【Current Politics Special Article Zhang Kai】
In a few days, it will be the Ninth Chongyang Festival in early September, and the chongyang cake, the favorite seasonal cake of old Suzhou, has been listed.
At the cake shop on Guanqian Street, both sales windows are lined up with customers, most of whom come to buy Chongyang cakes.
Climbing the heights of the Chongyang Festival and eating Chongyang cakes is a traditional custom, which means "step by step". Chongyang cake, also known as muffin, the filling is mainly bean paste, sandwiched in the middle of the pulp, sesame seeds, melon seeds, rose sauce and other condiments, the taste is soft, easy for the elderly to digest. This store alone sold nearly 5,000 chung yang cakes in one day today.
Chen Lei, the person in charge of the long-established pastry, introduced that it has now been 24 hours of full production, two shifts are constantly doing, the first two days a day to produce about 50,000 pieces of Chongyang cake, today is expected to produce 70,000 to 80,000 pieces a day.
Editor-in-charge: Wang Hao