When did pancakes originate?

Legend has it that Zhuge Liang's army was trapped between Yishui and Sushui, and the cauldron for cooking was lost when it broke through. The soldiers are hungry and sleepy, and they have no cooking tools. The morale of the army has already fallen apart. Zhuge Liang asked the rotor soldiers to make slurry with water and flour, then put the gong on the fire and spread the rice slurry with a wooden stick to fry delicious pancakes. After eating, the soldiers' morale was greatly boosted, and they kept the momentum. Two songs. It is said that this method was later spread from sergeant to folk, and this pancake is now pancake. It turned out to be Zhuge Liang!

This is generally believed to have originated from Taian and Linyi in Shandong. ?

The emergence of the word "pancake": In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was an alchemist named Wang Jia. In a collection of fairy tales handed down by him, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, there is such a sentence: "Jiangdong commonly says that the 20th day of the first month is the day to wear the sun, and pancakes are tied to the roof with red silk thread, which is called trapping. According to legend, The goddess patching the sky. " This is a festival to commemorate the ancient goddess mending the sky. Judging from this passage, pancakes were already very popular food at that time. Li Guan, a native of Song Dynasty, wrote this poem: After a few years of snails, summer and winter are natural. There are only idle women in the world, and a cake fills the sky. That's one thing.

In the Ming Dynasty, pancakes not only appeared in written records, but also began to spread. Add the word "spread" and it will be very different. This is a process of communication. "Wan Bu Miscellaneous Notes" written by Shen Bang in the Ming Dynasty: "Spread pancakes with flour, smoke beds, and insects don't grow". In the Qing Dynasty, the written record was more detailed: Pu Songling wrote in "Pancake Fu": "I have Mi Dou, which is ground like jelly and needs to be chopped. I have the shape of a tripod, and I have a spoon in an earthenware pot. After being burned by fire, turn left, such as grinding. This passage is easy to understand. Think about it. When you buy pancakes, the master's stall technology will be fine. It can be seen that the pancake spreading method was very mature in the Qing Dynasty, and it is no different from now.

The word "smoke" in the text is a tool for spreading pancakes, so pancakes are also called smoke cakes. Today, there are many kinds of pancakes. In some restaurants in the north, there are several ways to eat pancakes, and all the alleys in the country have their own secrets. Then, new york's improved pancakes, there is no telling which day pancakes will become as popular abroad as domestic pizzas. There is also a short story about pancakes, which is said to be related to the death of our soldier Guan Gong. Let's take a look at this little story as the end:

Sun Quan was very angry with Liu Bei for borrowing Jingzhou, so he sent Zhuge Liang's younger brother Zhu Gejin to beg for it. Neither Liu Bei nor Zhuge Liang wants to return it. How can they easily return the fat from their mouths? However, he reluctantly agreed, and then wrote to Guan Yu asking Zhu Gejin to take him to see Guan Yu. At the same time, he asked the accompanying soldiers to bring some pancakes and glutinous rice porridge to Guan Yu as a sign of sympathy. After receiving it, Guan Yu smiled and understood Zhuge Liang's meaning of "annexing Jingzhou", so he kicked Zhu Gejin out and incorporated Jingzhou into the territory of Western Shu. Therefore, people in Wu Dong blamed Guan Yu, and Maicheng was later defeated and killed by General Monroe of Wu Dong.