Dongxiang hand grasping is a representative of Linxia is a famous food, has been hundreds of years of production history. In the past, due to the street stalls along the sale, eaters to the hand to grab, which is the origin of the word "hand grab". Now do not have to eat by hand, but still use the word "hand" there is a kind of circulation: "said the hand, think of Linxia", "guests come, do not eat a hand, in vain to Linxia". So the Dongxiang hand grab almost became a masterpiece of food culture in Hezhou. According to the evidence, Linxia was called "Quercus" in ancient times, and the sheep in Hezhou, also known as "Quercus sheep", used to be the tribute of the imperial court, and the "Quercus Red Marrow Capricorn Meat" has been famous for a long time. The Dongxiang Autonomous County in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture has deep mountains and ditches, with little drought and rainfall, and the pasture grass has little water content and is fat and nutritious, thus the Dongxiang mutton is fat and tender, with little fiber and delicate meat, rich in protein and many kinds of microelements, which can strengthen the body's resistance and immune function by eating for a long time, and it has the effect of warming the kidneys and strengthening the broth, strengthening the body and refreshing the spirit, tonifying the spleen and strengthening the stomach, beautifying and nourishing the face and prolonging the years and life, etc. It is said that Hezhou girls' skin is delicate and delicate. It is said that the river state girl skin delicate, beautiful and multi-capital, face water dew, "red place red, white place white", and from childhood to eat mutton related.

The party's reform and opening up, the development of economic policy to Dongxiang hand-held mutton injected vigor and vitality, from the traditional eating "flat partner" has developed to the feeding, trafficking, making, selling and even exporting a dragon of the socialized industrial chain, from all over the state to the northwestern adjoining areas such as Lanzhou, Dongxiang hand-held Museum Lin Li Zhi Bu, it is said that in the It is said that in Lanzhou Xiaoxihu Dongxiang bosses open the "Zhonghua hand grasping king" daily sales of hundreds of sheep. Beef, lamb-based unique halal flavor food has cut a large piece of cake in Lanzhou and even the northwest catering industry.