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What is the meaning of the Leap Month Leuniang Gao (留娘糕)

The custom of "staying mother's cake" means that you wish your mother a long and healthy life and stay with your daughter forever.

"Leap year, stay mother year". This is a saying that has been around since ancient times, and leap months have been considered detrimental to a mother's health. The "Leap Cake", also known as the "Leap Cake", is an extra month in a year that is not good for the mother's health, and refers to the cakes made by children to please their mothers in various ways.

Households with daughters, there is a leap month year, March and April when the mother to send flower cake saying, folk called "stay mother cake", meaning that I hope that the mother is healthy and long life, and will always stay by the side of the daughter, meaning health and longevity. Nowadays, many people will make the cake for their own mothers, or even in-laws, relatives and so on.

Legend of Liuniang Cake

Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a woman in Songshan who was very filial to her parents, and then in the leap month, due to the famine, and the natural and man-made disasters, the people were having a hard time.

So this woman is still very worried about whether their parents can eat well and wear warm, so they made a lot of flower cakes, to visit their parents, so it has been passed down to this day, is filial to their parents' customs.