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Beijing's new business card - "Beijing Eight Pieces"
. "Beijing eight pieces" is eight shapes, flavors of different Beijing pastries, the future of domestic and foreign guests to Beijing, in addition to touring the Forbidden City, climb the Great Wall, eat roast duck, but also to bring back the exquisite "Beijing eight pieces" on the way back.
"Beijing eight pieces" is in the palace pastry "big eight pieces" on the basis of research and development. The traditional "big eight pieces" is the representative varieties of Beijing-style pastries, from the Qing Dynasty Palace out of the famous pastries, was originally the royal family in the major festivals and ceremonies to be placed on the table of snacks, but also between them to give each other an indispensable gift, not only the materials used in the elaborate, but also implies a Confucian culture and elegant colors and the noble style of the royal family. Later, from the palace to the people, loved by people from all walks of life, and became the first choice of gifts for the people of the capital for quite a long time.
The traditional "eight pieces" **** divided into the following eight kinds, that is: 1. Symbol of happiness in the word of fortune cake. 2. Symbol of high-ranking officials and wealth of the master cake. 3. Symbol of longevity in the life of the peach cake. 4. There is a square with a double "happy" character of the word "happy" cake. 5. There is a symbol of wealth silver ingot cake, is a pretzel salt and crispy filling. 6. is like a roll of books roll cake, is also a pretzel salt and crispy filling. 7. There is a harmonic "auspicious celebration of surplus" chicken oil cake. 8. there are also jujube flower cake, may be a symbol of young couples to give birth to a child, and to have a man and a woman to flower with the birth of a child. *** eight, respectively, for the blessing, wealth, life, happiness, wealth, Wen, etc., both elegant and image of people's lives at the time of the "eight" happy events to show, which is the "big eight" the origin of the name.
"Small eight" is made into a variety of fruit shapes, there are small peach, commonly known as longevity peach, small apricot, harmonic lucky, happy, small pomegranate, pomegranate, pomegranate, small apple, peace and quiet, small walnut, and beautiful, small persimmons, everything is as good as it can be, small oranges, jujube squares, and so on, each with their own meanings. "Small eight pieces" piece small, lighter than the "big eight pieces", in addition to the wine skin "fine eight pieces", the material is more sophisticated, more delicate.
The newly developed "Beijing eight pieces", antique packaging is very beautiful, product production in the inheritance of the old Beijing folk confectionery on the basis of the fusion of the production process of Western-style confectionery, the selection of nutritious, green, healthy rose bean paste, cinnamon hawthorn, creamy chestnut paste, pretzel sesame seeds, walnuts, date paste, red lotus Wulin, Eight kinds of fillings are used, such as rose bean paste, cinnamon hawthorn, creamy chestnut paste, sesame, walnut date paste, red lotus seed paste, wolfberry bean paste, almond paste, etc., and vegetable oil, honey and other auxiliary materials are used. In the shape of a peach-shaped, meaning longevity, Yuanbao shape means wealth, lantern-shaped means festive, Ruyi shape means auspicious and so on, respectively, on behalf of the "blessing, fortune, longevity, happiness, wealth, wealth, fortune, auspicious, auspicious," eight suitable for today's people's best wishes of the characters, meaning eight good wishes.