Gengzi Rat Year, Leap April, Leap Month Year, Liu Niang Year, Liu Niang Nian Nian naturally indispensable Liu Niang Cake, "Liu Niang Cake" is also called "Leap Moon Cake", "Fu Shou Cake", is our common flower cake, the meaning is to hope that the mother will live a long and healthy life, always stay with the daughter, how much do you know about the Liu Niang cake?
The legend of Liu Niang Cake
Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a girl in Songshan who was very filial. In a leap month, there was a famine in the Central Plains. The girl thought that her parents usually did not have enough to eat, this year there is an extra month, do not know what kind of hunger will be, married to the field, she quickly made her own millet into a flower cake to go home to visit relatives, the story spread, so there is a daughter who marries every leap month to send flower cakes to her parents
Flower cake form changes
With the development of the times, "Leap Moon Liu Niang" has gradually become a way to express filial piety, and Liu Niang cake is not only given to the mother, but also to the father and in-laws. Today's flower cake is no longer as simple as before, but a variety of colored vegetables and fruits are juiced and noodles, and the flower cakes are colorful and diverse in shape. The form of liu niang cake is not limited to flower cake, and some people use cake instead of flower cake for convenience.
The shape of the flower cake is allegorical
Flower cake flower cake, icing on the cake backgammon, leap moon old life is tall, there are many exquisite cakes, first of all, the flower cake should be round, it is said that the circle is gold in the five elements, there is a noble meaning of wishing the mother; Han has the saying of "heaven round place", praising the mother's love as broad and generous as the sky, round and reunion meaning.
The flower cake style is allegorical
Because the leap year has thirteen months a year, some flower cakes should be placed around 13 red dates, and there is a saying in the Warring States Policy that "three dates are eaten by the sun, and the hundred years old does not look old", and the red dates are used to express the desire for the parents' bodies to be "strong".
Fish taken from koi, koi is a popular world of a kind of noble fish, the biggest feature is a long lifespan, so some in the flower cake on the top of a fish, to express the meaning of parents health and longevity, fish and "Yu" is a harmonic sound, there is also the meaning of the year there is More.
The custom of "staying in the leap month"
Different places, the "leap month to stay in the mother" of the xingfa is also different, some places in addition to the parents to send the mother cake, but also send red belt, red belt with the meaning of warding off evil spirits; some places Xing aunt to the nephew to send rice cake fish, rice cake fish is a fish-shaped rice cake; in some places in addition to sending parents to leave the mother cake, but also send peach canned and instant noodles, all three have the intention of hoping that parents will live a long life...