Jiujiang, 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, and is close to the lake by the river. It is rich in products and has natural attractions such as the Yangtze River, Poyang Lake and Lushan Mountain, so it also gathers food cultures from all over the country. Among them, jiujiang tea cake is a famous snack of Han nationality in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province.
jiujiang tea cake, which originated in the Tang Dynasty, is one of the four major cakes in Jiangxi Province, and was developed by using traditional techniques and modern technologies. Su Dongpo, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once praised his poems: a small cake is like chewing the moon, with crispness and satiety in it. Its color is golden, small and fine, thin and crisp, crisp and sweet, fragrant and beautiful. Because it exudes the fragrance of tea oil, the fragrance of osmanthus fragrans 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 rich in nutrition, easy to digest, suitable for all ages, and easy to change color after eating for a long time, and has become one of the best foods in the tourism market.
Wei Yingwu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a famous sentence when he lived in Xunyang Building. Here, Wei Yingwu also had an indissoluble bond with the tea cakes in Xunyang Building. According to legend, it was a good time for Wei Yingwu to have a party with friends on Xunyang Tower. The sun was setting and the breeze was blowing gently. However, when he saw the sparkling Yangtze River, the fishing boats were returning home, Lushan Mountain was faintly discernible, and the rhyme of "Moonlit Night on a Spring River" was lingering. The poet was so happy that he said to the waiter, "Make a pot of fine cloud tea and prepare some special snacks."
in a moment, the waiter brought a pot of fragrant tea and a plate of cookies. However, when the poet saw that the small cake was like Weiqi, he took one and hit it lightly, and he felt that the skin was crisp and the filling was crisp. After eating it, he left a fragrance on his teeth and cheeks. He quickly asked the waiter, What is the name of this cake? The waiter replied, "This cake is specially made by a pastry chef named Lu in Xunyang Building, and it has no name for the time being." Wei Yingwu laughed and said, "This cake is the cake to accompany tea, so it's called tea cake. It's the exclusive property of Xunyanglou, so it's called Xunyanglou tea cake. Why not? ！” All the people present are in the same channel. Since then, Xunyanglou tea cake has become famous, and it has become one of the four treasures of Xunyanglou, spreading all over the streets of Jiujiang, and gradually becoming a famous leisure refreshment in China. Therefore, the poet Wei Yingwu was regarded as the ancestor of tea cake by tea cake craftsmen in later generations.
nowadays, when it comes to tea cakes, many people who love tea and like tea will think of making cakes of tea, 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, such as Lushan cloud. Of course, it should be served with tea cakes filled with clouds. Little girls like to drink jasmine tea, so they can eat tea cakes with jasmine flavor ... 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 having a sip of tea after eating the tea cake. Just drinking tea, no matter how good it is, always feels a little bleak. Eat a tea cake after tea, or have a sip of tea while eating the cake. "
jiujiang tea cake is one of the four major cakes in Jiangxi province, which adopts traditional recipes. It uses local tea oil, local wheat flour, black sesame on sloping land and century-old osmanthus as main raw materials. It is developed by traditional technology and modern technology. Su Dongpo, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once praised the poem: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crispness and satiety in them. "Its golden color is small and fine, and it is characterized by thin and crisp, crisp and sweet, fragrant and beautiful. Because it exudes the fragrance of tea oil, the fragrance of osmanthus fragrans 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 rich in nutrition, easy to digest, suitable for all ages, and easy to change color after eating for a long time. 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, the Guling Street in Lushan Mountain was decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations. The heavily guarded beauty house Villa is brightly lit, and weddings 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 19th 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, simplicity, rapidity and certainty" as the specific standards, so as to make people's life militarized, productive and artistic, transform society and revive the country. This tea and cake party is the concrete practice of the New Life Movement.