Cake has always been a popular food product in China, and Chinese wedding cake is also one of the traditional cakes. According to legend, the custom of sending wedding cakes when getting married originated in the Three Kingdoms period. There was a famous story at that time. At that time, Liu Bei's wife had just held a funeral. Zhou Yu made a proposal to Sun Quan, intending to betroth Sun Quan's sister to Liu Bei, hoping to take Liu Bei as a hostage and then snatch Jingzhou from Liu Bei, but this trick was discovered by Kong Ming.
At this time, a skilled master made a beautiful China wedding cake with dragon and phoenix patterns on it, symbolizing the combination of dragon and phoenix and good luck. The ancestor of this Chinese wedding cake has both the crisp flavor of Jingzhou and the sweet characteristics of Soochow.
Zhuge Liang ordered the production of 10000 pieces, which were distributed to all households and soldiers of Sun Quan, and sang a ballad: "Liu Bei and Wu Dong came to get married, and the dragon and phoenix wedding cakes were the media evidence." At the same time, someone was asked to fly a kite, and a large piece of cloth was hung on the kite, which read "Sun Liu's surname is married", which made Wu Dong's marriage a household name and ruined Sun Quan's reputation, and the story became famous. This interesting story of the Three Kingdoms is also the origin of Chinese wedding cake custom. I didn't expect Zhuge Liang to be the inventor of China wedding cake!
From then on, no matter men or women, whenever there is a wedding to be held, they are eager to follow Zhuge Liang's action of sending cakes and tell everyone the good news with China's wedding cake, which is a traditional gift for engagement. In modern society, sending wedding cakes is no longer a political means, but an item to share the joy of marriage!
Up to now, the Chinese wedding cake has quietly undergone great changes, blending many different dim sum elements, making the wedding cake chosen by new people have more different changes! Because it is a good marriage, it also represents many different meanings in the taste of Chinese wedding cake!
China wedding cake tastes like 1. Sesame-wishing the child not to move is a metaphor for loyalty.
Chinese wedding cake taste II. Pineapple-Pineapple Taiwanese is pronounced "Wanglai", which symbolizes the meaning of future generations.
Chinese wedding cake taste 3. Red beans-regarded as "acacia beans" since ancient times, symbolizing the love of acacia with red beans. Used in wedding cakes, it is more affectionate.
Chinese wedding cake tastes 4. Crispy-symbolizes the good relationship between husband and wife, which makes people feel inseparable.
(Excerpt from: vegetarian, vegetarian wedding cake discussion area)
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