People will eat Chongyang cake on the Double Ninth Festival. This custom has been passed down from ancient times, mainly because the Double Ninth Festival is also called the Ascending Festival. The word "cake" on the Double Ninth Festival is homophonic with the word "high" for climbing, which symbolizes the meaning of "climbing step by step" and is a symbol of good luck, which is why people eat double ninth cake on the Double Ninth Festival.
The significance of eating Chongyang cake on the Double Ninth Festival mainly has the following meanings.
Step by step, eating Chongyang cake on the Double Ninth Festival originally originated from climbing, and the Double Ninth Festival is also called "Climbing Festival". It is said that climbing mountains can avoid disasters. People who can't climb or don't want to climb eat cakes at home, because the word "Gao" is homophonic with "Gao", which symbolizes the blessing of "man struggles upwards", "step by step" and "everything is high".
Eliminating disasters and avoiding disasters are followed by Chongyang cake and avoiding disasters; Xie, a Ming Dynasty man, wrote in Five Miscellanies: "At dawn on September 9, put a piece of cake on a child's head to welcome good luck and ward off evil spirits."
With the continuous development and changes of the Double Ninth Festival, it also means respecting and loving the elderly, also known as respecting the elderly. Therefore, on this day of the Double Ninth Festival, there is a custom of sending cakes to honor the elderly and give them to relatives and friends, which is called "sending cakes".
3 What is Chongyang Cake? Also called flower cake. It is named after eating it on the Double Ninth Festival. As a traditional food for the Double Ninth Festival, it is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, with glutinous rice flour, japonica rice flour, red beans, sugar and other ingredients as the main ingredients. It has high nutritional value and edible value, and is deeply loved and welcomed by people.
What are the raw materials of Chongyang cake? Rice flour, glutinous rice flour, red bean paste, dried fruits of various colors, red and green preserved fruits, sugar, oil and water.
Exercise:
1. First, mix japonica rice flour, glutinous rice flour, sugar, oil and water together.
2. Knead until it becomes loose powder with moderate humidity.
3. Then, let the stirred powder stand for a period of time, fully absorb water and sieve it into fine powder.
4. Pick up the cake drawer again, spread a clean wet cloth, put half of the cake powder on it, and steam it in the pot for 5 minutes.
5. Then take out the cake drawer and spread a layer of bean paste to smooth it, and then pour in the other half of the cake powder to smooth it.
6. Then sprinkle all kinds of dried fruits and red and green preserved fruits on the surface, and put them into the pot to continue steaming for about 20 minutes.
7. Finally, take out the steamed cake and cut it into diamonds with a knife.