It is said that once, Empress Dowager Cixi was tired of eating food in the palace and wanted to try something new. So, the royal chef thought about it and decided to make a new dish with rice noodles wrapped in red bean paste.

As soon as the new dish was ready, a eunuch named Xiao Lv came to the chef. Who knows that Xiao Lv accidentally knocked the freshly prepared dish into a basin full of soybeans, which worried the chef, but it was too late to do it again. No way, the chef had to bite the bullet and present this dish to Empress Dowager Cixi.

As soon as Empress Dowager Cixi ate this new gadget and found it delicious, she asked the chef, "What's the name of this thing?" The cook thought it was all done by the eunuch named Xiao Lv, so he said to Empress Dowager Cixi, "This is called snowballing." Since then, there has been a snack called "snowballing".

The origin of snowballing usury:

Snowball originated in Manchuria, originated in Chengde and prevailed in Beijing. Because the children of the Eight Banners in Qing Dynasty loved sticky food, "snowballing donkey" soon spread to Beijing and became a local snack in Beijing.

Since ancient times, Chengde area has been rich in a kind of millet. According to "Record of Jehol", "millet is called yellow rice by the natives". This kind of millet, which is sticky in nature, is called yellow rice in Chengde. It can be used for boring rice or grinding into powder to make sticky bean bags, rice cakes and "snowballing".

It is a tradition of Manchu people to like sticky food, because the hunting life of Manchu people often goes out early and comes back late, and eating sticky food can resist hunger. Rolling on a donkey is a popular snack, which evolved from sticky food more than 200 years ago. It can be seen that the name of "snowballing" has been established.