Bo Cake (Postscript Cake) originated in Gulangyu Island, Xiamen, Fujian Province, and began in the early Qing Dynasty. It is a unique moon cake culture and a heritage of history by Minnan people. According to legend, the Mid-Autumn Festival Bobbing was invented by Zheng Chenggong when he stationed troops in Gulangyu to relieve the soldiers' love for Mid-Autumn Festival and inspire their morale.

Mid-Autumn Festival cake culture is very popular in southern Fujian. In the past, the Mid-Autumn Festival Bo cake was generally played in a traditional way. For example, prizes were usually made with social cakes. Bobbing is purely for fun. Moreover, in terms of time, local residents don't play before the first day of the eighth lunar month. The normal time for eating cakes is from the first day of the eighth lunar month to the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, which is the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Bo cake started as a game for literati, and later it became popular in industrial and commercial guilds and shops. In order to avoid the suspicion of "gambling" in dice rolling, some merchants first offer Mid-Autumn Festival cakes to the land of the God of Wealth, and then "Buxin Cup" plays with cakes. The biggest Mid-Autumn Festival cake is called "the glans" (that is, "the head of the turtle"), which means "Bo" comes first. Until the late 194s and early 195s, there were still such activities.

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Rules of Bo Cake

Each cake meeting will be set with 1 champion, 2 duets, 4 three reds, 8 fours, 16 two lifts and 32 one show. There are 63 cakes in the plenary session, including the number of 79613, which is an auspicious number. The country is 9981, which is the number used by emperors, and 8972, which is the number of chitose, while Zheng Chenggong sealed King Yanping, so he used the number of 63. There are 63 cakes of different sizes, representing champion, second place, flower exploration, Jinshi, juren and scholar respectively. Throw six dice in a big porcelain bowl.

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