According to records, the steamed buns we eat were invented by Zhuge Liang.

After Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo seven times and pacified the Southern Barbarians, he passed by the Lushui River on his way back. At that time, the wind was strong and the waves were high, and he could not move forward for a while. After asking Meng Huo, he learned that it was the rampant gods in the Lushui River that were causing trouble, and he wanted to use human heads and black cattle.

Only the sacrifice of Aries can pacify it.

The barbarians here deal with this every time they encounter this problem.

Zhuge Liang thought that using human heads was too bloody, so he asked his subordinates to slaughter cattle and sheep, then shape them into the shape of human heads with dough, and stuffed beef and mutton inside, which was called "mantou".

It was used to worship the rampant god in the Lu River, and finally passed safely.

Later, the pasta made by Zhuge Liang gradually became popular among the people, and the word "mantou" gradually became "mantou".

Related information: 1. Eating glutinous rice balls is to commemorate Dongfang Shuo. According to legend, during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was a particularly smart and kind-hearted man named Dongfang Shuo among his courtiers.

Once he met a palace maid named Yuanxiao who wanted to commit suicide. After getting to know her, he learned that she wanted to commit suicide because she had been living in the palace all year round and could not reunite with her family.

So Dongfang Shuo thought of a way to make Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty think that there would be a disaster in Chang'an on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. This could only be solved by eating glutinous rice balls in every household, worshiping the God of Fire, hanging lanterns in the streets and alleys, and setting off fireworks.

So Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered the palace maid to carry a Lantern Festival lantern to clear the way, and Dongfang Shuo held glutinous rice balls in his hands to worship the God of Fire.

Finally, under Dongfang Shuo's ingenious arrangement, the Yuanxiao family reunited on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Afterwards, Dongfang Shuo gave Yuanxiao the credit for making glutinous rice balls and hanging lanterns to eliminate the disaster. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty changed the name of glutinous rice balls to "Yuanxiao" when he was happy.

2. Eating rice cakes is to commemorate - Wu Zixu eats rice cakes to commemorate Wu Zixu. Maybe people in the south know more about it, while people in the north know less about it.

According to legend, before Wu Zixu died, he told his subordinates that if the country was in trouble and the people ran out of food, they should dig three feet under the city wall to get food.

After Wu Zixu committed suicide, King Gou Jian of Yue besieged the capital of Wu. The city was in urgent need of food and the people had no rice to cook with. So he remembered Wu Zixu's words, dug three feet under the city wall and found rice cakes, and he overcame the difficulty.

From then on, during the Chinese New Year, every household would make rice cakes to commemorate Wu Zixu.

3. Eating dumplings is to commemorate - Zhang Zhongjing Zhang Zhongjing was a native of the Eastern Han Dynasty and was known as the medical sage. His Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases was regarded as a classic by doctors of all generations.

According to legend, when Zhang Zhongjing was the prefect of Changsha, a plague prevailed one winter and the people suffered greatly. Zhang Zhongjing saw many people suffering from hunger and cold, their ears were rotten by the cold, and countless people died of the disease.

He felt sorry for the people, so he cooked the mutton and some medicinal materials to dispel cold, took out and chopped it, then wrapped it in dough into ear-shaped "Jiao Er", named it "Quhan Jiao Er Soup" and distributed it

Give it to the people and eat it from the winter solstice to New Year's Eve.

After the people ate it, their whole bodies became hot, their blood flowed smoothly, their ears became warm, and their frozen ears were slowly cured.