Liu Niang cake can be given to the mother-in-law.

You can give your mother and mother-in-law a cake. In our country, there is a saying that "in a leap year, you can give your mother a cake", which is believed to be detrimental to your mother's health in a leap year. In some places where there are daughters, there is a saying to give the mother a flower cake on a leap year, which is called "Liuniang Gao", which means that the mother hopes to live a long and healthy life and stay with her daughter forever. This is also called "leap month cake", which is actually a flower cake.

In ancient times, people in order to please their mothers, do the leap month cake, are to "make a pattern" in the flower cake, some pinch a small fish, some pinch a flower. Because there are thirteen months in a leap year, there must be thirteen red dates around the cake. In China's Yellow River, Huaihe River, Yangtze River Basin in many places have leap month to send mother "stay mother cake" custom, this custom in the first rise with a certain color of faith.

The Legend of the Leuniang Cake

Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a girl in Songshan Mountain who was very filial. In a leap month year, there was a famine in the Central Plains. The girl thought of her parents usually not enough to eat, this year an extra month, I do not know what kind of starvation, married out of town, she rushed to make their own family millet into flower cake to go home to visit their parents, the story spread, so there is a leap month every time the daughter married to give her parents to send the flower cake said.

With the development of time, now the flower cake is no longer as single as in the past, but will be a variety of colorful vegetables and fruits juice and flour, made out of the colorful flower cake, the shape is also a variety of. The form of liuniangcao is also not limited to flower cake, some people use cake instead of flower cake for convenience.