Ding Lianfang used to be a small vendor in Huzhou, picking onions and selling vegetables for a living. His life was very difficult, especially in severe snowstorms and winter. 1878, at the age of 29, he decided to change careers and seek a new way out. Change what? He is considering doing big business. It is difficult to maintain a small business. On second thought, eating is the most suitable business. You can operate on a small budget, set up a stall to carry the burden, invest less, turn around quickly, and see more and more things in the future, so you decide to do snack business. The business is chosen, so what snacks should we make? Look at the market There are all kinds of cakes, such as jiaozi, bean curd, salty cakes, fried dough sticks, glutinous rice cakes, sweet potatoes and old water chestnut tea eggs. If we do these businesses again, we will fall behind others and make no progress. If we don't do well, we will still go hungry. Only by breaking new paths, walking in front of others and making snacks that are not available in the market will it be attractive. At that time, there were stalls and bags of shredded beef soup and shredded tofu powder on the market, which inspired him. He thought, you might as well make some thousand-faced buns and put them in silk powder to become thousand-faced buns and flour, but it is also unique. He made up his mind to start work at once, bought a pot and made a burden, so he began to operate thousands of steamed buns.