Mid-Autumn Festival holiday announced! The 3-day long holiday from September 19 to September 21 is "beckoning" to us. The Mid-Autumn Festival, the Spring Festival, the Qingming Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival are the four traditional festivals in China. The Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the Festival of the Moon Festival, the Moon Festival, the Reunion Festival, etc. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has had traditional customs such as moon viewing, eating moon cakes, drinking osmanthus wine, and playing with flower lanterns, which have been passed down for thousands of years.
When it comes to the Mid-Autumn Festival, the pictures that come to everyone's mind are inseparable from the word reunion! The Mid-Autumn Festival is a reunion festival, where families get together to drink tea and enjoy the moon and eat mooncakes. As a traditional Chinese delicacy, mooncakes were originally used as offerings to the moon god, and later became a traditional food for the Mid-Autumn Festival in northern and southern China. There are many kinds of mooncakes in China, in addition to Cantonese mooncakes and Su-style mooncakes, there are also Beijing-style, Dian-style, Chao-style mooncakes and other regional mooncakes.
Mooncakes vary in taste and form in different regions. Mooncakes with meat filling, five kernel fillings, bean paste fillings, egg yolk lotus paste fillings, date paste fillings, purple potato fillings, chestnut fillings, and just count a variety of traditional fillings. With people's pursuit of mooncake taste, there are now new types of mooncakes such as fruit filling, ice cream filling, and flower filling, which can be described as a variety of flavors and strange. Today we will plate a plate of China's nine mooncakes, how many have you eaten? Do you have mooncakes from your hometown?
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Cantonese mooncakes are famous in China, and are a popular mooncake in the southern region, especially in Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian and other regions, and the mooncakes eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival are mostly "Cantonese". Cantonese mooncakes are characterized by thin and fluffy skin, golden color, shiny crust and beautiful appearance. Different flavors of mooncake fillings use different ingredients, including char siu meat, preserves, sausages, lotus paste, salted egg yolks, etc., of which cantonese mooncakes with lotus egg yolk fillings are the most popular.
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After talking about Cantonese mooncakes, you have to mention The Su-style mooncakes! Su-style mooncakes are actually derivatives of Su-style pastries. We all know that Su-style pastries are exquisite and delicious, and the tastes are rich and diverse. If I tell you that The Su-style mooncake includes the classic Wuren mooncake, then you will understand the characteristics of the Su-style mooncake. As a traditional Mid-Autumn MoonCake, Wuren Mooncake has been loved by the people for thousands of years, with the characteristics of crispy and crispy, accompanied by a cup of tea, which makes people intoxicated.
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For northerners, Beijing-style mooncakes do not seem to be as familiar as Su-style mooncakes and Cantonese-style mooncakes. Beijing-style mooncakes are particularly popular in Beijing and the surrounding areas of Tianjin. The sweetness of the Beijing-style mooncake is moderate, the ratio of skin and filling is 2:3, the taste is crunchy, and the love of using sesame oil is the unique feature of the Beijing-style mooncake, the Beijing Daoxiangcun mooncake we are familiar with is the representative of the Beijing-style mooncake, and the red mooncake is a more classic Beijing-style mooncake.
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Many people may not understand which region the Dian-style mooncake belongs to, Dian-style mooncake originated in Yunnan, Guizhou around, Dian-style mooncake is characterized by the use of Dian-style ham into the filling, the filling taste is salty and sweet, in recent years, the popular in various regions of the country Cloud leg mooncake is the representative of the classic Dian-style mooncake! You know, in the early Ming Dynasty, dian-style mooncakes were once used as tributes, belonging to the royal dim sum, which shows that it has its own wonderful points, and remember to try the Mid-Autumn Festival that has not been eaten.
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Chao-style mooncake is one of the four major schools of mooncake in China, also known as the suncake. Chao-style mooncake is a traditional pastry in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong Province, which has the characteristics of fine skin and filling. The filling is also relatively rich, there are mung bean filling, date paste, black bean filling, crystal filling, purple taro filling, etc., tide-style mooncakes give people the feeling of being very similar to Cantonese refreshments, heavy oil and heavy sugar, and the taste is sweet and soft.
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Qu-style mooncake belongs to the mooncake genre with local characteristics in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, and is also one of the local specialties. An important detail in distinguishing Qu-style mooncakes is that Qu-style mooncakes pay special attention to the use of sesame seeds. You will find that the Qu-style mooncake is covered with dense sesame seeds, so the Qu-style mooncake also has a nickname, called "Qu-style hemp cake". Among them, Shao Yongfeng Hemp Cake is the most famous!
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In the Shanxi area, Jin-style mooncakes are their representative category of Mid-Autumn Mooncakes. Jin-style mooncakes focus on the combination of oil, sugar and eggs, the form is simple, and the taste is also known for being crisp and mellow, sweet and not greasy. Jin-style mooncakes are actually relatively unfamiliar to people in many parts of the country.
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Don't mistake Qin-style mooncakes for Thai mooncakes. In fact, Thai mooncake is a special mooncake in Xi'an, Shaanxi, Qin-style mooncake is represented by crystal mooncake, and the appearance value can be called the "ceiling" of the mooncake industry! It is characterized by being sweet but not greasy. Some Shaanxi mooncakes are presented in the form of abalone mooncakes, tea mooncakes, corn mooncakes, etc., which have the characteristics of taking into account meat and vegetarian food, and are mainly vegetarian mooncakes. Sugar and oil are prominent, and the filling will be filled with preserved fruits such as green and red silk, orange cakes, and roses.
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In the Anhui area, the mooncake that will be eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival is the emblem-style mooncake. Emblem-style mooncakes are characterized by large, small and delicate skin filling, and the outer skin is a layer of puff pastry, which is mixed with fine flour and vegetable oil and processed, which is a bit like the puff pastry of the egg yolk crisp we eat. Umeboshi mooncakes made with pickled wild vegetables (bitter board vegetables) and fresh lard are also made by filling them with traditional ingredients such as green and red silk, raisins, and winter melon candy.
All right! After watching China's nine mooncakes, how many have you eaten? Are there any mooncakes special to your hometown? In short, whether it is Cantonese-style mooncakes, Su-style mooncakes, Beijing-style mooncakes or any genre of mooncakes, in the end, they are only passed down from generation to generation as a traditional Food of the Mid-Autumn Festival. In fact, the Mid-Autumn Festival everyone pays more attention to the "reunion", if the family can not get together, what taste of high-end mooncakes to eat is not fragrant. I hope that everyone can get together with their families and have a happy reunion Mid-Autumn Festival.
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