The origin of dumplings, in addition to the history of the party secretary, there is also a legend of folk. Once there was an emperor, all state affairs, only pleasure, toward the traitor's graces, Zhongliang victim, leaving the national poverty stricken people Voices of discontent. One day, called "pan Sushui" traitor Pan Qi. Emperor, said he had a good idea, can make the emperor ever-young. The emperor after listen to, full of love. Asked: "Pan Aiqing, what is the fast and I listen to!" Panch played said: "if a man can eat hundreds of meals, you can Zengshou Yannian into a God, the emperor ordered to move around the election cooks, let him make a new kind of three meals a day to eat a meal, not willing to do it?" After hearing the emperor nodded again and again, that is, the notice, the whole country to recruit.

　　不几日，全国各地好多有名厨师陆续被送到京里，经过殿试，手艺高的厨师苏巧生被选上了。从此，苏巧生凭着自己高超的技艺为皇上做了九十九个花样的饭菜，皇上十分满意。这一夜，苏巧生很高兴。心想：“明天早上再做一样饭就可以离开这个可恨的昏君，回家与亲人团聚了。”但到了做饭的时候，竟不知该咋做最后一顿饭了。他想到自杀逃跑，还想到毒死这个吃喝人民血肉的昏君。正在悲伤的时候，他突然看到菜案上有些剩下的羊肉和菜，便拿起刀把羊肉和菜一起剁碎，胡乱搁上调料，用白面皮包了许多小角角，然后放在开水锅里煮熟，当做最后一样饭给皇端去。苏巧生正木呆呆地坐着等死，谁知皇上吃了这餐饭后，竟穿着睡衣跑进厨房说：“今日这顿饭最香，这叫什么名字？”苏巧生听罢，长长地叹了口气，随后抬头看见这种扁扁的东西，信口答道："这是民间上等品----扁食。"皇上又留苏巧生继续给他做饭，巧生对这个贪得无厌的昏君气愤极了，第二天便偷偷地溜走了。后人为了纪念这位厨师，就学着包扁食吃。这样，一代一代，一直流传到了今天。

　　Not a few days, a lot of famous chefs around the country after another was sent to Beijing, after examination, craft chef Su Qiaosheng was elected on. Since then, Su Qiao Sheng with his superb skills for the emperor to do ninety-nine tricks of the food, the emperor is very satisfied. This night, Su is very happy. I thought: "you can do the same meal tomorrow morning to leave the hateful headed home, with the family reunited." But when I was cooking, I didn't know how to make the last meal. He thought of Dutch act escape, thought of the people and poisoned flesh hunjun. Is sad when he suddenly saw the case of vegetables there are some remaining lamb and vegetables, they picked up a knife and chopped lamb dishes together, casually resting on the spices, flour bag with a number of small angle, and then placed in boiling water boiled, the same as the last meal for the emperor to end. Su Qiaosheng, who was sitting dead, who know the emperor to eat this meal, actually wearing pajamas ran into the kitchen and said: "today this meal is the most fragrant, this name is what?" Su Qiaosheng listens, a long sigh of relief, then looked up and saw the flat things, I replied: "this is a folk fine goods. "The emperor and the Soviet Union Qiaosheng continue to cook for him, Qiao Sheng of this HunJun insatiably avaricious was very angry, the second day they secretly slipped away. In commemoration of the cook school to eat the package bianshi. In this way, the generation of generation, has been handed down to today.