Do you know that there are sects in the Jianghu of mooncakes？
It is said that the custom of eating moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. For a long time, moon cakes have been integrated with local food customs, and gradually formed five "schools" of moon cakes: Cantonese, Beijing, Suzhou and Chaozhou. Nowadays, the traditional taste can’t fully meet people’s demand for moon cakes, so all kinds of exotic moon cakes and online celebrity moon cakes have broken into the "rivers and lakes" of moon cakes and become new choices for Mid-Autumn Festival consumption.
Cantonese-style moon cakes: Cantonese-style moon cakes are the most popular among the people at present. They originated in Guangdong and its surrounding areas and have been popular all over the country. They are characterized by thin skin and large stuffing, and the oil content of the skin stuffing is higher than that of other genres.
Beijing-style moon cakes: Beijing-style moon cakes reuse sesame oil, which reveals a sense of wealth at the foot of the imperial city. Legend has it that there was a serious plague in Beijing in ancient times. In the Guanghan Palace, Fairy Chang ‘e ordered the jade rabbit who pounded the fairy medicine for her to come down to earth to treat the suffering people, that is, the rabbit. Rabbit cured the people of the whole city with red and white medicine and returned to the Moon Palace. These two kinds of medicine evolved into natural white and natural red moon cakes, which are the representatives of Beijing-style moon cakes.
Su-style moon cakes: Formerly known as crisp moon cakes, they originated in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and surrounding areas, and were later handed down as Su-style moon cakes. The main feature is that the crust of the cake is loose, and the fillings are five kernels and bean paste, which are sweeter than other kinds of moon cakes. The main products are Su-style moon cakes with fresh meat and Su-style moon cakes with black sesame seeds.
Chaozhou moon cake: also known as Chaozhou fork cake, fork word, Chaoshan dialect refers to lard. Chaozhou-style moon cakes have a flat body, a white crust, crispy stuffing and a crisp entrance. The main characteristics are that the crispy skin is thin, the oil is not fat, and the mouth is not greasy. According to the types of stuffing, it can be divided into mung beans, black beans, crystals, purple taro and other types, while the inner core includes egg yolk or seafood.
Yunnan-style moon cakes: It is said that the emperor of Nanming small court who retired from Kunming in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties was worried about tea and rice all day long, and a royal chef chose Yunnan ham meat to cut into pieces and mixed it with honey sugar to solve the emperor’s homesickness. Later, this practice spread to the people, and after several improvements, ham moon cakes gradually became a major feature of Yunnan moon cakes.
Once, netizens launched a cyber war for the argument of "Let Wuren get out of the mooncake world". Now, more incredible mooncakes are born, and netizens have said that there will be a blood shed in the mooncake world! For example, this "leek egg" moon cake is covered with eggs, which adds up to the flavor of leek eggs!
There are also these bullish "super luxury version" moon cakes: bullfrog moon cakes, abalone moon cakes and crayfish moon cakes!
In addition to those wonderful mooncakes that are "endless with words", many big brands have cooperated with mooncake manufacturers to launch the creative "online celebrity Mooncakes". For example, this moon cake set with the shape of "Moon Rabbit" and "Xiangyun" launched by the Palace Museum is deeply loved by netizens, and netizens have commented that they are "crying"!