The annual Mid-Autumn Festival, the full moon is more round. As a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, the Mid-Autumn Festival can be said to symbolize a good day for family reunion, and different folk customs celebrate this festival everywhere. In Xiamen, the Mid-Autumn Festival and even the whole month of August in the lunar calendar are the busiest times, even more lively than New Year's Eve.
The whole city is boiling, and the sound of dice hitting the bowl is everywhere. Bobbing (Postscript Cake) is a unique traditional Mid-Autumn Festival activity in Xiamen, which originated in the early Qing Dynasty. This is a unique moon cake culture and a historical heritage of Minnan people. Legend has it that the Mid-Autumn Festival was invented by Zheng Chenggong when he was stationed in Gulangyu, in order to relieve soldiers' love for the Mid-Autumn Festival and boost their morale. Therefore, it has been passed down from generation to generation and has become a unique folk custom in Xiamen today.
In the early years, everyone was so rich that it was a real cake. With the improvement of material life, many people replace cakes with various prizes, even those who have money directly.
Generally speaking, the more dice there are, the better. Mid-Autumn Festival, we can no longer avoid "four".
Bo cake custom originated from Zheng Chenggong;
It is said that around 1660, Hong Xu, a subordinate of Zheng Chenggong, and Tang Ya, a subordinate of the Ministry of War, came up with the game of making cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival in order to send soldiers to miss their relatives in their hometown during the festival.
Its rules are roughly as follows: according to the title of the imperial examination system at all levels, each meeting will have one champion, two opposite, three red and four (exploring flowers), four entering and eight four (Jinshi), sixteen two lifting (lifting people) and thirty-two outstanding Jinshi.
* * * There are 63 cake sizes, including 796 13, which is an auspicious number. Because 998 1 is the emperor's number and 8972 is the chitose number, Zheng Chenggong was named King Yanping, so the number 63 was used.