According to legend, during the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty continued to charge the people a variety of names complicated taxes, the people were oppressed and plundered very seriously, the nation's uprisings in an endless stream, which is the most representative of a team is the Zhu Yuanzhang commander of the insurrectionary army, Zhu Yuanzhang's wife, Ma, is a very clever person in the early stages of the uprising.

Because of the war, food is often not enough, the army still have to run around to fight, in order to facilitate the soldiers to carry dry food, so Ma came up with wheat, winter melon and other things that can be eaten and together, ground into a powder, made into cakes, distributed to the soldiers, not only easy to carry, but also can be eaten at any time and anywhere, the marching and fighting has played a great help.

Because of this mess together with the things made out of the cake is difficult to eat, so smart people on the basis of this kind of cake to update the method, and finally people found with sugar melon, wheat flour, cake flour, caramel, sesame seeds and other raw materials to do out of the cake is very tasty, sweet and savory, which is the ancestor of the wife of the cake.

The history of fish-flavored meat is not long. 1909 published "Chengdu General View" included fish-flavored meat 1328 Sichuan dishes, no fish-flavored meat. The name of the dish, Fish-flavored Shredded Pork, was finalized by Chiang Kai-shek's chef during the war and has been passed down to this day.