There are many things steamed in cages, and not all foods have the word "steamed"

Steamed dumplings is a kind of pasta, which is found in the north and south of China. There are many varieties. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong, people call it steamed dumplings, while in Beijing and other places, it is called steamed dumplings.

Shao Shao is a China native with a long history. According to the earliest historical records, Park Tong Tong, a Chinese textbook published by North Korea (now North Korea) in the Yuan Dynasty, recorded that Dadu (now Beijing) sold "plain and sour stuffing with a little wheat". The annotation about "steamed dumplings" in the book is that wheat flour is made into thin slices, steamed in meat and served with soup. It's called Shaomai in dialect. Wheat is also for sale. Another cloud said, "thin skin and real flesh." The top is as thin as a thread, which is called wheat. " "With flour as the skin and meat as the top, the dialect is called steamed dumplings." If we compare the formula of "Little Wheat" here with that of steamed dumplings today, we can see that they are the same thing.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, although the word "steamed dumplings" was still used, names such as "steamed dumplings" and "steamed dumplings" appeared, and "steamed dumplings" appeared more frequently. For example, there is a description of "selling peach blossoms" in Jin Ping Mei Hua Ci. The word "a little wheat" appears in books such as Yangzhou Painting Boat and Tongqiao Chair. The cookbook Tiaodingji compiled by an anonymous person in Qing Dynasty included steamed dumplings with Meat, steamed dumplings with Bean Paste and steamed dumplings with Oil and Sugar. Among them, "Laoxian steamed dumplings" takes chicken and ham as raw materials and seasonal dishes as fillings. "Stir-fried sugar" is filled with diced suet, walnut kernel and white sugar. There is also a "marinated" asparagus dish in the south of China. Nowadays, the varieties sold everywhere are richer and more exquisite. For example, Henan has cut stuffing to sell; Duck oil is sold in An Wei; Hangzhou has roast beef; Jiangxi has eggs and meat; Shandong Linqing has mutton steamed dumplings; Suzhou has three kinds of delicious food for sale; Guangzhou has crab meat, pork liver, beef and ribs, all of which have their own local characteristics.