Flower cakes in the old streets of Chang'an Weiqu
I don't know when it started, Chang'an custom has that uncle's milk wants to send Qulian and flower cakes to his grandson. When I was young, every year in the summer busy summer of the lunar calendar, my uncle's grandmother sent Qu Lian to my brother and sister, and in the autumn busy, I wanted to send flower cakes. Qu Lian is a steamed bun, like a variation of the reins worn on the neck of a noble child (the rope that tethers cattle and horses), while the flower cake is steamed, like a small millstone, overlapping several layers up and down, and embellished with floral ornaments or animal shapes, and then painted with various paint dots, the flowers are green and green, very beautiful.
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!
Afternoon of October 24, 2020
The author is a member of Xi'an Photographers Association and Xi'an Writers Association
Disclaimer: The eighth picture is a sacrificial steamed bun in Chang'an at the mouth of the old street of Chang'an Weiqu, and the ninth picture is a diners eating koshiki cake photographed on the side of the road in the old street! Now the old street of Weiqu does not belong to Chang'an, and is under the management of the space base!