Dali "cake" has a long history, which can be traced back to matriarchal society. According to textual research, it evolved from stone gifts and totems, is the product of totem worship, and is also the crystallization of the wisdom of ancient working women and their pursuit of a better life, so this custom has been preserved and passed down to this day.
Dali "cake" is very famous in the whole province and even the whole country. Dozens of pounds for big noodles and half a dozen dollars for small noodles. Small as eggs and beans, fine and delicate. Wang Yuxia, a noodle florist in Bayu Township, Dali County, participated in the first "Xiheng Cup" noodle floral competition in Shaanxi Province and won the second prize (according to Dali County Records). Compared with other ground flowers, Dali "cake" has four characteristics: first, it has a long history; Second, the connotation is rich; Third, it has the shape of Gu Zhuo; Fourth, the image is vivid. It shows the life and cultural features of the ancient Yellow River Basin. After marriage, the bride's family will send a "cake" to her married daughter. The homonym of "cake" is "mutton", so there are sayings of "sending cake" and "bringing cake".
The cake is delivered after the wedding, around August 15 of the lunar calendar, and the bride's family chooses an auspicious day. They put red happy characters on the cake, put them in boxes, and solemnly "send them out", while the man has to set the table and set the dishes for a grand reception.
It is different to bring a cake. When two things happen at the same time, the wedding day is called "bringing cake". "Bringing cakes" is a metaphor for "bringing lambs", that is, pregnancy before marriage is the most taboo.
The cake is divided into two parts: the main cake and the main cake. There are generally two lead cakes, at most four, and the main cake must be two.
The cakes are all tigers in shape, some are charming, some are majestic, and some are as docile and amiable as cats. The leader cake is four tigers, and the main cake is a pair of male and female. The bottom of the cake is round or oval, and there are two or three layers of red dates or walnuts in the middle. Flowers, insects and fish are inserted in it with bamboo sticks, and the eggs are sandwiched between tiger's mouths, red and white, layered on top of each other, rich and beautiful, simple and gorgeous. I send this every year. My daughter is finally going to have a baby. I will send another cake to my little life. I wish you healthy growth and successful career. At the same time, it must be accompanied by four plates (eight in each plate) of "paper buns" to directly imitate female genitalia. Use it to entertain guests, reward relatives and friends, and show the family's prosperous reproductive ability and the pride of carrying on the family line. Jujube stands for "early birth", walnut stands for "everlasting", and eggs are like hens laying eggs. Eggs become chickens, and chickens become eggs, which means strong fertility. Flowers, plants, insects and fish are more abundant. Peony means that the bride will bring wealth and good luck to her husband's family, butterfly means loyalty to love, and frog means reproduction. The little man with a man and a woman directly embodies the thoughts of "five sons admitted to school", "rich wife is expensive" and cherishing life, respecting each other and praying for fertility. Generally speaking, the three-story jujube buns and the flowers, insects and fish inserted in them indicate that they are rising step by step and thriving.
When you pinch "cakes", you have strict choices about who you pinch. Generally speaking, we should choose people who are ingenious, good in character, decent and clean, have both little wives and big girls in the attic, are well-off and have both children and children. In short, choose the top people in the village. Big families pinch cakes, ranging from a dozen to eight, usually three or five, or they will "sing".
After the host organizes the people, there will be coaches called "aunt" or "sister-in-law" (depending on age and seniority). In the future, according to the procedures of kneading dough, making bottom, kneading flowers, matching colors and cooking pots, people will arrange appropriately and cooperate with each other to complete this sacred work in a joke. Most experts who pinch "cakes" are respected elders in the village. Because of their words and deeds, "cake", the crystallization of ancient history and culture, has continued to this day, making "cake" a simple and simple gift that is popular now.
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