Yongchang Moon Cake: The taste of reunion in memory

The Mid -Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in my country. Eating mooncakes to enjoy the moon is a custom. As the Mid -Autumn Festival is approaching, the dazzling mooncakes have been listed first, but the people of Yongchang still like to make moon cakes at home. Yongchang moon cakes have become the most fragrant scenery of the circle of friends.

In the early morning, Yongchang moon cake production technique inherited Yan Caiping's home, kneading, sprinking, drawing, and steaming ... The family is busy in their respective "posts". Yongchang moon cakes are complicated. The process, the well -made Yongchang moon cake cake is soft and sweet, bright in color, beautiful in shape, different shapes, rich tastes, diameter can reach fifty and sixty centimeters, more than ten centimeters thick, weighing twenty or 30 kg, round moon cakes, exquisite exquisitely The pattern also symbolizes reunion and happiness. For local people in Yongchang, the traditional Yongchang moon cake is the first choice for the Mid -Autumn Festival. For foreign travelers, Yongchang moon cakes are the taste of their hometown. Yan Caiping said that although the technology and craftsmanship of moon cakes have made great progress, more and more ingredients are made, and the varieties are becoming more and more abundant, but the most attractive of moon cakes is the one that has been unchanged for thousands of years. The traditional taste, whether it is one person or a family division of labor, can add more emotional factors to the process of making moon cakes, and also make the moon cakes more reunited.

It is reported that Yongchang Mooncake was included in the county -level intangible cultural heritage representative project list announced by the People's Government of Yongchang County in January 2014. In December 2017, it was included in the city -level intangible cultural heritage representative projects announced by the People's Government of Jinchang City.

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