Many people say that Wuren moon cakes are not delicious. What is the stuffing of Wuren moon cake made of?

Speaking of Mid-Autumn Festival, besides thinking about family reunion, the traditional holiday food that everyone will definitely eat is moon cakes. Speaking of moon cakes, you have to mention Wuren moon cakes! Even if all kinds of new moon cakes come out, it is hard to erase people's memory of Wuren moon cake, which is the Mid-Autumn Festival memory of countless people. However, today's Wuren moon cakes are the "darkest" and least popular.

Wuren moon cake, when we open the long scroll of history, we will find that Wuren moon cake was once the "overlord" of the moon cake industry, and no moon cake can match it! Wuren moon cake is the oldest, most famous and highest status moon cake. Even today, when it comes to moon cakes, it will definitely be associated with Wuren moon cakes. But you know what? The earliest five-kernel moon cakes were called "Hu cakes" and the fillings were only "two kernels".

The predecessor of Wuren moon cake is "Hu cake". Because it was introduced into the Central Plains from the Western Region, it was named "Hu Bing". At that time, there were only two kinds of Hu cakes: walnut kernel and sesame kernel. Because Tang Xuanzong likes to eat Hu cakes, this day happens to be the full moon of Mid-Autumn Festival, so he gave Hu cakes a nickname called "moon cakes". In this way, Tang Xuanzong was regarded as the "noble" of moon cakes, and then moon cakes were designated as the traditional food of Mid-Autumn Festival.

In order to enrich the taste of moon cakes, efforts are made in the stuffing of "benevolence". Walnut kernel, sesame kernel, melon seed kernel, almond kernel and olive kernel are the fillings of Wuren moon cake. At that time, the "five benevolence" implied five kinds of benevolence: loyalty, filial piety, faithfulness, sincerity and courage. Because of this, the status of Wuren moon cake has gradually reached its peak, and it has an unshakable position in the moon cake industry. In the past, it was not easy for ordinary people to eat Wuren moon cakes. It was not until the Mid-Autumn Festival that they could share the hard-won Wuren moon cakes with their families.

Nowadays, Wuren moon cakes have lost their popularity, and they have been replaced by endless network celebrity moon cakes. However, we have to admit that Wuren moon cakes are the inheritance of our traditional culture in China and represent the ingenuity of the older generation.