In everyone's impression, most people feel that the emergence of noodles, is in the wheat throughout China after the matter, in fact, is not true, in a long time ago, our ancestors began to eat noodles , the raw material is not wheat, but sorghum and grain.

Currently foreign recognized wheat origin in West Asia, probably more than four thousand years ago through the introduction of Xinjiang in China. The inland wheat is widespread as old as the Han Dynasty after the thing, the link that is found during the Warring States period of the stone milling disk in the Han Dynasty to get the implementation of the ability to make wheat can be ground into flour, wheat has become the ShuoFang of the mainstream food. The first noodles appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty's Cui Shi's "Four People's Monthly Order", which was written in Chinese ink, and the first noodles appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty's Cui Shi's "Four People's Monthly Order", which was written in Chinese ink.

Boiled and ulcerated cakes are the aliases of noodles, and in the folk world, people call noodles soup cakes.

This kind of title is inevitably a bit abstract, cake or so, let a person reverie can not think of noodle strips of the common shape, so the former also will be thin one-sided and thin strip of noodles to do the identification, the former called "hoto", the latter is called "water cited", these instruments are all evidence, the record of the Qi Min Yao Zi, the "Cake" and the "water cited". These instruments are all well documented and recorded in Qimin yao ji (The Essentials of Qi Min).

In Zhouzhi County, Shaanxi Province, there is still a way to serve "houtou", which is kneaded and then torn into pieces, boiled and then cooked, and can be splashed with oil or topped with soup, which is so sweet that inlanders call it "Laowaisa" or "hoto". "If you have the time, you must try it, but this is a thousand years ago, the old ancestor's way of serving. After the Song and Ming dynasties, the economic center of gravity moved south and north people moved south to bring more pasta construction technology, the noodles of all kinds of practices and services are also the first to develop and carry out, the noodles of the name is also the time to set down, until today.