Eight kinds of materials: jujube paste, green plum, raisin, rose, red bean paste, sugar, banana, salt and pepper, etc. are used as stuffing, and oil, water and flour are used as skins, and leather bags are used as stuffing and baked.
Eight forms: oblate, wishful, peach, apricot, kidney, jujube flower, lotus leaf and oval.
Eight kinds of contents: Fuzi cake, Luzi cake, Shouzi cake, Xizi cake, Taishi cake, salt and pepper cake, jujube cake and Saqima. Before liberation, it was the best gift for the son-in-law to see his father-in-law. Now, most of them have been forgotten except that Saqima is still popular.
Wangfujing has eight boxed pieces of mahogany, which are not the traditional Beijing eight pieces.
Variety implication
1. A fortune cookie symbolizing happiness.
2. Taishi cake symbolizing high officials and high salaries.
3. A peach cake symbolizing longevity.
4. There are square happy cakes with double "happy" characters.
5. There are silver ingot cakes symbolizing wealth, and salty and crisp fillings.
6. It's a crispy cake like a book, and it's also a salty and salty filling.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Beijing Eight Pieces