Siu mai originated with the Yuan Dynasty metropolis, which was located in the inner area of what is now the old city of Beijing, as well as the area north of it. It was the largest city in the world at the time.

And nowadays, siu mai, a traditional Chinese cuisine, is found in Beijing, Shandong, Guangzhou, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places in China.

The history of siu mai:

1, Yuan Dynasty

Siu mai has a long history in China, on can be traced back to the Yuan Dynasty Goryeo published Chinese textbook - "Park Thing Thong," the book recorded on the record of siu mai with vegetarian sour stuffing, said: thin skin and meat cut meat, when the top of the handful of thin like a line of the tip of the line, it is said that a little bit of wheat, the skin, meat for filling as a flower to do the skin. Skin, meat as a filling as a stamen, dialect called siu mai. Records and objects can be compared with each other, here a little wheat and today's siu mai is the same thing.

2, Ming and Qing Dynasties

Time to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, "siu mai" and "siu mai" called gradually emerged, and "siu mai" in the records appear in the and "siu mai" appeared more frequently in the records. For example, "Jinpingmei words" in the peach blossom siu mai, "Yangzhou Boat Record", "Tongqiao Chair Record" and other books have recorded the word siu mai, there is the Qing Dynasty, "Tuning Ding set" in the inclusion of a variety of fillings of siu mai, what meat filling siu mai, bean paste filling siu mai, oil and sugar filling siu mai and so on.