History on the table | Qianlong's moon cakes ten pounds weight

In the Mid -Autumn Festival, no matter how much the dishes on the table are, how many fruits in the plate are, and you can eat it again. You still have to eat a few mouthfuls of moon cakes. What high sugar and high calories, weight gain and unhealthy, as long as you don't eat too much, this is not a problem.

Moon cakes are to be eaten in the Mid -Autumn Festival. How did "moon cake" come from? Some people say that moon cakes originated from the cake and were introduced from the Western Regions. But the cake and moon cake are far from the difference. Searching for historical books, the name "Mooncake" did not appear until the Southern Song Dynasty. But at that time, the moon cakes were all four o'clock, not for Mid -Autumn Festival.

In the Ming Dynasty, the moon cakes were in contact with Mid -Autumn Festival. "Journey to the West Lake" said that the folk is given to each other with moon cakes and takes the righteousness of reunion. This custom has spread to this day.

But the way of eating moon cakes in the Ming Dynasty is different from now. The Ming eunuch Liu Ruoyu recorded in "Delivery": On the 15th of the (August), every family for moon cakes and fruits. On the moon, after the incense, they drank it, and they started to disperse at night. If there is a moon cake left, it is still closed in the dry and cool place. Until the year of the year, the Muhe family is split, saying: "Reunion Cake" also.

In the Qing Dynasty, this kind of food palace was still prevalent. According to the Qing Palace, in August 15th of the 41st in Qianlong, two three pounds of moon cakes were prepared, one ten pounds weighed. Three pounds weigh, eat it first, and then send the concubines, princes and courtiers, and stay in the New Year until the New Year. There are records of the file: New Year's Eve, Late Lucky, and the wine meal, one moon cake received on August 15th, one Yuanguang, cut into two pieces, and use red patent leather plates ... Essence The "Yuan Guang" here is also a kind of food. It is used to sacrifice the day. The moon cake is used to sacrifice the moon. Enjoying Qianlong on New Year's Eve is undoubtedly the meaning of expressing the sun and the moon.

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So, what kind of moon cakes are Qianlong's mooncakes? That may be different every year. On the 10th and August 13th day of Qianlong on August, August 13th, Ling Fei and Yue Fei used 800 moon cakes: "160 (red) of berry jujube stuffing moon cakes, sesame oil fruit stuffing moon cakes One hundred and sixty (original color), 160 (white) of pepper and sesame stuffing moon cakes, 160 moon cakes of sesame oil Chengsha stuffing, and 160 (white) of lard pine fruit stuffing moon cakes . "As for how to use it, it is nothing more than sacrificing the moon or eating or rewarding. It can be seen that the moon cake filling in the palace is still very rich.

As for the people, the fillings used are not as rich as the palace, but it will not be too bad. The salty people have moon cakes such as bacon and mildew. Sweet people include sweet meat, golden legs, roasted chicken, barbecued pork, bean paste, bean paste, lotus, lotus, sugarcane and other moon cakes.

The Qing Dynasty Yuan Mei introduced a moon cake method in "Suiyuan Food List". Make stuffing. It is very sweet to eat, but the fragrant is soft, but it is unusual. "From the ingredients, it is quite like the current five kernel moon cakes, or it can be named" Sanren Moon Cake ".

Moon cakes are produced everywhere, and people from various places recognize moon cakes in various places to taste authentic. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the "Ning -style moon cakes" produced in Nanjing were also well -known. There were "Lai Moon Cake" and Jinling Pepper Crispy Mooncakes of Liuhegua, who had used tribute. In addition, Nanjing's Jinling Cake was famous all over the country. It is stacked with moon cakes of different sizes. Some of them are five floors, and some are seven layers. The top is embellished with a delicate Shoueta and sold it. This kind of cake, Sun Yat -sen also tasted in Nanjing.

Source: Yangtze Evening News Zi Niu News Micro Historical Records

Edit: Qin Xiaoyi

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