"Jiaxing Intangible Cultural Heritage" Eight Treasure Cake Making Techniques

　　Bazhen Cake is a Famous Spot of Jiashan, a specialty of Xitang, which was pioneered by the century-old Xitang Zhong Jiefu Pharmacy. Zhong Jiefu Pharmacy was built in the eleventh year of Qing Guangxu (1885), the founder Zhong Daosun. Zhong Jiefu Pharmacy, also known as "Zhong Jie Fu Tang", is taken from the "Book of Poetry • Chutz": "Repay the blessing of Jiefu, longevity has no boundaries". For more than 120 years, the store has won the trust of the city, flourished for a long time, and formed its own business characteristics. With the characteristics of full variety, excellent quality, low price and humanization, the store's specialties: refined thin slices of donkey skin glue, eight treasure cakes are more famous, well-known, is a century-old famous store in northern Zhejiang.

　　Zhong Daosun referred to the prescription of the Eight Immortal Cakes written by Chen Shigong in the Ming Dynasty, "The True Sect of Surgery", and combined with clinical experience to produce a health food with appetizing and strengthening the spleen, neutralizing, anti-diarrhea, and eliminating food - Eight Treasure Cakes. This cake is made of local high-quality glutinous rice and eight flavors of Traditional Chinese medicine, the early eight flavors of Chinese medicine are: Party ginseng, Huai Yam, white lentils, fried white art, coix kernel, coix fruit, lotus meat, five grain worms, in 2008, Xitang Zhongfutang Eight Treasure Cake Chinese medicine formula is: hawthorn, coix kernel, white lentils, coriander, poria, yam, malt, lotus heart. Eight treasure cakes have a sweet and crisp taste, no medicinal taste, and pharmacology in food therapy, which is both a medicine and a good cake, which is suitable for all ages and is quite popular. For summer damp fever, pediatric chancre, chancre, summer fever and other diseases, it has changed the prescription of Eight Treasure Cakes operated by pharmacies around the world, and the effect is particularly obvious. Eight treasure cakes are sold every year in the summer to the Liqiu harvest market, the public buys enthusiastically, and the 19th year of the Republic of China is the peak of business, and its reputation is far and wide. The annual sales volume is 12,500 kilograms, mainly sold to Jiaxing, Lili, Shengze, Luxu, Pingwang and other surrounding areas, and there are also certain sales in shanghai and other places.

　　The production technology of Xitang Eight Rare Cakes was included in the third batch of Zhejiang Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage List.

Source: Jiaxing Archives

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