Why do some places steam a lot of steamed buns before the Spring Festival, but are not allowed to make pancakes?

Twenty-eight is the day when every family steamed buns. This steamed bread is not steamed in one pot, but in many pots. Because steamed bread is not only eaten by family and guests during the Chinese New Year, but also a good gift for visiting relatives and friends. There are other reasons why so many steamed buns were steamed years ago. There are many taboos in Chinese New Year. In my hometown, according to tradition, from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month, steamed buns, pancakes and stir-fried dishes can't be steamed with fire. The homonyms are "steaming" and "fighting", "flipping" and "falling", "frying" and "noisy", which are unlucky and taboo in the New Year, so people are used to cooking staple food on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. Of course, steamed bread needs to be steamed, and steamed bread needs to be steamed more, which indicates that in the new year, life will flourish and wealth will prosper in the coming year, which has pinned people's yearning for a better life.

When the guests come, go to the last table, let the guests eat white steamed bread and the host eat black steamed bread. There will naturally be some concessions. Later, some people introduced white corn and ground it into fine flour, and steamed bread was also white, which shortened the gap between host and guest; In the early 1980 s, the country carried out reform and opening up, and rural areas implemented joint production and remuneration. In this way, there is a little more wheat in each family, so corn steamed bread is wrapped in white flour, and there is also a very nice name called "silver wrapped gold" Of course, the owner will know when he takes the white-flour steamed bread and the "silver-wrapped gold", and he will not make a mistake. In this way, at least in appearance, before eating, the host and guest are "equal", and the guests feel at ease when they pick up the white steamed bread to eat.

As far as I can remember, it was not until the late 1980s that the rural land contract system was implemented, so that every household had enough wheat to eat. I can eat white flour steamed bread every day and say goodbye to sweet potato pancakes and corn flour steamed bread. That was after the 1990s!