Origin and Symbolism of Flower Cake
The moral of the flower cake is to express the step-by-step promotion. According to the Southern Liang Wu Jun "renewed Qi Harmonic Records," said the Han Dynasty, the formation of the first nine days of September climbed the mountains, drinking chrysanthemum wine, eating steamed cakes, dogwood and other festivals, and later by the local geomorphology and the limitations of material resources, wheat-producing areas of the people to make a variety of patterns of flour steamed cake, known as the flower cake. Steamed flower cake symbolizes step by step rise and prosperity, because the cake and "high" homophonic, and a layer higher than a layer, implying that the days are red-hot, sweet and honey, life is high every year, step by step, red dates imply that life is red-hot, sweet and honey. The word "steam" in "Steamed Flower Cake" symbolizes "rising day by day", and the word "cake" and "high" have the same sound, and one layer is higher than the other, implying that the days are red-hot and sweet. The cake is a symbol of a prosperous day and a high life year after year.