馕的起源

On the Origin of Nang Cake(馕)

馕的起源没有统一的说法,主要有中亚西亚传入说、维吾尔族发明说、中原传入说。事实上,众多的证据证明馕作为适应自然条件和人类社会需要的"生态食物",实际上就起源于新疆南部地区,是新疆绿洲农耕土著民族发明创造并适应当地干旱少雨气候条件的产物。在新疆南部回鹘化、伊斯兰化的过程中以及维吾尔族的演变过程中,馕这一生态食物得到传承并逐步发扬光大,最终形成以馕为核心的、具有很强地域特色的新疆饮食文化。

The views on the origin of Nang Cake mainly contain several opinions, namely 'introducing from the central Asia', 'inventing by Uighur', 'introducing from the central plains' and it has no unified view. In fact, there are many evidences to prove that Nang Cake originated in southern Xinjiang as a kind of 'ecological food' to meet the needs of natural conditions and human society, and was a creation of aboriginal who lived in the oasis of drought Xinjiang. With the development of the Uighur trend and the Islamization in the southern Xinjiang and the evolution of Uighur, 'Nang Cake' was inherited and gradually developed, thus the distinguishing Xinjiang's diet culture with Nang Cake as the core took shape finally.