There are osmanthus mooncakes, dried plum mooncakes, five kernel, bean paste, rose, lotus seed paste, rock sugar, white fruit, meat floss, black sesame, ham mooncakes, egg yolk mooncakes and so on.
By origin, there are a hundred: Beijing-style mooncakes, Cantonese mooncakes, Dian-style mooncakes, Chao-style mooncakes, Soviet-style mooncakes, Taiwanese mooncakes, Hong Kong-style mooncakes, Hui-style mooncakes, Qu-style mooncakes, Qin-style mooncakes, Jin-style mooncakes, and even Japanese, etc.; as far as the taste is concerned, there is a sweet, salty, savory, sweet and spicy;
By the skin of the cake, there is a syrupy skin, mixed sugar, crispy, creamy, etc.; and from the modeling and There is a difference between glossy and lace.
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History:
Mooncakes were the ancient mid-autumn offerings to worship the moon god, and along the line,
the custom of eating mooncakes at mid-autumn was formed The mooncake has a long history in China. Mooncakes have a long history in China. According to historical records, as early as the Yin and Zhou periods, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have a commemorative master Wenzhong's thin side of the heart of the thick "master cake", which is the "ancestor" of China's moon cakes.
It is said to have originated in the Tang Dynasty. Luo in the anecdotes" has recorded: the Mid-Autumn Festival, the new scholar Qujiang Banquet, Tang Xizong people sent moon cakes to reward the scholar.
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