"Wei Yuanping", a netizen of the Chinese Entrepreneurs Forum, posted: I don't know when to start, Chang'an custom has uncles and grandmothers to send Qulian and flower cakes to their grandson.
When I was young, every year in the summer of the lunar calendar, my uncle's grandmother sent Qu Lian (Qu Sickle) to my brother and sister, and in the autumn, I wanted to send flower cakes. Qu Lian is a variation of the steamed bun, like the reins (the rope that tethers cattle and horses) worn by the neck of the noble breeder, and as for what is exquisite, I will not discuss it here today. And the flower cake is to be steamed, much larger than you see, steamed buns like small millstones, two or three pounds or even more, several layers of overlap, and embellished with floral ornaments or animal genera to create shapes, and then painted with a variety of paint dots, flowers and green, very beautiful, this must be allegorical.
The east bank of Chang'an and the western slices on both sides of the Feng River are sent flower cakes, but the size and style are also different. In general, the east is small and the west is large, and the flower cakes on the east bank are packed in small square baskets, and then put a few small dolls' cakes, while the Chang'an western slices are to bear one with water burdens, one is the size of a small mill plate, and the flower cakes are arranged on the flowers.
Now that it is autumn busy, the uncle's grandmother has begun to send flower cakes to the little "grinding and sickle water" again. Today saturday there is nothing to do, strolling to the old streets of Chang'an, seeing several stalls selling flower cakes are very lively, the big flower cakes are sold on the pound, one pound thirteen pieces, the small flower cake is twenty, and some children's pinch cakes have the appearance of the cake.
In fact, what is lost is the years, and what is precipitated is the memory! Whether it is flower cakes or the old streets of Chang'an Weiqu, it is like this.
