Yangquan pressed cake is made of high-dietary fiber materials such as “grain noodles, cornmeal, bitter noodles, sorghum noodles, wheat noodles”, which are made by traditional techniques and have the characteristics of “thin, fragrant, crisp, crispy” and high nutritional value. It is a gift with local characteristics. Lift the cake to the sun, and see the sun shining through the pancakes, giving the whole cake a transparent color.

Pressing cake is a characteristic traditional snack of Shi Pingmei, one of the CCP’s first city and one of the four modern talented women writers of the Republic of China. According to legend, when Princess Pingyang of the Tang Dynasty led the army to station at the Niangzi Pass, she used this cake as a marching dry grain for the sergeant to eat. During the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, the people of Yangquan once branded a large number of pressed cakes to support the front line of Lions.