According to legend, the Mid-Autumn Festival Bo Cake was invented by Zheng Chenggong when he stationed troops in Xiamen to relieve the soldiers' love for the Mid-Autumn Festival and inspire their morale. Thus, handed down from generation to generation, it has become a unique folk custom in Xiamen today.

At first, I always thought that the word "Bo" of Bo cake should be "Bo", which meant fighting. Later, when I looked it up in the dictionary, I realized that the word "Bo" had its own reasons. In ancient times, "Bo" was a kind of chess game, which later referred to gambling. Of course, following up to now, Bo cake no longer means gambling, but has become a reserved program for Xiamen people's Mid-Autumn Festival party. When the dice fall in a big porcelain bowl, they make a tinkling sound, when laughter floats from people's hearts and happy smiles are everywhere, the feeling of happiness is always particularly warm.

The Mid-Autumn Festival Bo Cake is about being happy, which is a good sign for Bo. Most people are willing to believe that the person who wins the first prize in Bo will always be particularly lucky in a year. This is of course because people's emotional sustenance is poured into Bo Cake activities. Therefore, Xiamen people always attach great importance to the Mid-Autumn Festival, and even have the saying "Small Spring Festival, Big Mid-Autumn Festival".

When many foreigners come to Xiamen, they will be moved by this custom with strong festive colors. Many of my college classmates also enjoyed this interesting and participatory activity during their studies.

Same moonlight, different Mid-Autumn Festival; The same mid-autumn moon, different moon cake culture. Welcome to Xiamen to experience this unique Mid-Autumn Festival culture. The first Mid-Autumn Festival of Bo Cake in Xiamen (Gulangyu Island) is about to kick off in the beautiful Qindao. I hope more people will know about Xiamen and understand the Mid-Autumn Festival Bo Cake culture!

Moon cakes have their own name in the Bo cake custom in Xiamen, which is called Hui cake. This is one of the indispensable "props" of the Mid-Autumn Festival Expo.

Traditional party cakes are made up of moon cakes of different sizes. A set of party cakes includes: Zhuangyuan cake 1 piece, two hall cakes, four red cakes, eight four-way cakes, two-way cakes 16, and thirty-two show cakes.

What's particularly interesting is that the "three red" cakes taste the best among the cakes, which comes from an interesting legend: in the 22nd year of Yongle (1442), palace examination, a Jiachen branch, was named Sun Yuegong as the top scholar, and Ming Chengzu thought that the combination of "yue" and "gong" was "violent" and unlucky, so he was placed third. According to the Xiamen people, the No.1 scholar is not necessarily a generation of "man of great talent", but the No.3 scholar has real talent and practical learning. Therefore, the taste of Zhuangyuan cake is just so-so, and Sanhong cake always tastes the best.

Nowadays, Bo Cake is still Xiamen people's favorite Mid-Autumn Festival activity, and it is also the most lively folk festival form. However, the form of "Hui Cake" is also changing, and more new "Hui Cake" has appeared, which is no longer moon cakes, but a combination of practical items, such as shower gel, shampoo, etc., or food, such as jelly, potato chips and cola. Anyway, it is what you want. This may be because people just want to have fun in festivals, and this fun has become more practical.

Bo cake tools:

Will be a set of cakes, a pair of dice (6), a big bowl (a little deep, and a porcelain bowl is good, so that the dice can jump in the bowl)

The method of rich cake:

It's roughly like this: everyone throws six dice into a big bowl at a time (again, it must be played with a porcelain bowl), and everyone throws dice in turn to see the number of dice to get a cake.

There are 1 cake with "four points red" (Figure 1).

There are two "four-point red" cakes (Figure 2).

If there are four identical points (except Red Four), you can get four cakes (Figure 3).

There are three "four red" cakes (Figure 4).

If the number of dice is 1 to 6, respectively, you will get the right cake (Figure 5), and then you will get the zhuangyuan cake. There are many grades for the champion. The ranking of the champion shown in Figure 6. 1-6.4 is from small to large, specifically:

If there are four "four-dot reds" (Figure 6. 1), you can choose a pie. If two people have four "four-dot reds", compare the points of the other two dice, and the one with the largest points will win.

There are five people with the same number of points (Figure 6.2), and it is common that "five children enter the subject", which is bigger than the four "four-point red" champions.

If four "four-dot reds" and two "one-dot reds" are added (Figure 6.3), it is called "golden flower inserted by the champion", which is second only to the six dice with the same number of points (Figure 6.4).

Special circumstances:

Six "Four Red Dots" (Figure 7. 1) are called "Six Red Dots", and all the cakes are owned by the investors.

Six "six blackouts" (Figure 7.2), called "six blackouts", should turn off the lights and grab cakes.

Description:

1, the same five reds or five sons bring more points >; Less points, that is, band 6 is the largest and band 1 is the smallest.

2. The same four reds bring more points > The number of points is small, with 12 being the largest and with three being the smallest.

3. If the number of points of the number one scholar inserting golden flowers, five reds, five sons and four reds is equal, the first one will blog >; Post-bloggers.

4, win the red six bob or black six bob, and the blog will end immediately. Hongliubo gets the cake that has not been won, while Heiliubo eats the cake that has not been won. Whether to adopt six stripes of red and six stripes of black is generally according to everyone's wishes. Many times, in order to take care of the players and get prizes, these two situations are ignored.

5. If you win the gold flower in the champion, you can have the opponent's court that has not been won. If the player "loses his bones" in the subsequent rounds, the opponent's court will not be recovered, but only the champion will be recovered.

6. In the same game, the same player won the top prize twice or more, and the last score was taken as the final score.

7. If the dice jump out of the big bowl, the player's performance in this round will be invalid and a bye will be made.

One more thing: Generally speaking, those who win the top prize this year will donate cakes for everyone to play in the Mid-Autumn Festival next year. However, this rule is rarely done by young people nowadays, and it is better for everyone to make more AA systems together. ：

Some people should replace moon cakes with other items for some reasons.

Nowadays, many other gifts are used instead of moon cakes, or red envelopes are used instead.

The prize can be a pen or a notebook, or candy, biscuits or something.