Why give someone a cake when you want to marry your daughter off? Or invite someone to her house for cake? (Guangdong customs)

This is an ancient custom in Guangdong, called sending wedding cakes to women. The relevant statement is as follows:

According to legend, the earliest wedding cakes began in the Three Kingdoms period. At that time, in order to recover Jingzhou, Sun Quan accepted Zhou Yu's "honey trap". Jingzhou was borrowed by Liu Beichang, pretending to marry his sister to Liu Bei, who had just lost his wife, and took Liu Bei to Wu Dong to get married. As soon as Liu Bei entered Wu Dong, he sent soldiers to give cakes everywhere, making Liu Sun's wedding a reality, and the custom of marrying women cakes spread like this.

Today, the custom of sending wedding cakes has become a part of wedding indiscretion: on the one hand, it is a celebration, on the other hand, it is also a good news to announce to relatives and friends that her daughter is getting married. Therefore, there is a set of "theories" from production to sales to packaging to gift giving. The most common wedding cake in Guangdong is also called Su Ling. The "silk crisp" in traditional gift cakes is related to clothing allusions. In the past, the weddings of rich and powerful people used the richness of gift cakes to show their dignity and style. Silk and satin are four luxury fabrics of nobles, of which "silk" is the most expensive. Therefore, "Su Ling" is the first choice for gift cakes, which means wealth.

Silk crisp (the price varies from 1 to 4 yuan) is divided into four types: yellow, white, red and orange: yellow silk is filled with bean paste, which means nobility and arrogance; White silk stuffed with cold sugar or five kernels represents the woman's chastity; HongLing is the most exquisite and expensive, with lotus seed paste as stuffing, which is also useful in winter, implying a festive atmosphere; Shredded oranges are stuffed with bean paste or shredded coconut, which means that the young couple will get married later. Some silk cakes can also be added with egg yolk to show nobility. It is understood that the appearance of four-color silk crisp represents people's sustenance for the new life of the couple, and also expresses their respect for the elderly from another angle. Therefore, authentic Guangzhou people, especially those with old people at home, will certainly do things according to tradition and strive for good luck.