Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province is a port city along the Yangtze River with a long history. It is located at the junction of Jiangxi, Anhui and Hubei provinces, near the lake by the river. There are abundant products here, including the Yangtze River, Poyang Lake, Lushan Mountain and other natural attractions. Therefore, it also gathers food cultures from all over the country. Among them, jiujiang tea cake is a famous Han snack in Jiujiang, Jiangxi.
Jiujiang tea cake, which originated in the Tang Dynasty, is one of the four famous cakes in Jiangxi. It is developed by using traditional techniques and modern technology. Su Dongpo, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once praised his poem: a small cake is like chewing the moon, and it is full in the crisp. Its color is golden, small and thin, thin and crisp, crisp and sweet, fragrant and beautiful. Because it exudes the fragrance of tea oil, sweet-scented osmanthus and the strange fragrance of soda ash and soda, it is called the fine point of tea and food with four fragrances in one. It is nutritious, easy to digest, suitable for all ages, and easy to change color after long-term consumption, and has become one of the best foods in the tourism market.
Wei, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a famous sentence when he lived in Xunyang Building. Here, Wei Wuying also formed an indissoluble bond with Xunyanglou tea cake. According to legend, this is a good time for Wei Wuying to get together with friends on Xunyang Building. The sun is setting and the breeze is blowing gently. However, when he saw the sparkling Yangtze River, the fishing boat was going home, Lushan Mountain was faintly discernible, and the rhythm of "moonlight on the spring river" was lingering. The poet was so happy that he said to the waiter, "Make a pot of good Yunwu tea and prepare some special snacks."
After a while, the waiter brought a pot of fragrant tea and a plate of biscuits. However, when the poet saw that the cupcake looked like Go, he took one and gave it a gentle beating. He felt that the skin was crisp and the filling was crisp. After eating, he left a fragrance on his teeth and cheeks. He hurriedly asked the waiter, what's the name of this cake? The waiter replied, "This cake was specially made by a pastry chef named Lu in Xunyang Building. It has no name yet." Wei Wuying said with a smile, "This cake is a cake to accompany tea, so it is called tea cake. It is the exclusive property of Xunyanglou, so it is called Xunyanglou tea cake. Why not? ! "All the people present are on the same channel. From then on, Xunyanglou tea cake became famous and became one of the four treasures of Xunyanglou, which spread all over the streets of Jiujiang and gradually became a famous leisure tea in China. Therefore, the poet Wei was honored as the originator of tea cakes by tea cake craftsmen in later generations.
Nowadays, when it comes to tea cakes, many people who love and like tea will think of making tea cakes, but I want to talk about tea cakes in Jiujiang. However, it is a unique local tea snack. Jiujiang tea cake should be served with tea, like the clouds on Lushan Mountain. Of course, it should be eaten with tea cakes filled with clouds. Little girls like to drink jasmine tea, so they can eat jasmine-flavored tea cakes ... tea and tea cakes complement each other and add color and fragrance. I once asked a tea friend what happiness is. He said with a smile, "Happiness means eating a tea cake after tea, or taking a sip of tea after eating the tea cake. Just drinking tea, no matter how good the tea is, it always feels a bit bleak. Have a tea cake after tea, or have a sip of tea while eating tea cake. "
Jiujiang tea cake is one of the four major cakes in Jiangxi Province, which adopts traditional formula. It uses local tea oil, local wheat flour, black sesame on sloping land and century-old osmanthus as main raw materials. It is developed from traditional technology and modern technology. Su Dongpo, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once praised this poem: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, and there is fullness in the crisp." Its golden yellow is small and thin, and its characteristics are thin and crisp, crisp and sweet, fragrant and beautiful. Because it exudes the fragrance of tea oil, sweet-scented osmanthus and the strange fragrance of soda ash and soda, it is called the fine point of tea and food with four fragrances in one. It is nutritious, easy to digest, suitable for all ages, and easy to change color after long-term consumption. It has become one of the best foods in the tourism market, and Xunyanglou Tea and other brands of tea cakes are excellent enterprises.
On a summer night in 1934, Guling Street in Lushan Mountain was decorated with colorful lanterns, which was very lively. The heavily guarded beauty salon villa is brightly lit, and the wedding and Chiang Kai-shek are here to entertain military and political dignitaries and celebrities from all walks of life attending the inauguration ceremony of Lushan Botanical Garden. There are no delicacies in front of the guests, but the famous Lushan Yunwu Tea and jiujiang tea cake. After the banquet, Mr. Jiang was very satisfied with Song Meiling's unique hospitality and content.
Because on February 19 of that year, Chiang Kai-shek launched the New Life Movement in Nanchang, Jiangxi. He advocated starting with the transformation of people's daily life, such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, and taking "neatness, cleanliness, simplicity, quickness and certainty" as the specific standard to make people's lives militarized, productive and artistic, transform society and revive the country. This tea cake party is the concrete practice of the new life movement.