Barley cake is a good memory of childhood. At the full moon, the farm moon cakes made by every family in the rural areas of the south of the Yangtze River in the past August and a half can only be eaten by children during the Chinese New Year holiday. People with good conditions will make many such wheat cakes and hang them on the kitchen stove in August and half a month, or around the Spring Festival and during the busy farming season. Early-rising school children or farmers are the most wonderful breakfast or snacks for porridge farmers. The wheat cake basket on the kitchen stove was once the most coveted place for children and the best memory of childhood.

Yangshan highland barley cake mainly comes from farm formula and is refined through scientific improvement. At present, it is a specialty of Yangshan.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Barley is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the functions of promoting digestion, resolving stagnation, benefiting qi, regulating the middle and wide chest, tonifying deficiency, strengthening blood vessels, benefiting qi, strengthening five internal organs and dissolving grains." It contains 17 trace elements and more than 19 amino acids, and is rich in vitamins, unsaturated fatty acids, protein and dietary fiber. Barley food is very suitable for people to return to nature and pursue health.

According to legend, when the Ming army attacked Wuxi at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Amo God blessed Yangshan, who was called "Mo Tiger in Yangshan" and led the people of Yangshan to defend Yangshan. He was besieged by the Ming army on Anyang Mountain, with no food and no food. He relied on this Yangshan barley cake to satisfy his hunger, but in the end, the Ming army attacked the mountain city with sheep instead of soldiers. Barley cakes have been handed down in Yangshan since then.

"Mo Tiger" Yangshan highland barley cake came from this.