Bazhen cake is divided into "eight treasures for men" and "eight treasures for women". The eight-treasure cake used by Cixi is "female eight treasures", which was changed from "male eight treasures" during the Qianlong period.

"Men's eight-treasure cake" is an original eight-treasure cake, which can be divided into two types: invigorating spleen, eliminating food stagnation and invigorating vitality.

As we all know, Gan Long is a very knowledgeable person, and he pays attention to health preservation. This Bazhen cake is actually a small medicine for daily maintenance. The basic prescription is: Poria cocos, white lentils, lotus seed meat, coix seed, yam and Euryale euryales.

The other two medicinal materials of Bazhen cake that Qianlong ate when he was young were hawthorn and malt, with the purpose of promoting digestion and resolving stagnation. When you are old, in order to keep fit, you should use ginseng and codonopsis pilosula instead of these two flavors.