"Spring wind wheat up, a moment worth a thousand gold", in ancient times, people attach importance to farming, according to the solar terms, the spring equinox is a good day for spring ploughing, at this time the day and night are equally long, cold and summer are flat, it is a period of balanced yin and yang in the year, so in order to thank the heavens and the earth, pray for a good harvest, the day of the spring equinox, the emperor will rush to the outskirts of Beijing with his courtiers to "sacrifice the sun on the altar", at the beginning of the morning light, kneel to worship the "sun god" in the east, in order to pray for good luck, thank the sun for the light given to the world.
Although this ancient seasonal custom does not catch up with the ancient "sacrifice to the heavens" ceremony, the ceremony is also quite solemn. In the Beijing Customs Chronicle, there is a spring equinox festival day, "it is the great ceremony of the country, and the people are not allowed to worship without permission." In addition to the Imperial Family, on the day of the Spring Equinox, every household in the capital will buy some "sun cakes", burn incense and make offerings, and place them on the offering table to repay the favor of the "sun god".
Sun cake is also known as "spring cake", is both an offering, but also a food that should be festival, in the "Yanjing Chronicle" there is "rice dough into a small cake, five pieces of a layer, through the inch of chicken, called the sun cake", that is, with glutinous rice flour and into the dough, made into small cakes and then stacked in turn, the above painting on the sun or rooster appearance, meaning "the sun rises, backgammon", "golden rooster announces, the day is good", the filling inside is also mostly sweet, more in line with the spring "acid-saving and sweetening" eating habits, eat better and healthier, Folk also have a taste of sun cake, grain abundance, and then taste a bite, the beautiful meaning of auspicious new year.
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Ingredients required: 1 bowl of glutinous rice flour, bean paste filling, 2 spoonfuls of brown sugar, 1/2 bowl of black sesame seeds.
1: Find a suitable large bowl, pour in glutinous rice flour, add water in small quantities and times, and knead the glutinous rice flour into a soft and moderate glutinous rice ball.
2: Knead the glutinous rice balls into long strips, cut into small pieces of the same size, and then gently roll out into a half-centimeter thick round cake with a rolling pin, and steam for about 10 minutes after steaming in the steamer.
Tips: Glutinous rice flour is sticky, when steaming, you can brush a little oil on the plate or pad an oil absorbent paper, so as not to stick to the grate after steaming, it is not easy to fall off.
3, black sesame seeds with low heat stir-fried into the bowl, add 2 spoons of brown sugar, the right amount of bean paste filling, stir evenly and set aside, do not like the black sesame granularity of friends, you can crush the black sesame seeds and then mix.
4: After steaming, take it out and let it dry until warm, and apply a layer of prepared filling to a layer of glutinous rice cake, so that 5 layers of glutinous rice cake are stacked continuously.
5, after all the stacks are neat, the sun cake is basically finished, and finally use chopsticks to draw a shape of the sun on it.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" >- Lao Jing said </h1>
The custom of eating "sun cake" in the spring equinox has been slowly diluted by everyone, selling sun cake is also rare, and even many people do not know the custom of eating sun cake at the spring equinox, but in the past farming era, the spring equinox to eat sun cake is very popular, just like the dragon boat dumplings, the mid-autumn moon cake, the spring equinox season has arrived, it is better to make a piece of "sun cake" for the family, happiness and health, auspicious and happy, implying that the family will step by step in the new year.
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