Horseshoe bamboo shoots have a long history, as early as the Tang Dynasty, there are records of digging bamboo shoots to fill hunger. Mr. Su Dongpo, a famous poet in Song Dynasty, once wrote: "You can eat without meat, but not live without bamboo; no meat makes you thin, no bamboo makes you vulgar." And someone else picked up on it and said, "If you want to be not vulgar and not thin, you'd better eat bamboo shoots and roast pork.

Huangtian Town, Gutian County, Fujian Province, there is still a legend, during the Qianlong period, because it grows in the foothills between the mountains, when the name "foot bamboo shoots". During Emperor Qianlong's visit to the south of the Yangtze River, he rode his horse through the Huangtian territory of a hillock, and fell off his horse because of excessive labor and hunger, and was found by a bamboo shoot farmer. The kind-hearted bamboo shoot farmer dug bamboo shoots to Qianlong hunger, the Qianlong Emperor has never eaten such delicious food, then asked what this is? Bamboo shoot farmer replied: "foot bamboo shoots". At this time, Qianlong's mount cited the long neck, hooves kicked in the direction of the bamboo shoot farmers, Qianlong look at this bamboo shoots and hoofs are very similar, it is named "horseshoe bamboo shoots", a Gangling also given the name of "horseshoe Ridge", and from now on horseshoe bamboo shoots will become a tribute to the Imperial Palace.