Eyang rice cake production history

Yiyang rice cake history and development

Yiyang rice cake, commonly known as Yiyang "rice kuey teow", has a long history, the long history of development is divided into three stages.

The first stage: the long folk production stage

According to the records of Yiyang County, in 1490 A.D., the Song Dynasty began to make Yiyang rice cakes. County records, "Daho rice white and grown up to make processing Daho rice, Daho grain rice white rice hard to make more than one group, need three steam two hundred pounded, Eagle City rice for the water, soft and palatable, provincial capital called Eagle Yang group, the most famous foreign counties, the soil businessmen more than far away from the other place to do the gifts."

Second stage: the production stage of the workshop

After the liberation of the people's standard of living, with the people living standard of the people's livelihood, the production of the cake began in the Song Dynasty.

After the liberation, as the standard of living of the people continue to improve, the increasing demand for rice cakes in Yiyang, and then promote the farmers rice kuey teow to enter the market, and gradually formed a small commodity workshop.

Third stage: development and utilization and industrialization project stage

In order to comply with the people's living standards are increasing, the demand for Yiyang rice cake is growing. To this end, in 1997 Yiyang county party committee, the county government put forward on the implementation of Yiyang rice cake industrialization project decision. Yiyang rice cake has also entered the modernization of science and technology production stage.