1, steamed bread refers to the use of flour and water after fermentation and then steamed food. Although our country is very early planting wheat, known as "five grains" one, "Poetry ● Wei Feng Shuo rat" has "Shuo rat Shuo rat, no food I wheat" record. But until the Han Dynasty, wheat flour made food are not fermented, all the sheet or block of pasta collectively referred to as "cake". The baked ones were called "oven cakes", and the ones with "houma (sesame)" were called "hu cakes" (after Zhang Qian's mission to the West, because "houma" was introduced from the West). "is introduced from the West), boiled is called" soup cake "(not noodles, but noodle soup or noodle soup).

2, steamed bread first appeared in the Wei and Jin Dynasties after the Eastern Han Dynasty, when it was called "steamed cake". The Book of Jin, "Volume 33," the third biography "He Zeng biography" recorded that the then big bureaucrat He Zeng life is very extravagant, the daily food expenses amounted to ten thousand dollars. Among the food, there were "steamed cakes" (steamed buns): "(He Zeng) was extravagant and lavish. Tent and car clothing, the poor extremely beautiful, kitchen food taste, too king. Every Yan see, do not eat the officials set up, the emperor always ordered to take their food. Steam cake on the not chap as a cross does not eat. Food day tens of thousands of money, still said there is no car." Only he ate the top of the steamed bread to be cracked into a cross shape, that is, today's "blooming steamed bread" (my hometown is called "pomegranate package).

3, until the Song Dynasty, steamed buns are still called "steamed cake". Only when Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty, because Emperor Renzong's name is Zhao Zhen, "Steam" and "Zhen" sound close, in order to avoid taboo, the Song Dynasty talent "steam cake" renamed " Cookies". The Water Margin" in Wu Dailang "daily still picking and selling cakes" in the "cake" is "steamed cake", that is, steamed bread.

4, as for today's buns in ancient times was called "steamed bread", it appeared almost the same time as the "steamed cake", the earliest is called "Man Tou", and later wrote as "steamed bread". Until the Northern Song Dynasty, people still call the stuffed "steamed bread", no filling for the "steamed cake" or "cooking cake". The "steamed buns" sold by Zhang Qing, the "vegetable gardener", and Sun Erniang, the "vixen", at the Cross Slope in Mengzhou in Water Margin are today's meat buns, but they are the creepy-sounding "human meat buns", the "human meat buns", the "human meat buns". The "human meat buns" are just that.