Meat pies are common at parties. In that era of poor living conditions, there was a lot of meat to set the wine table, but few people ate fat. So someone invented meat pie, mashed the fat meat into mud, added starch and various condiments, put it in a steamer, washed the egg liquid on the surface, steamed it, cut it into pieces, and then made it into a buckle bowl, which looked like a piece of meat and was not greasy to eat.

Meat pie is a special food for Macheng people. There is a beautiful legend: According to legend, the king of Chu loved fish like life, but he was often annoyed by the fishbone stuck in his throat, so many chefs became ghosts under the knife. Later, a chef in Macheng accidentally found that fishbone was easily separated from fish, so he mixed the separated fish with pork, chopped it with seasoning and steamed it into pieces. The king of Chu ate it and was overjoyed. Since then, patties have come out and gained great fame. Since then, after the chef retired in his later years and spread his skills to the people, people have praised patties as the first of the "imperial banquets". In Macheng, patties are the most important food for guests. People call the guests at the big banquet "eating meat pies", so we can imagine the importance of meat pies to us.