Qi: Old Chen, as a native of Zibo, Shandong, do you know Zhoucun baked cakes?
Chen: Of course I know. It's rare that you old Qi doesn't know, I'll tell you carefully.
even:......
Chen: Zhoucun baked cake has a history of more than 1,800 years, originating from the Hu cake of the Han Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhoucun commerce developed, a variety of snacks came into being, with the Hu Cake sticker baking "Hu Cake Oven" introduced to Zhou Village at this time, the local restaurant created the big barnyard cake, which is the prototype of today's Zhoucun Baked Cake.
In modern times, Zhoucun baked cakes are based on the development of a master named Guo Yunlong in Wangjiazhuang, Zhoucun, which finally formed today's characteristics.
Qi: Today's Zhoucun baked cake has the four characteristics of "millet, incense, thinness and crispness", its shape is round and yellow, the front is covered with sesame seeds, the back of the hole is listed, thin like a poplar leaf, the entrance is chewed and broken, if it falls to the ground, it will all become fragments, so the Zhoucun baked cake is also commonly known as "Guala leaf baked cake".
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial family had several times to supply Zhoucun baked cakes, when the famous Shandong business "Badaxiang" specially ordered Zhoucun baked cakes to be sent to Fuwai as a good gift. During the Period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the people of Zhoucun used Zhoucun baked cakes as gifts to comfort the soldiers of the frontline volunteer army, and later also presented Zhoucun baked cakes to Chairman Mao.
Chen: You said what I haven't finished yet!
