"Beijing Eight Pieces" include traditional Big Eight Pieces and puff pastry Beijing Eight Pieces.

The traditional Jingba cakes are mainly divided into: blessing cakes, which symbolize happiness; Taishi cakes, which symbolize high officials and good fortune; longevity peach cakes, which symbolize longevity; happy cakes, which are square with double happiness. The cake symbolizes happiness; the silver cake symbolizes wealth; the roll cake looks like a book and symbolizes wisdom; the chicken oil cake is homophonic for "more than auspicious celebrations", symbolizing auspiciousness; the jujube cake symbolizes a young couple. Give birth to a son early.

In short, the eight items in Beijing represent blessing, wealth, longevity, happiness, wealth, culture, etc. They are the eight favorite things in life, and the eight items in Beijing embody them elegantly and vividly. .

The snacks of Supi Jingba Piece are layered and layered, making them even more crispy in the mouth. The eight different meanings also add joy to the Chinese New Year. The biggest feature of the puff pastry Jingba piece is that its outer skin is layered with layers of crispy dough, and the texture is relatively crispy.

The main eight items of puff pastry Beijing include: Fortune cake, which tastes like rose bean paste and is sweet. It also symbolizes happiness and contentment. The "Lu" cake tastes like sweet-scented osmanthus and hawthorn. Like the Taishi cake, it symbolizes fame, fortune and wealth. The birthday cake, which tastes like butter chestnut, is sweet and soft, symbolizing longevity and longevity. Jubilee cakes, flavored with salt, pepper and black sesame, represent the coming of happy events.

The bergamot cake has a relatively novel taste, tropical pineapple flavor, with a delicate texture and the implication of the good fruit of Buddha's connection. Ruyi Crisp is made with rich ingredients, including lotus seeds, walnut kernels, melon kernels, sesame seeds, pine nuts, and almonds, which means everything goes well. The taste of Zaohua Crisp is mainly a mixture of walnut kernels and jujubes, which means giving birth to a child early. Xiangyun Crisp, which tastes like wolfberry and white kidney beans, represents good luck and wealth.

The origin of Jingbajiu

"Jingbajia", also called "Big Eight", are eight kinds of Beijing-style pastries with different shapes and flavors. In the future, when domestic and foreign guests travel to Beijing, in addition to visiting the Forbidden City, climbing the Great Wall, and eating roast duck, they can also take back the exquisite "Eight Things from Beijing" when they return.

"Jingbajiao" was developed on the basis of the palace pastries "Dabajiao". The traditional "Dabajiao" is a representative variety of Beijing-style pastries. The famous pastries passed down from the palace. Loved by people from all walks of life, it has become the first choice gift for people in the capital for a long time.

In fact, these pastries "produced by Yushan" in Beijing are almost all "imitation goods" from the public in terms of origin. Before Emperor Muzong of the Ming Dynasty, he often sent people to East Chang'an Street to buy snacks. After he became emperor, he still missed the delicious food on the street. The dessert shop knew the emperor's wishes well, so they went undercover in those pastry shops, secretly learned the making methods, spent a lot of money to purchase raw materials, and copied some.

The emperor could taste the origin of each dish very professionally, and proudly told the imperial chefs that these "high-priced" snacks could be bought on the street for 5 cents.

The capital of the Ming Dynasty was moved from Nanjing to Beijing, and Jiangnan dim sum naturally flowed into the capital. After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, Manchu pastries such as Saqima were introduced. Different flavors, different varieties, and different preparation methods have influenced each other over hundreds of years, forming the unique "Beijing-style dim sum". After the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the "Beijing Eight Cases" also evolved into many versions with the times.