Daoxiangcun, located on the east side of Guanqian Street, founded in the Qing Dynasty in the 38th year of the Qianlong reign (1773 AD), taking Cao Xueqin's famous novel "Dream of Red Mansions" in the Grand View Garden of the Taoxiangcun for the name, is the current production and distribution of Suzhou's long history of Soviet-style pastries, the most famous professional stores (factories), but also a more comprehensive heritage and development of the Soviet-style pastries of the most representative stores (factories), because of its production of excellent skills, and also famous for operating Soviet-style game. On August 31, 1926, Suzhou Ming Pao published an advertisement for the inauguration of the new house of Taoxiangcun, stating that: "We have been opened at the east end of Su Si Lane in front of Xuan Miao Guan in Suzhou for more than a hundred years, and due to the expansion of our business, we are still renovating the original site to build a tall, oceanic-style facade. On the occasion of the completion of the new house, the word "Wo" was added to the trademark. However, according to the 1914 "Jiangsu Province Industrial Administrative Report", Taoxiangcun was founded in 1864, the third year of Tongzhi. In 1931, the "Dietary Mutual Measures of Mellow Chinese Restaurant" said, "The owner of Taoxiangcun, surnamed Shen, took refuge in the countryside during the reign of Hong Yang and had set up a tea and food stall in a village on the shores of Yangcheng Lake, and the business was still not bad. After the chaos back to the city, the accumulation of capital has been rich, because of the proposed expansion of business, set up a restaurant in the street in front of the view." The above records each stick to one theory, it is difficult to examine in detail. Through the "master with apprentice" way of passing from generation to generation, "South store north open, south flavor north open", soon blossomed in dozens of cities in the north, popular for a while. But unfortunately, the same root, the same source, the same door of the "Taoxiangcun", is still under the same brand, in dozens of cities to fight for their own.

There are different stories about the store sign of Taoxiangcun. According to the store's past legend, the owner Wang Qiu Gen, ancestors like to read "Dream of Red Mansions", and later inspired by the "Dream of Red Mansions", but also associated with the raw materials of tea and cakes are rice and wheat, so decided to take the name of the "rice-Xiangcun". However, in the "Mellow Museum diet chopped meat," but said: "shopkeeper Shen surnamed ...... set up shop in Guanqian Street, the signboard lack of people inscribed, it is on the business of their close friends, friends of the Taihu Lake shore dill radish farmers, a little knowledge of a little less, like to watch the novels, see the Dream of Red Mansions, the Grand View Garden has a plaque such as the village of rice, that is, the selection of the three words, the name for the store of Shen.

The factory has 276 employees, including 203 pastry production workers, workshop area of 3,000 square meters, business area of 200 square meters, expanded in 1986 for the Taoxiangcun Food Factory, still maintains the traditional characteristics of the former store and workshop (factory).

Now Taoxiangcun produces candy, game, fried goods, green salt preserves and part-time Western-style sugar Guo, cookies, canned food, dairy products, beverages, etc., but also operates its own traditional characteristics of the tea and cakes *** 22 categories, more than 130 varieties, of which 70 year-round varieties, seasonal varieties of 60 varieties, seasonal varieties with the four seasons, seasonal changes and change, award-winning products of each brand ten.

The famous tea cakes supplied all year round are: lard and pine nuts date paste cake, almond cake, onion and peach cake, thin crispy cake, foreign money cake, lard and pine nuts cake, Hari cake, bean paste cake, ear cake, sock bottom cake, jade belt cake, fresh meat dumplings, plate crispy cake, kraft cake, and cross-cutting slices.

Famous seasonal tea cakes, spring apricot sesame cake, wine cake, sugar snow cake, meat snow cake, spring cake, etc., summer mint cake, Indian cake, Poria cake, horseshoe cake, steamed cake, meat and vegetable mung bean cake, ice and snow cake, summer shortening, sour plum juice, etc., fall Ruyi cake, Qiaoguo, Buddha's hand cake, all kinds of Soviet-style shortcrust cake, winter has the Hop Peach Crisp, shortcrust eight pieces, etc..

The store smoked salted game is also very famous such as meat, duck gizzard liver, etc., according to the "Wuzhong Recipes" book; Taoxiangcun production of square cake, pine king thousand cakes daily are fixed, never crude. And the store made smoked fish, duck ...... are concerned about fresh, making smoked fish, non-mackerel not smoked. The so-called "better to have a shortage than to have a shortage." This is the general game store can not be compared, only nowadays Taoxiangcun game has disappeared supply, its production master is also old, the store is actively training personnel, so that this game characteristics of the successor.

The famous brand-name products of Taoxiangcun are described in detail in the book, "Taoxiangcun's mooncakes are the best of all. ...... They are good in the sense that they are heavy on sugar and oil, and are easy to melt in the mouth. There are rose, bean paste, licorice, salt and pepper and other names. The price of each cake copper yuan ten. Each box of four cakes, known as meat moon cakes; if the small meat moon cakes, the price is reduced by half, the name and color of the same meat. But one of the number of water rose, with white sugar, red flowers, and made of meat oil. Compared with the meat, especially delicious. There are still round, large and flat moon cakes, called the Moon Palace cake, referred to as Palace cake, filled with date paste and meat oil, each cake copper yuan twenty, two per box. This is the best sweet moon cakes. As for savory moon cakes, in the past there were only two kinds of southern leg, scallion oil. In recent years, fresh meat mooncakes have been added. These three should be eaten right out of the oven, then the skin is crispy and flavorful, Xun special flavor."

"Ding Sheng cake and wine cake, for the spring popular food. However, the Ding Sheng cake is also in the Taoxiangcun for the soft and hard appropriate."

"Smoked fish, wild duck, also to Taoxiangcun for the best ...... these three (according to: refers to the Taoxiangcun, Ye affected by the and, Donglu) non-smoked fish, the so-called rather lack than abuse."

"Complex rose lard marketed in March and April generous cake, sugar and lard, adding brightly colored roses, fragrant and sweet. But steamed out of the kettle, in the morning at about six o'clock, the morning of the early people to eat, a little late was seized by hawkers and other buy all, in vain, make people salivate."

These traditional famous points, today's Taoxiangcun food store still continue to produce, such as water rose moon cake, sesame seed pastry, pine nuts and date mud hemp cake, meat and wine stuffed cake, through the flavor of smoked fish, shrimp replica watches and so on. Hong Kong's "Wen Wei Po" has been "four seasons of tea flavor elegant, Taoxiang Village pastries such as Taoxiang" as the title, introduced the long history of Taoxiang Village and more than 130 traditional varieties, more than 60 seasonal products; that Taoxiang Village production of pastries, in addition to having the general characteristics of the Soviet-style pastries, but also their own unique features, that is, seasonal freshness, taste and shape and weight. This is a hundred years of Taoxiangcun can be based on the present and not decline the fundamental.