Once upon a time, steamed buns were not called steamed buns, but buns were called steamed buns, and later, buns were called buns, and steamed buns became buns, all of which originated in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Rumor has it that buns were invented by Zhuge Liang to replace the barbarian custom of sacrificing human heads, so they were named steamed buns, harmonized with "barbarian", and were filled.
Pasta was initially not common in China, the people's standard of living is limited, this kind of fine food, and not for the public acceptance, until the Han Dynasty, the pasta has really developed.
Noodles
But limited to the production conditions at that time, most of the pasta is cake-shaped, therefore, the pasta are to "a cake" for the name. Noodles, for example, were originally called "noodle cakes".
Then the buns steamed buns, uniformly called "steam cake", this name, to the Song Dynasty has changed, because the Song Renzong name is Zhaozhen, in order to avoid the taboo, "steam cake" into "cooking cake! "
This is the first time I've seen this.
That is to say, the Song Dynasty, "cooking cakes" is actually the current steamed bread, have seen the "Water Margin" know, Wu Dailang's "cooking cakes" made the appearance of steamed bread.
Buns
But the Song Dynasty still have steamed buns as a food, the steamed buns at that time is actually buns, Jin Dynasty, "Cake Fugue" recorded, "steamed buns" is meat-filled buns.
But there was actually another food called "baozi", which was made of lotus leaves and bean skins wrapped with fillings, and was called baozi.
Here, we can find that in the Song Dynasty, steamed buns were called "cooking cakes", noodles were called "noodle cakes", buns were called "steamed buns", and bean buns were called "baozi". "Baozi".
Steamed buns
After the Song Dynasty, with the migration of population, the change of times and other factors, steamed buns and buns called gradually confused.
To this day, only gradually formed the northern people tube without filling called steamed buns, with filling called buns; and the South, with filling without filling are called steamed buns, or no filling instead called buns.