Fried dough sticks, an ancient China pasta, is a long and hollow fried food with crisp and tough taste, which is one of the traditional breakfasts in China. The History of Song Dynasty records that during the Song Dynasty, Qin Gui persecuted Yue Fei, and people expressed their anger by frying a kind of pasta similar to fried dough sticks. The origin of similar fried pasta is much earlier than that of Song Dynasty, which can be traced back to before Tang Dynasty, and the specific period cannot be verified.

As early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was an agronomist Jia Sixie in the Northern Wei Dynasty. In the Book of Qi Yaomin, he recorded the method of making fried food. The Book of Qi Yao Min says, "Pancakes, a cooler, are beautiful." During the Tang Dynasty, the poet Liu Yuxi also mentioned cold weapons in a story. In Tiaoxi Fishing in Conghua, it is mentioned: "Dongpo loves food and often writes poems about it, such as Gourmet Fu and Bean Porridge Poetry. There is also a cloud in "Cold Poetry":' After rubbing a few hands, I found jade, and when blue oil was fried, it was pale yellow and deep.' Sleeping at night in spring is insignificant, it will overwhelm a beautiful woman to embrace gold. The cold tool is a twisted head, and Liu Yuxi's "A Story" is produced. "However, this kind of food called" cold utensils "should look like arm-wrapped gold worn by women, similar to spreading seeds, not fried dough sticks. Fried dough sticks should be another innovation of fried pasta after the Southern Song Dynasty.

The name of fried dough sticks varies from place to place. "Tianjin calls fried dough sticks fruit; Some areas in Anhui are called avocados; Northeast is called big fruit; Guangzhou and its surrounding areas are called ghost bombing; Chaoshan area and other places call it fried melon and fruit; Zhejiang Province has a name for natural beef tendon (natural beef tendon is loofah, and the old loofah will leave beef tendon after drying and peeling, which looks like fried dough sticks, so it is called natural beef tendon).