There are many festivals and customs on August 15, such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, drinking osmanthus wine, solve riddles on the lanterns and dragon dancing. Due to different places, local customs are different. No matter where you go, the only constant protagonist of the Mid-Autumn Festival is of course the moon cake. Nothing, you can't live without it. People give it to relatives and friends as a sacrifice to the moon. Moon cakes are round, symbolizing reunion.
Three days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, impatient friends have already started preparing moon cakes. The earliest traditional moon cakes are divided into several main streams, namely, Beijing-style moon cakes, Yunnan-style moon cakes, Cantonese-style moon cakes, Soviet-style moon cakes and Jin-style moon cakes. Choose from these types, they are real, and the feeling is simple.
Look at the present moon cake market, which is full of beautiful things and various patterns, making consumers flock to it. Obviously it is a traditional festival, but there are many kinds of moon cakes, such as ice cream moon cakes, bullfrog moon cakes, leek moon cakes, crayfish moon cakes and crab moon cakes. There is nothing strange, only more. I advise you to stick to your own principles when buying moon cakes, and meet the following three kinds of moon cakes.
Under special circumstances, some people need to give gifts. Since it is a gift, it is natural to choose beautiful packaging. Many manufacturers have taken a fancy to this. They look at the high-end atmosphere of packaging design and the exquisiteness of the box. They opened it, and there were some horrible biscuits inside. Feelings were sold in packages. But thinking about it is also true. Manufacturers are all focused on packaging, and have no mind to make moon cakes at all. As long as it can increase sales, they also care.
To tell the truth, the traditional festivals have completely changed. People don't start with the taste, but like the gorgeous outer packaging, which is respectable to put it mildly. I have seen this kind of moon cake many times. The size of the cake is very small, just a crust with some stuffing, most of which are lotus seed paste stuffing, bean paste stuffing, konjac stuffing and pineapple stuffing. Sweet and greasy, not delicious at all.
From years of experience, the more beautifully packaged moon cakes taste worse, because people sell packaging. After eating for so many years, don't you understand?
Moon cakes are a kind of holiday food. Naturally, the fresher the better. The taste is mellow, crisp and refreshing, sweet but not greasy. This is the ideal taste of moon cakes. Many mooncake manufacturers, in order to seize the market, start production three months ahead of schedule, because there are links of logistics, transportation, shelving, promotion and promotion. Moon cakes, like most cakes, pay attention to making and eating now, and the newer the shelf life, the better. As long as 12 months.
In the face of interests, businesses can't care so much. They vigorously promote moon cakes, and consumers don't watch them. They think it's cheap. In fact, it has been two months since the production date. If you want to keep soft but not hard, you can only add more additives and preservatives. Can such moon cakes be eaten comfortably?
There is a moon cake processing factory near my home, which mainly sells and wholesales to nearby supermarkets. Usually I buy it on the same day, buy it now and eat it now. Fresh shelf life, simple packaging, good taste, oily but not greasy stuffing, crisp skin and beautiful stuffing, can be eaten in Yue Bai. The role of moon cakes is actually very simple.
If you are ill, take medicine. Why do you have to combine medicine with moon cakes? It is said that it is the result of experts. Can't you have time to study new achievements? As we all know, the outstanding concept of moon cakes is firstly the cultural flavor inherited from history, and secondly the concept of healthy life. You have to play new tricks on moon cakes and invite many online celebrities to bring goods, which has caused a lot of trouble. At that time, there was noise and excitement everywhere.
Chinese medicine moon cakes include Lycium barbarum, rose, Dahongpao, Pu 'er tea, dried tangerine peel and Codonopsis pilosula. I feel bitter at the thought of ingredients. Cleverly using the concept of homology of medicine and food and nourishing herbs, you have made Chinese medicine moon cakes, which can strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, promote digestion and preserve health, because everyone has different ways of identification. As for whether to buy or not, you still have to decide for yourself.
Moon cakes are an ancient traditional food. Its original function is simple and simple sacrifice, symbolizing reunion, offering sacrifices to the moon god, praying for peace and a bumper harvest. The ancestors never imagined that one day, moon cakes would become like this.