"Wait until the autumn comes on September 8, and I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom." The incense of the sky penetrated Chang'an, and the city was full of golden armor. This poem "Bu Di Hou Fu Ju" is a poem written by Huang Chao, the leader of the peasant revolt at the end of the Tang Dynasty. The gist is: when the Chongyang Festival comes in the autumn in September, the chrysanthemums will wither away after they are in full bloom. The blooming chrysanthemums are dazzling, the fragrance fills Chang'an, and the whole city is bathed in fragrant chrysanthemums, and the chrysanthemums are golden like armor everywhere.
Ancient Chang'an has the custom of ascending to the heights and admiring chrysanthemums on the Chongyang Festival on september 9 every year. In Huang Chao's poem "Not the First Fu Ju", the use of "September 8" is used to rhyme; golden armor refers to the chrysanthemum like golden yellow armor. The Eastern Jin Dynasty poet Tao Yuanming has a famous sentence "Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing the South Mountain", and the name of his love chrysanthemum is known to everyone, and the chrysanthemum has gradually become a symbol of the otherworldly hermit. Moreover, in the ancient myths and legends of our country, chrysanthemums have also been given the meaning of auspiciousness and longevity, and there is no shortage of literati and inkers who love chrysanthemums in the past.
This traditional pastry in the ancient capital of Xi'an, "Chrysanthemum Crisp", is said to have evolved from the idea of pastry in the "Burning Tail Banquet" in Chang'an, Kyoto in the early Tang Dynasty, and its historical origin is more than 160 years earlier than huang Chao's writing of this poem with the famous sentence "The incense of the sky penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor". Because chrysanthemums contain auspicious, longevity and otherworldly meanings, people have made "chrysanthemum crisp" pastry shaped like chrysanthemums, and they are also named because they are shaped like blooming chrysanthemums, symbolizing the blossoming of flowers and wealth, and the fortune of fortune. In Shaanxi, especially the "chrysanthemum crisp" in Xi'an and the "crystal chrysanthemum crisp" in Jingyang County are the most famous.
Chrysanthemum crisp
raw material
Wheat flour, sugar, plate oil, green silk, red silk, rock sugar, yellow cinnamon sauce, walnut kernels, cooked lard, etc.
Method of production
Cooked lard, etc. are fried or grilled in the shape of a chrysanthemum with flour and dough, and made with the ingredients.
peculiarity
Crystal clear, chrysanthemum-shaped, filling [yàn] sweet, soft skin and rich flavor.
Recommended by famous shops: Xi'an Qiulin Company
Qiulin Company is an old department store, like a big canteen, and like a Shaanxi specialty wholesale market. Whether it is freshly made snacks or snacks are very distinctive, delicious and inexpensive, economical, with the growth of a generation of Xi'an people.
Address: Xi'an Beilin District Yanta North Road and Jianxi Street intersection south side (china coal science and industry Xi'an Courtyard Yanta Road residential area northwest of about 50 meters)
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