"Bo Cake", also called "Bo Mid-Autumn Cake", is a Mid-Autumn Festival game that Xiamen people have inherited for hundreds of years, and it is also a unique moon cake culture. Simply put, people decided to win 63 prize-winning places, namely, "No.1", "No.2", "Flower Exploration", "Scholar", "Juren" and "Scholar", and won 63 mooncakes of different sizes corresponding to the ranking. It is said that the formation of this custom is related to the national hero Zheng Chenggong.
More than 300 years ago, when Zheng Chenggong stationed troops in Xiamen, he invented the Bo Bing game to relieve and comfort the soldiers' homesickness in the Mid-Autumn Festival and to inspire and boost morale. Later, it gradually spread and improved among the people, and it has become a unique traditional festival custom in southern Fujian. Because of its distinctive local characteristics and cultural value, it has been listed in the national intangible cultural heritage list.
Located in the tourist area of Haicang Bridge on Dongdu Road, "Xiamen Bobbing Folk Garden" is the only folk tourist attraction in China with Bobbing culture as its theme. Walking on the 300-meter-long "Xiucai Road" paved with red carpet in the garden, I saw all kinds of dice decorations on both sides of the road. "Poor scholars also write poems", "Fan Jin's winning the imperial examination is crazy", "Scholars turn over and climb the temple", "Innocent flower exploration is annoying in the name", "Second place came close to winning the championship" and "The most romantic scholar is Lang", which symbolizes that China's traditional imperial examination culture is carved round by round on the rising imperial examination ladder.
In addition to rich literature and history materials and exquisite physical models, the Folk Garden displays the long history, allusions and legends of Bobo cake and its grand development in Xiamen. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, various "Bo Cake" activities will be held. With the ringing of a crisp sound, the tourists who participated in the activity stared nervously at the oversized porcelain bowl in the middle and paid attention to the constantly rotating dice. "The champion inserts golden flowers!" Suddenly, someone shouted excitedly and jumped up. At that time, everyone's eyes widened, laughing and shouting, and applause burst into bursts, making them happy.
Mid-Autumn Festival cake, pay attention to is a happy. With the changes of the times, the content of "Bo Cake" is gradually enriched, and the prizes are no longer limited to moon cakes. Daily necessities, food and even household appliances have become new forms of prizes. Of course, the fun of the cake is not the size of the gift, but the fun of playing games together is what people value, and it is a time for everyone to get together and enjoy it. People from outside Xiamen will be moved by this custom with strong festive colors.
A friend who has worked here for two years said to me, "Many people who have lived in Xiamen are still obsessed with the Mid-Autumn Festival cake after leaving this city." In recent years, the custom of Bobbing has spread across the Taiwan Strait to Taiwan Province and even overseas, which has become the best materialized sustenance for compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to appreciate "Tianya * * * at this time". Mid-autumn moon, how many homesickness worries, Mid-autumn cake, how many reunion expressions.