<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the Nine Emperors of the Wind and Clouds</h1>
Text/Figure Grandpa Mango Jun
On the north bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Shashi, sits under the majestic Jingjiang Embankment.
During the flood season, the "DongfangHong" steamship slowly passes by the river surface of Shashi, and in the distance, the giant ship is still swimming on the roof of Dewa. The riverbed has been layered year by year in the years that have passed, and the longevity pagoda that stands on the embankment of the river has five towers sunk deep into the embankment.
The main road of Shashi is always oriented from east to west, and it is comparable to the big river flowing in the east. Leave the north-south branch line to those strange streets and alleys. Shashi's judgment of the direction of the trunk road never "says east and west", and "high head and bottom" are well-known directions for women and children. If you listen to the doubts and look away, you can determine that you are not from Shashi, at least your birthplace is not in Shashi.
These are all things of the past.
Time, backwards forty years ago, when Shashi, Beijing Road bungalows and three-storey buildings were mixed, and the street surface was uneven. Zhongshan Road was the bustling city of that year. Founded in 1932, Zhongshan Road is a thriving commercial destination in Shashi. The north and south of the merchant houses in the land are innumerable, and the alleys are difficult to count. The houses are lined up one after another, extending to the Yangtze River embankment. The so-called flow of people is like this.
After the withering of Zhongshan Road, Beijing Road became the land of Shashi Commercial Circle. At night, thousands of lights and neon flashes. Street, underground, crowds bustling.
Back then, horse-drawn carriages and fish came and went, and trucks entered no man's land. On the north side of Beijing Road, there is an unnamed alley leading to Huangjiatang, one of the ponds in Shashi. Fill in the soil to create land, and the pond becomes flat. In the low workshop, a kind of crisp and hard hemp cake is introduced. What is Hemp Cake? That is, the filling of sesame seeds, the double-sided sesame seeds of the Nine Emperor Cakes, and the fillings are mostly filled with peach kernels. Today, many people dismiss it, forty years ago, its flavor was really tempting. The pastry factory in the alley gave it a prestigious and atmospheric name - Nine Emperor Cakes.
It is widely publicized that it is commonplace today, and three-year-olds are well known. At that time, advertising never appeared in the vision of shashi people.
The huge pattern of the Nine Emperors Cake is painted on the baker's bus, saying that it is a bus, carrying passengers for more than a month, and the welfare of carrying night shift workers has been abolished. The bus is rough in workmanship, but it has a length of nine meters, and the biscuits, sodas, and nine imperial cakes taken by the manufacturer are arbitrarily hand-painted, and the ink paint is graffiti all over the body. At this moment, its use is already a tightly covered truck, draped in nine emperor cakes to carry goods between Yichang in Shashi. Along the 318 route, people have never seen any on-board advertisements, and the rural towns they pass through are all unusual. "Floats" are the names they give, and whenever the "floats" whistle by, the farmers in the fields will stand up and watch the "floats" disappear from the dust. New things, of course, are curious.
Therefore, in Shashi and southwest Hubei, the first case of car advertising came into being because of the Nine Emperor Cake, which is not of epoch-making significance of advertising.
At the northeast corner of Beijing Road, dilapidated restaurants and patchwork of huts stretch northward, and it took decades before the Jiaotong Tower was erected.
The more the merrier, of course, the better. Following the car advertisement, the huge advertisement of the Nine Emperor Cakes rose up here. "Chutian characteristics, Famous points of Jin and Tang Dynasties, excavations of more than a thousand years of history, inheritance, and reproduction." The artistic conception is vast and majestic, the scene is magnificent, proud of the same people, who give me up! DynaSky Advertising was created first by nine-king cake in Shashi.
Writing this, the golden sesame cake lingered in front of my eyes.
"Listen to the three things, every time you want to go to Jingzhou."
The Three Kingdoms, Jingzhou, Liu Bei, and Jiangling Ma Cake are a topic of entanglement.
"Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou, whether he borrowed or did not repay", this widely circulated afterword, who does not know?
"It is not difficult to borrow and repay and then borrow" is a folk warning term for borrowers, but it is too pale, and if it is binding, it is only moral. The target has been included in the bag, let alone a Jingzhou County, not to mention the geometry of nai nai. Lao Lai is not a product of the market economy, and there is no shortage of people in the agricultural era.
The lender, the Eastern Wu who had traveled thousands of miles, was naturally indignant, and Sun Quan vowed to return to Jingzhou without delay. Helplessly far away, the length of the bridge is beyond reach. How easy is it to recover lost land? The famous Eastern Wu general Zhou Yu had his own clever plan, falsely claiming that Sun Quan wanted to marry his sister to Liu Bei, and when Liu Bei took it, he took the opportunity to take Liu Bei as a hostage and force Jingzhou to return, which was really a good way. When people reach their twilight years and marry new people again, Liu Bei is happy. Zhuge Liang planned to escape from Eastern Wu with his wife after getting married, and the story really evolved like this. Zhou Yu led his troops to chase after them, but was unexpectedly defeated by Zhuge Fu's troops, and in history, there was a laughing stock of "Zhou Lang's wonderful plan to safe the world and lose his wife and fold the soldiers". The origin of the Nine Emperor Cakes is precisely due to the Jiangling Ma Cake that Emperor Liu brought to Eastern Wu when he was recruiting relatives.
Unfortunately, the fifty-fifth edition of the Romance of the Three Dynasties does not include Gangneung Ma Cake. But Liu Bei took a boat down the river, marrying his daughter-in-law was not polite, and maybe there were hemp cakes in the ship? Although the novelist Luo Guanzhong did not leave a single word of hemp cake in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, it gave us an endless imagination space to play at will.
Then there's the hemp cake in the "city." In the city, it is not within the built-up area of the city, nor is it the opposite of "township". In the city, it is a special word for Shashi Jiangling and its surroundings, specifically referring to the ancient city of Jingzhou. In the city, it is the common name of the old and children in Jingsha District, and the word "in the city" is used freely without annotation. But the merchants in the foreign port rarely understand it, as long as they know that the "city" is the ancient city of Jingzhou.
In the city, Democracy Street, a slender street of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The sweetness of the pastries fills the deep alleys in all seasons, and the Gangneung Cake Factory in the green brick Dewa is surrounded by old houses on the north side of Democracy Street. The hot sale of Shashi Jiuhuang cake has attracted the attention of Jiangling manufacturers. Nine Emperor Cake, isn't it handmade hemp cake, fine pastries can be played with and in the palm of the hand, how difficult is it to make hemp cake? The cake factory is full of ambition. But the Nine Emperor Cake in the straight line distance of less than five kilometers in the sand market has already taken the lead, nine paper card boxes won the Ministry of Light Industry Design Gold Award, hemp cake marketing is in full swing, is it difficult to follow a copy? Although the two factories are located in Shashi and Jiangling, the land of bullets, the license plate is one Hubei 02 and one Hubei 40, which are different administrative divisions. The same is a business, has always communicated with each other, from the end of the evil, how can you be in the same room.
Jiangling manufacturers are by no means concocted as they are, using their brains to change the "core", which is as easy as a palm. The pie filling is filled with colorful strips of orange peel preserves, and the hemp cake is broken open, and the red and green are interspersed. The name, of course, can not follow in its footsteps to use the Ninth Emperor, that has not become a cottage goods? Gangneung manufacturers will not wade into this muddy water. There is no difficulty in taking a unique name, since the ancient Jing Chu Duo Junjie. Gao Ren pointed out, a few words, changed "huang" to "yellow", taking the meaning of September chrysanthemum yellow. How harmonious, how loud. Huang and Huang homophones are different words, although the difference is a millimeter, but there is a difference between cloud and mud, and the new brand nine yellow cakes has been born in the city since then. It is not infringing, but also has benefits, why not enjoy it.
Nine yellow cakes, borrowed from Li Bai's poem "Nine days of dragon mountain drinking, yellow flowers laughing and chasing subjects", hence the name. The Nine Yellow Cakes contain more historical stories and ancient texts that can be written. Yongsan is the heart of the story. As for whether it is the Longshan of the Baling Mountains in Jiangling or the Longshan Mountains in the ten miles of The Southern Part of The Dantu in Anhui, let the historians search for them in the piles of old paper filled with sweat and cattle, and go to the hoarse and exhausted defense.
Back in those days, the stories of the Nine Emperor Cake and the Nine Yellow Cake were different, but the sales of the Nine Emperor Cake and the Nine Yellow Cake stood side by side, and the two factories went hand in hand in the bidding for the hemp cake.
Sand City, published in 1984, an official book in hard shell on canvas. The Nine Emperor Cakes are among them as shashi products, and are recorded below to correct the audio-visual. "The Nine Emperor Cake is said to have been a kind of pilgrimage gift carried by the shashi people at the temple fair two hundred years ago. Jiuhuang cake has the characteristics of beautiful appearance, prominent hemp aroma, strong fruit flavor and crisp and crisp, which is loved by the majority of consumers. Since 1981, it has been rated as a first-class product in the province's pastry product quality appraisal and appraisal meeting. In 1984, it was rated as an excellent food in Hubei Province."
"Legend passed down two hundred years ago"? Am I mistaken? Moreover, it is summarized in the "transmission" of folk legends, which shows the rigor of the official text. Although its wording is still room for adjustment, it is still the most authoritative statement on the origin of the Nine Emperor Cakes so far. The article "Sand City" mercilessly cuts the origin of the Nine Emperor Cakes for more than a thousand years, condensing it into just two hundred years, like Jin Sheng sighing and chopping "Water Margin". For those who are keen to fabricate historical stories, there will be deep regrets. What can be done? History, as it should be.
Nine Emperor Cakes, Nine Yellow Cakes, Yellowstone Harbor Cakes, do not need DNA identification, they are blood relatives of the same ancestor.
Whether it is "Liu Bei sent out the Nine Emperor Cakes in Eastern Wu when he recruited relatives", or the Qinglian residents eating the Nine Yellow Cakes in Jiangling or Dangtu's Longshan, or "drunkenly watching the wind and hats fall" in the haze of wine and hot ears, these wonderful stories of nothingness are still circulating in the folk. In the joy of tasting tea and eating cakes, it is really interesting to talk about history and appreciate ancient poems.
In recent years, Western-style cakes have been integrated into our daily lives, and Chinese bakeries are struggling. The former two state-owned enterprises of Shashi Food and Jiangling Food have disappeared in the tide of institutional reform. Nine Yellow Cakes has long ceased to exist, and only its former glory can be found in the Internet. Nine Emperor Cake, deeply influenced by the Western-style cake industry, can only survive in the cracks. Defeat the fierce enemy - West Point, in order to revitalize the mighty wind, perhaps, can only talk, "the green mountains can not cover, after all, the east flow."
Extinction of species refers to the disappearance and destruction of the non-renewable nature of plants or animals. Intangible cultural heritage will end up in the rivers of history if it is not passed on, and the only way to retain the Nine Emperor Cakes or the Nine Yellow Cakes is to consume them.
The Nine Emperor Cakes are not as crunchy as people describe them, and they are appropriately evaluated by their hard taste. Baked at low temperatures, the moisture of the Nine Emperor Cakes when shaping gradually disappears with the heat of the roasting. In the era when there is no vacuum co-extrusion barrier, pasteurization or ultra-high temperature sterilization, drying and even salting are an effective way to prolong food storage, and the drying of nine royal cakes is for long-term storage.
Nine Emperor Cake, it is not a meal for three meals but a refreshment, although it can also fill the hunger, it is a well-known snack food for people today. When we leisurely brush our mobile phones, taste fresh tea, or watch Chen Xiaoqing's food program in a happy mood, slowly and methodically chew the Nine Emperor Cake, inadvertently, the round cake is eaten a little bit, and the thick aroma rushes to the tip of the tongue, which is interesting and because of the Nine Emperor Cake.
Note: Some of the pictures are from headlines.