Guixi wick cake is an intangible cultural heritage of Jiangxi Province.

Guixi wick cake, which is well-known at home and abroad, has a history of more than 800 years. It is one of the four famous pastries in Jiangxi. It has been rated as a provincial excellent product for consecutive years

Lamp wick cake is a traditional food loved by people in Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Shanghai and Anhui Province. It is produced in Guixi, especially Longxingpu "Tieguai Li" wick cake with the best quality. good. Guixi wick cake uses local pure natural high-quality glutinous rice as the main raw material. It uses spring water ten miles below Yuntai Mountain. After washing the rice, drying it naturally, it is stir-fried with green oil and sand. It is mixed with white sand syrup and more than 30 kinds of precious Chinese medicinal materials. , grinding, hammering, pressing, etc. It is made by hand. The craftsmanship is very meticulous and it is a natural green food. Its color is white and crystal clear, its taste is sweet and delicious, soft and smooth, and you will never tire of eating it. It has always been a good product for people to eat during festivals or to entertain and give gifts to relatives and friends. Guixi wick cake has exquisite craftsmanship, a long history and a long history, forming a unique local flavor. Wick cake has been passed down in Guixi for more than 300 years, forming traditional cake making techniques and unique folk customs, especially in marriage ceremonies, birthday celebrations, and New Year festivals. Its performance also embodies "blessings, success, and good luck." In this way, a unique custom of tasting and giving cakes was formed.

Guixi wick cake originated in the late Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 300 years. It is a delicacy. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, they were listed as tributes to the imperial palace, and people from the imperial kitchen would supervise the production and deliver them to the palace. When Emperor Qianlong traveled to the south of the Yangtze River in the Qing Dynasty, he tasted Guixi wick cake and praised it: "This is the only one that is famous in Beijing Province." From this, wick cake became famous all over the world. In the 1990s, Guixi wick cake was rated as one of the four famous snacks in Jiangxi.

According to legend, Xue Yinglong, a businessman from Fuzhou in the late Ming Dynasty, liked the prosperous trade in Guixi. He settled in Guixi with his family, started business and opened a small shop selling rushes. Later, he started a cake business and founded a handmade workshop. One day, I had a sudden idea and cut the original "Yun Pian Cake" into thin strips. It was named "Lamp Wick Cake" because it resembled a lamp wick. Xue Yinglong's business philosophy is "Sincerity values ????people's integrity, business thrives, and genuine goods at reasonable prices make shops prosper." He attracted one of the Eight Immortals of Longhu Mountain - "Tieguai Li" to stay and help him. "Tieguai Li" slept on the chopping board of the workshop and left the secret recipe the next day. From then on, the wick cake made by "Longxingpu" on the chopping board was so fragrant that he couldn't get enough of it. It became famous all over the world and the fragrance spread all over the world. Guixi Long This is where Xingpu’s “Tieguai Li” wick cake comes from.

In the first year of Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty (AD 1909), Guixi had names such as Fan Fuji, Fan Dayuan, Fan Fuyuan and Fan Kangdian engaged in the production of wick cake food. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the Fan family spent a lot of money to acquire the "Longxingpu" wick cake workshop and expand its production scale. Guixi wick cakes expanded production and development. It is said that Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty tasted the wick cake when he visited the south of the Yangtze River and praised: "This is the only one that is famous in Beijing Province."

After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Guixi’s traditional wick cake making techniques have made new developments. From 1979 to now, more than 20 million yuan has been invested in further research, project protection and development, and production expansion of this traditional handmade snack. , excavation, sorting, rescue of lost crafts and personnel training. In 2008, Guixi Wick Cake won the title of Green Product from the China Green Food Development Center. Since 1999, it has been awarded the title of Outstanding Quality Food at the Shanghai Food Expo, Leading Enterprise of Provincial Agricultural Industrialization, and Jiangxi Famous Brand.

Guixi lampwick cakes are produced by hand with many processes and exquisite craftsmanship. They are very particular, including washing, frying, steaming, grinding, mixing, pressing, constant temperature, hammering, opening and cutting, etc.

Wash the rice: Generally use a sieve basket and rinse the rice with warm boiled water above 20℃ to make the rice white and shiny, and then put it into a dough basket to dry naturally.

Fried rice: Use high-quality tea oil and fine sand, stir-fry repeatedly in a large iron pot with a special camphor wood spatula, so that the rice bursts and takes the shape of popcorn. Its color is white and its fragrance is fragrant.

Powder grinding: The cake powder is ground using a bluestone farmhouse grinder, which is manually ground 2-3 times to form fine powder, and then filtered into starch.

Steamed rice noodle: Steamed rice noodle with wick cake pays attention to the word "pure". The steamed rice noodle needs to be strong. It uses camphor wood pottery used by farmers. It can be eaten after steaming for 1-2 hours, but it cannot be made into cake. It must be stored in an underground cave for 15-30 days, and then the cake powder is taken out and the ingredients are dissolved to make the cake powder soft.

Ingredients: The ingredients of the wick cake are made from medicinal materials that are not produced in the local area and are not used at the time. They are made according to the ratio, boiled with sugar, and combined with more than 30 precious Chinese herbal medicines.

The traditional craftsmanship of Guixi wick cakes has always been based on sincerity, trust and morality, and the tradition has been spread all over the world. You can still see such a couplet "People are sincere" in the old town of Longxingpu in Guixi's old town. Good business thrives when loans are made at genuine prices." At present, it mainly produces more than 30 varieties of wick cakes, including traditional "cloud cakes", "exquisite gift cakes", "health-care cakes" and "fruit-shaped cakes".