What is Chongyang cake? Introduction of Chongyang cake

1, Chongyang cake, also known as "flower cake", is a traditional seasonal food, which is named after it is eaten on the Double Ninth Festival. Common in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, it is not very popular all over the country. In order to eat beautifully, people make the Chongyang cake colorful and sprinkle some sweet-scented osmanthus on the cake surface, so it is also called Osmanthus Jelly.

2. Chongyang cake, named after eating it on the Double Ninth Festival, is a traditional seasonal food on the Double Ninth Festival. The Double Ninth Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the harvest sacrifice in ancient autumn and season. According to Lu's Chunqiu Ji, when the crops were harvested in September, the ancients offered sacrifices to the Emperor and ancestors to thank them for their kindness. In the development and evolution of history, the Double Ninth Festival has integrated many kinds of folk customs and also carried rich cultural connotations.

There are many folk activities in the Double Ninth Festival with rich cultural connotations. In the thousands of years of baptism, the Double Ninth Festival also spawned activities such as climbing high and overlooking, watching chrysanthemums, giving banquets to respect the elderly, eating double ninth cake and drinking chrysanthemum wine. "Different winds in ten miles, different customs in a hundred miles". The Double Ninth Festival has lasted for thousands of years, and the customs and habits of different places are also different.