The Mid-Autumn Festival, first of all we can from the literal sense, to investigate its origin, the lunar August 15th night, when a bright moon hanging in the sky, people looking at the jade plate like the moon, will naturally think of family reunion, so it is also known as reunion Festival. And the Mid-Autumn Festival two words, the earliest recorded in the "ritual of Zhou" : "in the spring day, the drum percussiv advocate intemational to meet the heat; In the autumn night, the cold also like clouds." The traditional calendar to its interpretation: the lunar calendar in the middle of the autumn, called Zhongqiu, and August 15 in the middle of the autumn, so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival".

Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. We all know to eat moon cakes on this festival. How many kinds of moon cakes do you know? Today we will popularize four kinds of moon cakes:

Beijing type moon cake

The representative mooncake in the north, originated in Beijing and Tianjin, is characterized by its sweetness and moderate skin-to-filling ratio. The skin-to-filling ratio is usually 2:3. The Jing-style mooncake is a continuation of the palace mooncake style, which is more complicated than other varieties of mooncakes.

Beijing style mooncakes are mixed with sugar. The fillings are mostly rock sugar, green red silk (pickled with pomelo and orange peel and dyed red and green), walnut kernel, melon kernel and cooked flour, with a large amount of sesame oil. The skin is thin and soft, the taste is sweet, and the texture is crisp and loose.

Cantonese moon cakes

The representative moon cake of south China, and the largest kind of moon cake at present, originated in Guangdong and its surrounding areas. Its material selection and production techniques are very delicate, its characteristics are thin soft skin, beautiful shape, fine patterns, clear patterns.

The name of the Cantonese mooncake is generally based on the main ingredients of the cake filling, such as five nuts, golden leg, lotus seed paste, bean paste, bean paste, date paste, coconut paste, etc. Its raw materials are very wide, such as egg yolk, preserved egg, sausage, char siu, roast duck, mushroom and so on can be used as raw materials, and prepared into a large number of varieties.

French mooncakes

French mooncakes are non-traditional mooncakes. Non-traditional mooncakes are generally low in oil and sugar and pay attention to the nutrition of food ingredients and innovation in the production process.

Not only in the appearance of novelty, the pursuit of novel and unique, but also in the taste of continuous innovation, cheese, chocolate, hazelnut, strawberry, blueberry, cranberry, cherry, ice cream and other flavors, taste mellow, delicious, soft and delicate.

Chao mooncakes

Also known as the cake, is a kind of pastry food, is the Guangdong Chaoshan Han snack, China's four major schools of moon cake The main characteristics of the common Chao-style moon cake (round) are thin filling with crisp skin, not fat tongue and sweet mouth. According to the type of filling, it can be divided into mung bean, black bean, crystal, purple taro and so on, and the core includes egg yolk or seafood.

The wife cake is the one with the least materials and the simplest workmanship. There is also a square tide mooncake called sufu cake, which is savory and salty with great characteristics. There is also a simple cake called husband cake corresponding to wife cake.

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I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival, reunion and happiness!