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Wuren moon cake

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Wuren moon cake is one of the traditional Chinese cakes. There are different ways to make Wuren moon c

Is it Wuren moon cake or Wuren moon cake?

Wuren moon cake

Related introduction:

Wuren moon cake is one of the traditional Chinese cakes. There are different ways to make Wuren moon c

Is it Wuren moon cake or Wuren moon cake?

Wuren moon cake

Related introduction:

Wuren moon cake is one of the traditional Chinese cakes. There are different ways to make Wuren moon cakes all over the country, which is the most famous of all kinds of moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival.

Five-kernel moon cake refers to adding five kinds of nuts, such as almond, peach kernel, olive kernel, sesame kernel and melon seed kernel, so it is five-kernel moon cake, not five-kernel moon cake.

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Five kernels are a kind of stuffing for traditional Chinese cakes (such as moon cakes). It is made of walnut kernel, almond, peanut kernel, melon seed kernel and sesame by frying, peeling, crushing and finally adding white sugar.

In ancient China, there were five moral principles of "benevolence, courtesy, wisdom and faith", and "five benevolence" was just a homonym.

In the Ming Dynasty, eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival gradually spread among the people.

At that time, ingenious bakers printed the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon's fairy tales on moon cakes as food art drawings, making moon cakes a necessary food for Mid-Autumn Festival.

In the court, moon cakes have also become a common food.

In the Qing Dynasty, eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival has become a common custom, and the production skills are getting higher and higher.

Yuan Mei of the Qing Dynasty introduced in "Suiyuan Food List": "Crispy moon cakes are filled with pine nuts, walnuts, melon seeds, rock sugar and lard, which are not sweet or fragrant, soft or greasy, which is unusual."

Moon cakes in Beijing were first made by Qianmen Zhimeizhai.

Across the country, five flavor series of Beijing, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Guangzhou and Chaozhou have been formed, and many local folk customs have also appeared around the Mid-Autumn Festival in Yue Bai and during the period of enjoying the moon.