Steamed bread is also called "steamed bread" in some places in the north and "solid bag" in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. Other places are directly called "steamed buns" or "light steamed buns", which are generally semi-circular in shape and have a red seal printed on the top of the festival.

This kind of product is a kind of food with single flour or several kinds of flour as the main raw material, with little or no other auxiliary materials (adding auxiliary materials to make colored steamed bread), which is processed by kneading, fermenting and steaming. Mainly divided into the following main types.

One of China's traditional pasta, according to legend, was invented by Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu and Han Dynasties in the Three Kingdoms, and it is a kind of food steamed with fermented flour. Steamed bread with wheat flour as the main raw material is one of the daily staple foods of China people.