Fengting cake is mainly made of pure glutinous rice flour, with white sugar powder, peanuts and sesame seeds. , dried and steamed, cut into squares, sweet and delicious, suitable for the elderly and children, but also a good gift for relatives and friends. It is very popular inside and outside the province and in Southeast Asia. Fengting cake has a long history. As early as the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, it was used for folk festivals, wedding gifts, gifts to relatives and friends, fishermen and monks.
Because of the unique production technology of Fengting cake, the people engaged in this industry are getting older and older, the inheritors are getting scarcer and scarcer, and the inheritors of the production technology are even scarcer, so the technology inheritance is facing the crisis of extinction. Protection measures must be implemented as soon as possible to cultivate a new generation of process inheritors, so that this ancient folk unique flavor cake making process can be completely preserved and continued.
Brief introduction of Fengting Town, Xianyou County
Fengting Town, alias Fengcheng, is adjacent to Donghai Town in Liancheng District in the east, Jieshan Town in Quangang District in the south, Jiaowei Town in Xianyou County in the north, Xianyou garden village in the west, and Meizhou Bay coastline 5 kilometers southeast, belonging to Xianyou County in Putian City, Fujian Province. 2065438+June 2009, it was recognized as the first batch of ancient town names in Fujian Province.
Fengting is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with many low mountains in the northwest, with an altitude of 300 ~ 500 meters, and Damao Mountain is 646 meters above sea level, which is the highest peak in the country. The southeast is plain, with flat terrain, with a general elevation of 10 ~ 30m, and the lowest place is Haibin Village, with an elevation of only 5m. China's stratum belongs to Putian-Zhangzhou stratum community in South China Stratigraphic Area, with deep burial in the Middle Jurassic and before, which is located in the eastern subsidence zone of the second uplift zone of New China.