It is named after the use of a kind of steamed tableware called "Jun". Retort is an ancient cooker with a small hole at the bottom, which can be put on a pot to steam food. The Yellow River valley is commonly known as gold, so the baked cake is also called gold cake. So read Jing.
The ancient retort pouch is first manifested in its cooker: retort pouch is an ancient cooker with a small hole at the bottom, which can be put on a pot to steam food. According to legend, retort appeared in the late primitive society, pottery retort appeared in the Neolithic Age, and it developed into bronze casting in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. After the ironware is made, it becomes an iron retort. The retort cake is made by steaming glutinous rice, red dates or candied dates and red beans on an iron retort, hence the name.
The history of pancakes
Nan cake evolved from the unique food "Nan bait paste" in China during the Western Zhou Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago. "Zhou Li Tian Gong" has a record of being humiliated by eating bait powder. "Paste" is a cake steamed by adding bean paste stuffing (called bean dregs in ancient times) to glutinous rice flour.
In the pre-Qin period, the "powder cake" was a cake steamed by adding bean paste to glutinous rice flour, without jujube. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that dates and rice were steamed together. In the Tang Dynasty, the "Crystal Dragon and Phoenix Cake" in the "Shao Wei Banquet" hosted by Wei Juyuan for Emperor Zhongzong came down in one continuous line with today's retort cakes.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhugao