Panba is the folk cooking rice sticking pots and pans formed by the dry bar. Sichuan called "pot ba", Jiangxi called "pot bottom rice"; Guangdong called "pot coke"; Shanghai called "rice zi" and so on. and so on. Sichuan has been circulating "not to eat pot, not around the stove turn", the folk proverb.

In the past, urban and rural residents are very poor, the pot is generally not allowed to eat at will. Often save up the pot, sun-dried collection, reserved for the spring drought live tight time, food and hunger. Therefore, in Anhui along the river and the southern Anhui area, some people are not allowed to eat when eating pot, they call pot called "leaning", as a famine disaster days "rely on the mountain".

Pot. History. History

Jiyuan City, Henan Province, the cultural relics storage Lu Huanan comrades, in the Yellow River Xiaolangdi construction area investigation of cultural relics, in the mouth of the Qinghe in a Longshan culture site, found a ceramic ceramic piece of a layer of cooked remains (that is, commonly known as potpourri), the thickness of its paper, and the area of ten square centimeters, was yellow. According to the evidence, its age when in four thousand years ago, the ancients in the brush pot before the li broken, after drying, piled up in a dry place to save bu come. (Quoted from "Agricultural Archaeology" 1997, No. 3 "Henan Jiyuan found 4,000 years ago, the pot")

Tang and Song dynasties, with the pot as a dish for the cooking method has appeared, but then it is as a very common folk snacks, with sugar sauce or minced meat sauce after pouring, and no reputation. Until the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the legend of the pot into the write up more.