During the War of Resistance against the Japanese, there was a painter who fled from Shanghai to Guilin. After Shanghai was recovered, many people went back to Shanghai. But he would not return. His wife wrote a letter to urge him back, the painter said ¡°I am too fond of Guilin rice noodles. I can¡¯t spend a day without eating rice noodles.¡± His wife would not believe it. So she came to Guilin. It happened that she was also addicted to it. So the couple simply settled in Guilin. 

Nowadays, young men and women have the freedom to arrange their own marriage. But in the past, the marriages all were introduced by the matchmakers. Now the young man and woman meet in the teahouses, bars or coffee halls. But they used to go to rice noodles shops. The boy shall entertain the girl in eating rice noodles. At this time, even if you were very poor, you must order the big pork rice noodles. The so-called big pork rice noodles are the noodles of one jiao and five fen. The one jiao and two fen rice noodles is called one meat and one vegetarian, with not much pork. There were still big vegetarian rice noodles of eight fen for a bowl, and small vegetarian rice noodles of four fen for a liang. The man and woman ate while talked. If they were satisfied with each other, they would go on. If not, just said goodbye. Therefore, there was a song: ¡°One bowl of rice noodles forms ties between us, the deep feeling like sea disregards money. The rice noodles acts as a matchmaker, and the legendary story circulates for a hundred years. The scenery is beautiful and rice noodles are fragrant, Guilin is a treasured land. The well water reflects the mandarin ducks, and the rice noodles are so soulful than a thousand words. ¡±

Besides, in the past, the waiter will serve the rice noodles to your table, and you would pay after eating. Therefore, when eating the Horsemeat Rice Noodles, the store would count the bowl and charged based on the bowls used. For this reason, there was a story. A boss opened a rice noodle shop on the end of the Flower Bridge, but there were too many ruffians. They threw the bowls into the ponds stealthily after eating the rice noodles, and swept their mouth with their sleeves and left. If the boss asked them to pay, they would ask the boss where the bowl was. In the Cultural Revolution later, the red guards carried the revolution through into the rice noodle shop. They would not let the rice noodles be served to the table, saying that it is a life style of the bourgeois, and ordered the customers to line up and fetch it themselves. This was good to the shop keepers and saved them the wages of one or two workers.

Although the customers must fetch the noodles themselves, people who eat rice noodles became more and more. Guilin rice noodles are of a fairy taste, otherwise Mr. Li Zongren couldn¡¯t think of entertaining his friends with rice noodles to seek votes in that year. Later he became the president, which shall be attributed to Guilin rice noodles first. 

In the War in Resistance against Japanese, many men of letters fled to Guilin to seek refugee. Mao Dun was one of them. At that time, he hadn't finished his saga novel yet, and had no author¡¯s remuneration. His family had no money for food. When the owner of the rice noodle shop which he often visited knew this, he said¡± All men need food or rice. Eat a bowl of rice noodles first and pay when you have money.¡± Hey! Mao Dun completed his saga novel Frost-bitten Leaves Look Redder Than Early Spring by eating the rice noodles on credit. At that time, Mao Dun was a hack. No one had expected that he who survived by means of rice noodles would became a literary giant later.