According to legend, during the Crusades, ginger was an expensive imported spice, so it was only used for important festivals such as Christmas and Easter. Ginger is added to cakes and biscuits to increase flavor and has the function of expelling cold. Over time, gingerbread has become a snack associated with Christmas.

In the future, there will be a gingerbread market in Europe, and the market will provide gingerbread with different shapes in different seasons. Among them, Nuremberg, Germany enjoys the reputation of gingerbread capital. There is also a legend in Britain that unmarried women can meet their ideal partner after eating gingerbread.

After giving the atmosphere of Christmas, gingerbread was quickly spread widely and became a snack for Christmas. On1February 6th, St. Nicholas's Day, in northern France and Germany, godfathers and godmothers will give children gingerbread in various shapes, such as a heart star and a human shape, or secretly put them into socks that children expect.

Gradually, gingerbread became the material of fairy tales and was made into gingerbread houses of various shapes. Americans pushed the atmosphere of gingerbread houses to the extreme and became gingerbread houses echoed around the world.