Shanxi pasta has a long history, dating back to 2 years. Take noodles as an example, which was called "cooking cakes" in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Wei and Jin dynasties were called "soup cakes"; The Northern and Southern Dynasties called "water introduction"; The Tang Dynasty was called "Leng Tao". The name of pasta is innovative, and it varies from time to time and from place to place. As the saying goes, spoiled children are the most popular, and many names and famous names of pasta show that Shanxi people attach importance to and love it. There are many kinds of pasta in Shanxi, so ordinary housewives can make dozens of kinds of pasta with wheat flour, sorghum flour, bean noodles, buckwheat noodles and oat noodles, such as Daoxiao Noodles, Lamian Noodles, Gepei noodles, pushing nests and enema. In the hands of the chef, it was even more transformed by the dance, which made people dizzying.

Shanxi pasta can be divided into:

steamed pasta: corn flour is the most common staple food in the past. The wheat-producing areas in Jinzhong area in southern Shanxi eat more steamed bread. Steamed bread is divided into flower rolls, knife-cut steamed buns, round steamed buns, pomegranate steamed buns, jujube steamed buns, malt steamed buns and hard-faced steamed buns. The steamed food of miscellaneous grains includes the roast old man with oat noodles in Lvliang, Jinzhong, North Shanxi; There are sorghum-flour fish in Wutai, Xinzhou, as well as steamed stuffed bun and Shaomei.

Cooked pasta: Cooked food in Shanxi is extremely rich, which is widely spread because it is convenient to make and can be combined with soup and vegetables. Noodles include pulled noodles, Longxu Noodles noodles, Daoxiao Noodles noodles, rotary table noodles, knife noodles and wrapped noodles. Shanxi people didn't eat noodles every day, and it seems that they didn't eat enough this day. Among the cooked pasta, Daoxiao Noodles in Shanxi is famous at home and abroad, and is regarded as one of the five famous pasta in China. Housewives hold up the kneaded dough and stand in a beautiful posture. Under the flying knife, the strips fall like meteors, and the fish jump into the dragon gate. The noodles cut out are thin, thin and long. Daoxiao Noodles, Shanxi, is soft and smooth, with internal weakness and external tendons, and is deeply loved by people. In today's Beijing, the local cuisines of the north and south of the Yangtze River are gathered, but Daoxiao Noodles in Shanxi still occupies a place, and Daoxiao Noodles Pavilion in Shanxi can be seen from time to time in the streets.

Among the cooked foods, there are many hand-cooked foods with different characteristics and flavors, such as cat's ear miscellaneous, small pursed slices, twisted fish, bean noodles flowing, and boiled flower towers. In addition, there are fried and baked pasta in Shanxi, such as pancakes, pancakes, fried dumplings, braised noodles, braised cakes, etc., as well as fried foods, such as dough twists and oil cakes. Shanxi people are really affectionate across the street. Of course, this preference also incorporates the plasticity of noodles and the wisdom of Shanxi people. Eat Lamian Noodles on your birthday, which means longevity; Eat "face to face" in the New Year, taking the meaning of extending the years; On the first day of school, children should eat "remembering the heart to burn", hoping that children will have a more knowledgeable mind … These pasta are no longer just food to satisfy hunger, but have become a kind of "spiritual food" full of emotional and philosophical implications.