According to historical records, in order to solve soldiers' anorexia, a general in Ma Wu had a whim. Take the donkey as an example. It rolls around at rest and is covered with yellow meat. He steamed the yellow wheat that everyone ate every day into red bean stuffing and rolled it up with fried soybean powder, which not only cured everyone's anorexia, but also was loved by the world and has been passed down to this day.

2. Significance

Snowballing usury, also known as bean flour cake, is one of the ancient snacks in Beijing. Its main raw material is yellow wheat, and the yellow soybeans sprinkled in the final production process are like bursts of loess raised by wild donkeys in the suburbs of old Beijing, hence the name "donkey rolling".

According to the custom of old Beijing, people always like to buy "snowballing usury" in February of the lunar calendar to taste it.

However, although snowballing usury is delicious and has good nutritional value, don't eat too much, because it contains too much sugar, which will lead to excessive energy and easy blood sugar rise. In addition, soft waxy ingredients are not easy to digest when they are ingested too much. Therefore, snowballing usury, as a traditional food, can be tasted in festivals with endless aftertaste.

People's Daily-Issue 138: Snowball, a snack for strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach in Beijing.