dali man usually eats crescent-shaped sesame seed cakes with clear mutton soup. That is to say, you have to eat mutton. Half a baked wheat cake, and half a baked wheat cake with layers, is empty in the middle, but it is very suitable for eating with meat. Therefore, some people say that dali man was smart enough to invent this crescent-shaped baked wheat cake just to eat this clear soup mutton. "Dali County Records" affirmed this possibility, saying: "Crescent baked wheat cake is gradually formed because of people's need to eat mutton in a basin. In the past, when eating mutton, sesame cakes were the staple food. The earlier baked wheat cake was round, and it was necessary to break the baked wheat cake in half to sandwich the meat, which was uneven and inconvenient. In life practice, people gradually realize that it is better to cut the baked wheat cake in half than to eat it in half, which is convenient and beautiful, and the baked wheat cake is changed from round to semi-round. Because it looks like a crescent moon, it is named' crescent moon cake'. " This may be a more realistic explanation of the causes of crescent moon baked wheat cake, and it is also a compliment to the hardworking and kind people in Dali.