The difference between steamed buns and steamed bread: (Story) In daily life, the "steamed bread" people eat belongs to a kind of food fermented and steamed with flour, which is round and bulging. At first, this kind of food was stuffed, and later it was called stuffing-free steamed bread in northern China. If you ask why? It is closely related to Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms period. In order to explain the origin of "steamed bread" and "steamed stuffed bun" that people generally like to eat in life, we need to start with Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang was a statesman and strategist in Shu and Han Dynasties. The word kongming. Yang Du (now Yinan, Shandong Province) was a man of lang Xie. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he lived in seclusion in Longzhong, Deng County (now Xiangyang West, Hubei Province) and paid attention to the world. This gang is called Wolong. In the 12th year of Jian 'an (AD 207), Liu Bei visited the thatched cottage. He proposed to Liu Bei to occupy Jing (now Hunan, Hubei) and Iraq (now Sichuan), win the support of the rulers of all ethnic groups in southwest China, unite with Sun Quan, confront Cao Cao and unify the whole country, which was then called "Longzhong Dui". According to Zhuge Liang's suggestions and strategies, Liu Bei joined forces with Sun to attack Cao, won the famous "Battle of Red Cliffs" in China history, occupied Jingyi, and established the Shu-Han regime. According to legend, just as Zhuge Liang assisted Liu Bei in conquering the world, Zhuge Liang led his army into the southwest to conquer Meng Huo. When he crossed the Lushui River (the famous Lujiang River), that is, the Yalong River met the Jinsha River in the lower reaches of the Yalong River today, the time coincided with the May of the lunar calendar, which is Zhuge Liang's "Teacher's Watch", "Five Friends Crossing the Lugu River and Going Deep into the Barren Land". What's going on here? In other words, it is hot in May and summer in the lunar calendar, and the water in Lushui is different from that in other places. Not only that, the water also contains toxic substances. Soldiers never thought they would die, so there were more patients. In this case, after thinking hard, Zhuge Liang ordered soldiers to kill pigs and cattle, mix beef and pork, chop them into paste, steam them in the shape of a human head, and let the soldiers eat them. In this way, the death of soldiers and the sick people were quickly eliminated. In this way, people around Lushui spread the saying that Zhuge Liang's head-shaped "steamed bread" can avoid disaster, and since then people have gradually made "steamed bread" to eat in their lives. With the continuous development of social life practice, closely combined with the needs of life and diet, it gradually evolved from "steamed bread" to a kind of food filled with meat, called "steamed buns". Because it is wrapped in flour and meat, it is just right, and it is called "steamed stuffed bun". But what's more interesting is that in the book Love Bamboo, it is said: "There is a doctor named Sun Lin in Yi Song who treats gonorrhea for Song Ningzong, that is, he wraps garlic in steamed bread and takes lobster sauce three times a day, and it is cured in three days. He is regarded as a miraculous doctor." Lu You, a famous poet in Song Dynasty, not only praised the poem "Cage Cake", but also put forward his own comments on his poem. His poem "Cage Cake" said: "When in a daze, the fog and rain are dark, and it is appropriate for children to eat and drink. I feel that I am in the middle of Shu, and a plate of cage cakes is a pea nest. " Lu You's evaluation is: "Sichuan steamed bread with mixed meat (that is, pigs) as its nest (that is, stuffing) is very good. Tang people no longer call steamed buns cage cakes. " It can be seen that the pork noodle steamed bread in Sichuan was already very famous at that time.