Over oil meat through generations of chefs elaborate cooking has been handed down to date, the history of the dish originated from the East Jin famous city of Pingding, Pingding State (present-day Yangquan City, Shanxi Province, Pingding County) is the most authentic.

February 1957 by the City Catering Company organized an expert review of the famous chef Wu Wanku technician produced by the over-oiled meat rated as one of the top ten famous food in Taiyuan. After the famous chef Zhang Dianhua, Bai Baoshan, Fang Minglock and several other famous chefs to participate in the city, the province and the country's culinary competitions, has won the gold medal, for the people of Taiyuan competed for the light.

Since the market economy, all the restaurants and hotels operating Shanxi rice dishes have over oil meat this dish. However, may be out of some intention, some restaurants will be transformed into a variety of meat over oil, the face is completely different, derived from a variety of series of meat over oil, such as cabbage over oil meat, pepper over oil meat, spicy over oil meat, etc., in order to adapt to the needs of the diners to the meat over oil with onions, garlic shoots, dried red pepper, soybean sprouts ...... Over time, the original that the traditional Over the long term, the original traditional meat has been difficult to find. In fact, the oil meat should be from the selection of materials, vegetables, cooking on the effort, so as to highlight the strong local characteristics of Shanxi.