Assorted food refers to food made from a variety of raw materials or in a variety of patterns. It also refers to food made from a variety of raw materials or in a variety of patterns. Shijin is a Chinese word, pronounced "shíjǐn", which is recorded in many documents.

The origin of assorted brocade can be traced back to the Song Dynasty. At that time, among the things Sichuan paid tribute to the emperor, there was something called "Ten Brocades". It was a brocade with ten patterns, each with its own name, so later the same type of brocade with different colors was Things are called "assorted". After the 1930s, people also called a mixture of different types of similar things "Ji Jin".