Shaoxing sweet cake is a famous scenic spot in Zhejiang with a long history. According to legend, a long time ago, at the foot of the mountain near the West Lake in Hangzhou, there lived a Shaoxing man named Meng. Because he is young, people call him Xiao Shaoxing. Shaoxing gets up in the middle of the night every day, grinds rice noodles, steamed muffins, and sells fried cakes at dawn to support himself and his blind mother. One year on New Year's Day, because Hang Cheng has the habit of climbing mountains during the Spring Festival, in order to win the luck of "climbing mountains step by step", tourists shuttled up and down Huangcheng Mountain. Small muffins in Shaoxing sold quickly, and soon, only a small piece of broken muffins was sold. Shaoxing remembered that her mother had not eaten yet, so she left this broken horn cake and prepared to take it back to her mother to eat. When he arrived at the Chenghuang Temple, he saw an old man with white hair and silver beard. His head leaned against two broken bowls, mouth to mouth, and he reached out and begged him. It turned out to be Lv Dongbin, the fairy in the dam cave. Seeing the troubles in the world, he went down to have a look. At that time, Xiao Shaoxing didn't know that this was Lv Dongbin. Seeing that the old man was ragged and scrawny, he felt very sympathetic and took out some copper coins for the old man. Who knows that the old man wants sponge cake instead of copper coins? Shaoxing took out the broken horn cakes left by her mother and handed them to the old man. The old man began to eat rudely. When Xiao Shaoxing returned home, he told his mother about it. Mother is very grateful. From then on, Xiao Shaoxing walked past the temple every day. Whenever he saw the old man, he gave him a muffin. One day, when the old man saw Xiao Shaoxing was sad, he handed him a piece of cake and asked, "What's the matter with you?" Shaoxing replied: "It has been raining for days, and business is light, so muffins can't be sold. My mother's leftover cake is seriously ill and she doesn't think about tea and rice. " Hearing this, the old man laughed: "Don't worry, there is nothing to eat, but I have good medicine." With that, he took a gourd out of his pocket and handed it to Xiao Shaoxing. Someone asked him to make a muffin, so he put the medicine in the gourd into the muffin, and his mother would be fine if she ate the cake. After speaking, a gust of wind made the old man disappear. Shaoxing met a fairy, remembered the broken bowl of the old population, and suddenly realized that it was Lv Dongbin. So I went home happily and made muffins according to Lv Dongbin's instructions. First, he poured a little medicine out of the gourd, put it into the cake powder, made it into a cake embryo, and steamed it on the fire. After the cakes are cooled, put them on charcoal fire one by one and bake them into golden brown. Baked muffins give off a strange smell. After three days and three nights, the old mother smelled this strange smell and suddenly felt hungry, so she asked Xiao Shaoxing to bring the cake to eat. After the old mother ate the cake, she was fine the next day. Since then, Xiao Shaoxing has been making cakes in this way. Because this kind of cake smells delicious and tastes sweet and delicious, everyone praises it. So I changed the name of sponge cake to "crispy". Because sweet cake is made in Shaoxing, it is also called "Shaoxing sweet cake". Later, people learned that the medicine put in sweet cake turned out to be Amomum villosum in Chinese medicine. Amomum villosum is warm, which can regulate qi, broaden chest, strengthen spleen and stomach and stimulate appetite. Suitable for spleen and stomach qi stagnation and dyspepsia. As a diet food, sweet cake is more popular.