How long has the history of Chinese people eating pasta?

Chinese people have a long history of eating pasta. This is thanks to our ancestors who cultivated rolling wheat fields very early on.

The earliest pasta processing technology was Bengan, which was shelling by hand, pounding the wheat into fine powder on a stone slab, and making porridge to drink.

It was not until people learned to use grooved grinding discs and advanced rotating stone mills that grain threshing and finishing began to grind the grains into flour.

At that time, the rice was soaked and then pounded into flour.

On the dining table of the Zhou royal family, there was a food made of fried rice and wheat, which was called "embarrassing bait powder".

"Shuowen" says "bait is powder cake".

"Fenzi" is a cake made by adding bean paste filling (called bean crumbs in ancient times) to glutinous rice flour.

This ancient eating method still has strong vitality today. Today's Yunnan people call rice flour pancakes "baits".