What do Cantonese people mean by cake printing?

Moon cake mold is called cake printing in Guangzhou. Without cake printing, there would be no Cantonese moon cakes.

Since the Qing Dynasty, there have been many handicrafts produced and sold in Daxin Road, Tiancheng Road, Renmin South Road and Ivory Street, and the cake printing shops are naturally very prosperous. It was opened here in Tongzhi period, and it is a century-old shop. Since then, the work of carving wooden cake molds by hand has never stopped. It continues to the rest generation, which is already the sixth generation.

In the middle of last century, wooden cake molds were still in the golden age, and Mid-Autumn moon cake molds were in bulk; There are also colored cakes, such as almond cakes, Buddha cakes, old lady cakes, blind cakes, chicken cakes, pig cakes, money cakes, fried rice cakes and so on, with different shapes and specifications.

In the 1980s, handmade wooden cake printing declined rapidly. By the 1990 s, only four companies were left to support it. The old master who had a small workshop in Zhuangyuanfang last year has disappeared this year. The last cake shop in Guangzhou has only Master Yu.

The Cantonese proverb "a cake seal" means that two people have the same characteristics (appearance, personality, etc. ), and they are all printed by a cake printer.