When did steamed dumplings appear?

There are different opinions about the origin of steamed dumplings. It is generally believed that less wheat originated from the vast grassland in north-central Asia. Altaic languages include "shirme" and "suumai", transliterated as steamed dumplings and steamed dumplings. The exact time of the invention of steamed dumplings cannot be verified. According to legend, in the Yuan Dynasty, Mongols entered the Central Plains and were introduced into the Han culture area. Knowledgeable person in Park, which was first recorded in13rd century, gradually spread from north to south with the development of historical process. Let's take a look at the origin and development of steamed dumplings. First, the origin of a little wheat?

Steamed dumplings, also known as steamed dumplings, is another name for steamed dumplings in Inner Mongolia. It is said that steamed dumplings themselves originated in Inner Mongolia, so what is the origin of steamed dumplings?

It is difficult to verify the specific origin of steamed dumplings. It is generally believed that "steamed dumplings" is still the common pronunciation of the vast grassland in central North Asia and the Altaic language family popular in central North Asia: "shirme" means skin and pocket in Turkic language family; "suumai" in the Mongolian language family refers to snacks that are not cooled. The former summarizes the shape and appearance of steamed dumplings, while the latter expresses the scarcity and preciousness of steamed dumplings as a hot food in the cold, barren and fuel-poor natural environment of North Asia.

2. When did steamed dumplings appear?

Steamed dumplings originated in Inner Mongolia, and was introduced into China culture in the Yuan Dynasty with the Mongols entering the Central Plains. During this period, Mongolian culture and China culture began to blend closely, and many Mongolian diet terms began to appear, steamed dumplings being one of them.

The earliest record of steamed dumplings in history is/kloc-Su Zhi, a Chinese textbook published by North Korea in the 3rd century. At that time, as a loyal vassal state of the Yuan Empire, the Korean Peninsula attached great importance to the teaching of Chinese, vividly described the folk customs of the Yuan Dynasty, and laid a good foundation for the middle and upper classes to go to China for further study. Knowledgeable person recorded a kind of food called "steamed dumplings" in the streets of Yuan Dynasty in detail, and the method was complicated. Make wheat flour into thin slices, stuffed with meat, steamed and served with soup.

Third, how did steamed dumplings spread to all parts of the country?

Steamed dumplings was brought to the Central Plains by Mongols in the Yuan Dynasty. At first, it was mainly popular in the Yuan Dynasty, that is, today's Beijing area, and later it gradually developed all over the country. So how did steamed dumplings spread?

After the demise of the Yuan Dynasty, Judy, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, made Beijing its capital, legally inherited most of the territory and rights of the Yuan Dynasty, and also followed a large number of regulations and folk customs of the Yuan Dynasty, which spread to the "steamed dumplings" of the Yuan Dynasty, thus spreading to the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty and gradually becoming a street snack, which was also recorded in some novels of the Ming Dynasty. For example, Jin Ping Mei Hua Ci, written in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, recorded a kind of steamed dumplings called "picking flowers"

In the Qing Dynasty, the rich Jiangnan became an important area to bear the national tax burden and create social wealth, and various exquisite foods emerged one after another on the dining table of Jiangnan literati. In the Ming dynasty, steamed dumplings, as a street diet, gradually entered the recipes of the upper class.

Generally speaking, the spread path of steamed dumplings is from north to south and from west to east. In the process of communication, there is also a trend of more and more refinement.