Who invented steamed bread?

Steamed bread was invented by Zhuge Liang. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo seven times, and after pacifying Nan Man, crossing the river was blocked by ghosts who died in battle. Zhuge Liang was worried about this scene and thought about it, so he had to pay homage to the river god, pray for God's blessing, punish evil and promote good, and bless all beings. Zhuge Liang could not bear to sacrifice his head and invented steamed bread as a substitute. So he ordered the sheep to be slaughtered, wrapped into dough and thrown into the water as a sacrifice. This is the origin of "steamed bread".

Local appellation

In China, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, steamed bread with stuffing and no soup is still called "steamed bread" and steamed bread with no stuffing is called "white flour steamed bread". "Bao" means soup. Such as Suzhou baozi stuffed with juicy pork. This is different from the north. In the northern dialect, those with stuffing are called "steamed buns", those without stuffing are called "steamed buns", and there are no steamed buns with soup in the north. See the table below for detailed names.

Other appellations

The title of steamed bread is still very confusing. For example, those without stuffing in the north are called "steamed buns" and "paper", and some are called "steamed buns". Some southerners have stuffing, and some are called "bread" and "soup dumplings". At present, no matter what steamed bread is stuffed or not, it is actually too far away from Zhuge Liang's original steamed bread. The word "person" in steamed bread was originally written as "word for square". Lu Zhan's sacrificial method: "Quansi uses the word [person] instead of the word" square "as the head." Xun Shi's Biography of the Four Seasons: "There are cakes in the Spring Temple."

Looking up the Record of Explaining Words in Tang Dynasty, there is another saying: "Steamed bread was originally made in Shu, thinking that Zhuge Liang made it with the fleshy face of a human head when he marched south. The word "person" was circulated, but at that time, I didn't know what the sound and meaning were, so it was just right to pass it on. Kong Ming and Ma Su had a set of psychological warfare theory when they sought to conquer the south. If you want to cut Meng Huo, you should be familiar with the obstacles, and you should grasp them in all directions. Is there really deception between things, which is particularly secular?