Bobbing (Postscript Cake) originated in Tongan County, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province (now Xiamen, Fujian Province), and was invented by Zheng Chenggong, which is a unique traditional folk activity in southern Fujian.
Bo cake is a popular entertainment activity during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the participants' prizes are determined by the combination of six dice throwing results. The traditional prizes are moon cakes of different sizes, * * * for a while, with the number one scholar 1 piece, two in the hall, four in three reds, eight in four, two in one lift 16, and 32 in one show.
20 19 1 1 month, the List of National Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative Projects Protection Units was published, and the Mid-Autumn Folk Culture Research Association was awarded the qualification of the Mid-Autumn Bobbing Project Protection Unit.
Mid-Autumn Festival cake, which originated in Xiamen, Fujian Province, was invented by Zheng Chenggong when he was stationed in the army. It is a unique traditional folk activity in southern Fujian, which is an extension of cake culture. Bo cake is a popular entertainment activity during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the participants' prizes are determined by the combination of six dice throwing results.
The traditional prizes are moon cakes of different sizes, * * * for a while, with the number one scholar 1 piece, two in the hall, four in three reds, eight in four, two in one lift 16, and 32 in one show. According to legend, this game can predict people's luck in the next year.
In southern Fujian, Mid-Autumn Festival cake gambling has also become a commercial activity and mass game. Fujian People's Publishing House 1985 published "Fujian Scenery", which recorded that in southern Fujian, the Mid-Autumn Festival has the custom of "grabbing cakes".
In some urban and rural areas in central and eastern Taiwan Province, as well as kinmen county, an outlying island in Taiwan Province, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival Bo Zhuang Yuan Cake is also popular. In Jinmen, Jincheng Wucuo Community Development Association celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival community gala every year, and there is a Bo Zhuang Yuan Cake Competition.