"Yellow rice cake, sticky and sticky, red kidney beans, sprinkled on it. Gege's engagement party was held in front of me with both hands. Eating red beans makes you feel at ease, and then eating rice cakes makes you feel more sticky. The more sticky, the more I feel that my heart is not scattered, and my heart is sticky. " This is a Manchu love song, in which the theme of sticky cake is used to express the love between young men and women, and this sticky cake is a typical Manchu cake. Manchu pastry is a general term for Manchu-style pastry food, and the word "Manchu" in the so-called "Manchu Chinese food" refers to Manchu pastry. Manchu cakes are mostly made of sticky rice flour, and the production process is mainly baking, baking, steaming and branding, and seasoning with honey. Its characteristics are soft and sweet, crisp and sweet. Manchu people have always liked sticky food, because sticky food can resist hunger and is convenient for exploration and hunting as dry food. Manchu ancestors usually ate two meals a day. In the morning, the sun rises, and they go hunting after breakfast, but at night, no matter how late, they will not come back, which makes Manchu people have special feelings for Bobo.

As a traditional food of Manchu people, Manchu cakes are still preserved in many Manchu inhabited areas, and some of them are still very popular all over the country, especially "Saqima", which is widely known and loved all over the country, is also a kind of Manchu cakes. Shaqima is a transliteration of Manchu, which translates into Chinese as "sugar bag". The production method of ancient Shaqima is recorded in Yanjing Years: "Shaqima is bread of Manchuria, made of white flour mixed with rock sugar and cream. It is shaped like glutinous rice, baked in an oven with ash-free wood, and then made into a square, which is sweet and delicious and edible. " In addition, fruit materials will be added. Before Manchu entered the customs, there was a wild berry in Manchuria, which looked like dog milk and was the main fruit material of Shaqima at that time. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the fruit materials were gradually replaced by raisins, melon seeds and hawthorn. Shaqima, as a popular snack in Qing Dynasty, is often used as a sacrifice for temples and sacrifices.

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After Manchu entered the customs in Qing Dynasty, Bobo was also brought to the court by Manchu. In the Qing palace, there are emperors and queens. Manchurian cakes are often made from the palace and given to concubines. This form is called "reward gram food". "SmithKline" is Manchu, which means rewards and gifts. In addition, if festivals and sacrificial activities are held in the palace, a large number of cakes should be prepared as sacrifices. In each of the three mausoleums outside Shanhaiguan, there are also more than a dozen women who specialize in eating spicy food. They specialize in making cakes during big sacrifices. Besides, the emperor had to leave the palace without a cake. Emperor Kangxi visited Shengjing Mausoleum in the East for the first time and brought a "cake chef" from the capital. In the archives of the Qing Dynasty "Black Map Archives" collected by Liaoning Provincial Archives, there is a record that the Crown Prince carried a large number of treasures with him during the Kangxi period. In addition, the emperor also gave cakes as rewards to soldiers who made meritorious military service, which shows the lofty position of Manchu cakes in the hearts of Manchu people.