Brief introduction of wedding cake

What is a wedding cake? Wedding cake is a traditional food for marriage. Although the present wedding forms are becoming more and more eclectic, it is still a "prescribed action" for many newcomers to buy wedding cakes as gifts.

There are four kinds of wedding cakes: Hong Ling, Bailing, Huangling and Rose Bean Paste. Nowadays, with the changes of years, there are five-kernel stuffing, winter Rong, bean paste, barbecued pork and other umami flavors. Here, let's take a look at the "story" in this wedding cake. I believe it is interesting.

According to legend, during the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei wanted Jingzhou, but he couldn't start. Zhuge Liang advised him and "borrowed" Jingzhou. In order to get Jingzhou back, Sun Quan promised to betroth his sister to Liu Bei as his wife. When Zhuge Liang learned of this letter, he immediately decided to pretend to do it. So I made an agreement with Liu Bei to make a gift for the Dongwu people first, so that the marriage between Liu Bei and Sun Quan's sister would become a household name. So, she intends to tell Wu Guotai about it (Sun Quan's mother) and try to promote the marriage. As soon as Liu said, he said that he should be able to make gifts for him when he got married.

At this time, an old master who has made sweets and snacks for most of his life, after learning about this, showed his talent and made a big wedding cake with dragon and phoenix patterns to symbolize the combination of dragon and phoenix and good luck. This wedding cake not only has the crisp flavor of Jingzhou, but also has the sweet characteristics of Soochow, which is very refreshing. As soon as it was delivered to Jingzhou, it was selected by Zhuge Liang and made into 10000. Zhao Yunling led the troops to all households in Nanxucheng, and made up a ballad: "Liu Bei and Wu Dong came to get married, and the dragon and phoenix wedding cakes were the media evidence." Within a few days, all the people in the city knew the news of Liu Bei's marriage in Wu Dong, and completed their plan of fake play.

Later, in order to reward the master who made the wedding cake, Liu Bei specially built a Longfeng wedding cake shop in his hometown. Zhuge Liang nominated to open a shop and wrote the plaque "Wu Yongfeng". Since then, dragon and phoenix wedding cakes have become the supreme gift for the people in Zhujiahe area to marry their daughters, and there is even a saying that "cakes are gifts, and others are not".