The Shaobing Song (Chinese: 燒餅歌), also known as Pancake Poem[1] or Pancake Song,[2] is a poem purported to be written by Liu Bowen during the Ming dynasty.
He supposedly presented the poem to the Hongwu Emperor.
[3] The poem is named after the Chinese pastry shaobing.
Some believe that certain lines contain references to the future of China at the time including: Some Chinese researchers claimed that Pancake Poem is quite spiritual and is representative of the Chinese prophecy culture.
This led some experts to believe the work is a hoax of recent production, designed to reassure people that all would be well when there was much unrest as a consequence of the Japanese invasion and the rise of communism.