this, the surrounding people, who understood his meaning, came to eat and cried with him. Later other refreshment shops followed him, making the whole Lin’an City begin to make “Youzhahui”. Today, although “Youzhahui” is called “Fried Bread Stick” in many regions, it is still called “Youzhahui” or “Deep Fried Ghost (Youzhagui)” in some regions. This legend transformed the ordinary process of having Fried Bread Stick into the process of “eat” the hated man. Actually, The Fried Bread Stick enjoys a long history. The Fried Bread Stick was called “Hanju” anciently. Liu Yuxi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once described the shape and production process of the Fried Bread Stick in his poems. The Fried Bread Stick is called “Guozi” in most regions of north China. “Guozi” means dim sum. Due to its popularity, the Fried Bread Stick almost becomes the substituted name of breakfast in North China.  The Fried Bread Stick can not only be eaten in full, but also can be eaten in many ways. For example, it can be torn into pieces and mixed with the soybean milk, be wrapped with rice, or fried or braised with shrimps after being chopped. I don't think that I'll ever be able to eat these knowing why Chinese people created them...