Pancake is one of the traditional Chinese cuisine. The Eastern Jin Dynasty Wang Jia, "Gleanings": "Jiangdong commonly known as the 20th day of the first month for the day wear day, to red silk strands tied pancakes placed on the roof, so-called patch the leakage of the sky. Legend has it that Nuwa used this day to mend heaven and earth." .

Shandong Lunan region for the prevalence of the origin is very early, the legend originated in the Three Kingdoms period of Linyi, and then affect the Lunan and northern Jiangsu areas, the breakthrough in Tianjin, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and other parts of the region also eat pancakes.

According to the 2012 Shandong Qilu Evening News text records originated in Tai'an, the literature is so documented, but also in the text records of the earlier.

Pancakes, is one of the traditional staple food, the distribution of a wide range of areas, mainly concentrated in Shandong Zaozhuang, Linyi, Jinan, Laiwu, Tai'an, Zibo, Jining, Heze, Rizhao, Weifang, Qingdao, Tengzhou, Qufu, Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, Xuzhou and other municipalities in the whole area or part of the county city. Others in the three northeastern provinces, as well as Hebei Province, Beijing, Tianjin, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Jiangsu's north of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Yunnan, Shaanxi, part of the region, of course, the types and classification of pancakes is even more numerous, so do the pancake learning is also more.