"Chongyang", the ninth day of the first month of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the ancients took nine as the yang number, so they called the ninth day of the first month of September the Chongyang Festival. The celebration of chongyang festival generally includes activities such as traveling to enjoy autumn, ascending to the heights, viewing chrysanthemums, planting chrysanthemums, eating Chongyang cakes, and drinking chrysanthemum wine
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You can only see eating Chongyang cake
What's more, the old ancestors said it
"The people eat for heaven"
Eating is the most important thing in the world!
Chongyang cake, derived from ascending. Chongyang ascends, and legend has it that it can avoid disasters and pray for blessings. People who are unable to ascend or do not want to ascend to a high place eat cakes at home.
Folk belief, "cake" and "high" harmonic sound, the ancients have a hundred things are high said, as a festival food, the earliest is to celebrate the autumn grain harvest, like to taste the intention of new grain, and then the folk have ascended to eat cakes, meaning step by step.
Shanxi Over Chongyang is very distinctive in terms of diet,
On this day, you have to eat dumplings, steamed dumplings and Chongyang cake.
Here the emphasis is on Chongyang Cake,
Shanxi people call it "flower cake", "hair cake" and "chrysanthemum cake",
The custom of eating Chongyang cake was already very common in the Song Dynasty, and it was followed in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Shanxi is the hometown of noodles,
Chongyang cake is one of the traditional varieties of Shanxi pasta pastry,
Filled with date paste, ginkgo biloba, pine nuts, apricots, etc.,
Each layer of sandwich filling, a total of nine layers,
Symbolizes the "Ninth Heaven";
Some make two lambs on a pastry,
It means "Chongyang".
To this day, Shanxi still attaches importance to the harmonic sound of "cake",
Every time in Chongyang, every family will eat cakes,
Children come back from school or after work,
Mom would bring a plate of cakes.
Shout out to you for the cake.
If they can't eat, they will be very unhappy.
You have to be forced to eat, even if it's a bite.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Shanxi flower cake</h1>
In Shanxi, the hometown of pasta,
There are also many ways to eat cakes.
Due to the different production methods,
There are vegetarian cakes and oil cakes;
Depending on the raw materials used,
There are also glutinous rice cakes, rice cakes, and white noodle cakes;
Depending on the filling,
There is also a difference between vegetable cake, bean paste cake and date paste cake.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Datong vegetarian cake and fried cake</h1>
The cake is mainly made of yellow rice noodles,
With the four characteristics of "yellow, soft, tendon and incense",
There are two ways to eat,
One is "vegetarian cake" and the other is "fried cake".
When making vegetarian cakes, it is necessary to clean the yellow rice, grind it into yellow rice noodles, put it in a basin and mix it with water into a round shape, steam it layer by layer on the cage drawer, and gradually form the yellow rice noodles in steam, at this time the yellow cake has been full of fragrance.
Pour the steaming cake into a porcelain basin, dip your hands in a little cold water, and pound on this unformed and hot yellow cake. At this time, the action must be fast, although it is hot, but can not slacken off, must try to maintain its temperature, and when it is cold, it will be stiff, eating vegetarian cakes, wrapping fried cakes is not good.
After mashing the yellow cake, apply a layer of sesame oil while hot to prevent sticky pots and dry cracks. At this time, it is finished, and it has become a real yellow cake, shiny, golden, fragrant, and mouth-watering.
Fried cakes are more exquisite, fried cakes must have the characteristics of small, thin skin, and many patterns, and their flower samples are divided into three kinds: bean filling, sugar filling, and vegetable filling.
There are four kinds of bean paste: adzuki bean, cowpea, lentils and kidney beans; There are two kinds of sugar filling, brown sugar and white sugar, and each adds green and red silk, rose, walnut kernel, preserved fruit, etc.; The vegetable filling has mung bean sprouts, yam, and carrot.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Jinzhong huangzi cake</h1>
Yellow, the oldest food,
Also sowing seeds and sprouting in this ancient land of Shanxi,
And constantly deduce into this most beautiful taste of the tip of the tongue!
The pastry embryo is ground into a noodle with a mochi, called cake noodles, add a small amount of water and mix it, put it in a steamer and steam for half an hour, add an appropriate amount of vegetable oil and water after steaming, and knead it into a dough. Roll out into half a centimeter thick dough and roll it with a layer of pitted date paste.
Because this dessert is delicious when fried and eaten, the average person always makes it in advance and puts it in the refrigerator at home, and eats it as he pleases.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Yangquan jujube cake</h1>
Jujube cake,
For Yangquan, Shanxi, it is a well-known delicacy.
With its delicious taste and character,
Nutrition has become one of the representatives of Yangquan cuisine,
It is a must-taste Yangquan authentic food for outsiders.
Jujube cake is made of yellow rice noodles and dates, the process is simple but difficult to grasp, so it is a very deep technique to make jujube cake. After decades of exploration, the general teacher fu can grasp the heat and grasp the "degree" of the good and noodles.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Linfen glutinous rice cake</h1>
Glutinous rice cake,
It is a traditional pastry made by mixing glutinous rice and dried fruits.
Glutinous rice cake is also particularly delicious,
Many elderly people and children especially like to eat this pastry,
Steam the glutinous rice, put it in a cool place to dry, knead it while drying, let the particles spread out and store, and fry the rice grains when used.
Combine the white sugar and the syrup in proportion, boil it into a syrup, glue the fried glutinous rice flowers together, flatten it, lay a layer of cooked noodles on top, and prepare the white frost proportionally with the sugar, and cut it into rectangular pieces after cooling.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Xiangning white noodle cake</h1>
The climate in the northern and central Jinbei and Jinzhong regions of Shanxi is cold,
Crops are mainly based on various coarse grains,
Therefore, the fried cakes here are generally made of yellow rice noodles;
The Jinnan region is rich in wheat,
Fried cakes are generally made of white noodles,
In particular, Xiangning white noodle oil cake is the most famous.
Xiangning oil cake is made by boiling white noodles in boiling water and wrapped in filling, and is famous for its "crispy skin and soft meat and sweet taste".
Round as a cake, shaped like a drum, colored like copper, fragrant.
Cake not only in Chongyang,
It can be found at any festive feast,
You can often hear people chanting to eat,
Even the traditional yellow rice noodle oil cake,
Will also blurt out "step by step" or "step by step",
It shows that the cultural meaning of Chongyang cake has long been integrated into the beliefs and customs of Shanxi people.
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