Double Ninth Cake

Double Ninth Cake, also known as "Flower Cake", is a Double Ninth Festival food of the Han people. Popular in most parts of the country. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the Double Ninth Festival, also called the Respect for the Aged Day. Folks steam Double Ninth Cake to honor the elderly. The method of steaming Double Ninth Cake is the same as steaming New Year Cake, but the steamed cake should be smaller and thinner. In order to be beautiful and delicious, people make the Double Ninth Cake in colorful colors and sprinkle some mignonette flowers on the surface of the cake (so the Double Ninth Cake is also called Osmanthus Cake). The Double Ninth Cake made in this way is sweet and delicious and everyone loves to eat it.

Double Ninth Cake, also known as "Flower Cake", is a Double Ninth Festival food of the Han people. Popular in most parts of the country. It is named after it is eaten during the Double Ninth Festival. It existed in the Southern Dynasties. Rice noodles, fruits, etc. are often used as raw materials. The preparation methods vary from place to place. There are mainly two types: baking and steaming. Five colors are inserted into the cake

Double Ninth Cake

Small colorful flags are filled with fillings. Printing double sheep, which means "Double Ninth Festival", is still popular today.

Also known as "flower cake", "chrysanthemum cake", "fa cake", etc. It is a traditional food for the Double Ninth Festival. It is made from rice flour, soybean flour, etc., fermented, garnished with dates, chestnuts, almonds and other fruits, and steamed with sugar. It started before the Tang Dynasty and was very popular in Bianjing (now Kaifeng, Henan), Lin'an (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang) and other places in the Song Dynasty, and it is now a common custom. There are many kinds of cakes made, and colorful flags are placed on them, which are very popular among children. It has been popular ever since until modern times. "Yuan Jian Lei Han. Sui Sui. September 9th" quotes Du Taiqing's "Jade Candle Book" of the Sui Dynasty: "On the ninth day of the meal, the millet and millet are gathered together, so the sticky rice is flavored

To try something new." Another "Miscellaneous Notes of the Years": "Cake is still eaten during the Double Ninth Festival...mostly made with dates, chestnuts, and meat." Song Shaobo's "Shao's Records after Hearing It": "Liu I dreamed of writing a poem for nine days, and wanted to use the word "cake" because there was no such word in the Five Classics. Song Zijing thought otherwise, so he wrote the poem "Eating Cake for Nine Days": The light frost in the pavilion is blowing on the dawn robe, and the shadows of the flowers are fighting. Liu Lang did not dare to write the word "cake", so he was a great poet in ancient and modern times. "Tokyo Menghua Lu. Double Ninth Festival" written by Song Meng Yuan said: "One or two days ago, each person gave them steamed rice cakes." , put a small ribbon-cut flag on it, mix it with meat of fruits, such as pomegranate seeds, chestnut yellow, ginkgo, and pine nuts, and use powder to make the shape of a lion barbarian king, and place it on the cake, which is called "Lion Man King" by Wu Zimu of Song Dynasty. "Records. September": "On this day, people are in shops, steaming cakes with sugar and noodles, stuffed with pork, mutton, and duck silk clusters, placing small colorful flags, and making cakes for the Double Ninth Festival every day." Song Zhoumi's "Old Wulin Events. Chongjiu" ": "Everyone is the moon... and each of them takes chrysanthemum cake as a gift, which is made of sugar, meat, and noodles, topped with shredded pork duck cake, garnished with pomegranates, and marked with colorful flags. It is also called the Lion of the Barbarian King. On the top, cut chestnuts into crumbs, mix them with honey, and peel off cakes to use as fruit bait. "Liu Tong and Yu Yizheng of the Ming Dynasty" "Scenery of the Imperial Capital. Spring Field": "On September 9th...cakes." The noodles are grown with jujube and chestnuts, and they are called flower cakes. The cake shops are decorated with colorful banners, which are called flower cake flags. The parents will welcome their daughters to eat flower cakes. "Xie Zhaozhe's "Wuzazu" in the Ming Dynasty quoted Lü Gongji as saying: " At dawn in September, I would put a piece of cake on my children's foreheads and wish them well, saying: 'May everything be good for my children.' This is what the ancients meant by making cakes in September."