Where is the hometown of the first Chinese mooncakes?

Wuchuan City, Guangdong Province, has been named the "Hometown of Chinese Mooncakes".

On September 20, 2010, the China Cuisine Association officially awarded Wuchuan the title of "Hometown of Chinese Mooncakes". The awarding ceremony of "Hometown of Chinese Mooncakes" was held in Wuchuan City, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, and the China Cuisine Association officially awarded Wuchuan the first plaque of "Hometown of Chinese Mooncakes".

From the 12th to the 14th, the China Cuisine Association sent a five-member expert group to Wuchuan for investigation and review Wuchuan's declaration of "the hometown of Chinese mooncakes". The expert group was headed by Yang Mingduo, deputy director of the Expert Working Committee of the China Cuisine Association, and after a detailed investigation and review process, the expert group finally passed Wu Chuan's declaration on behalf of the China Cuisine Association and awarded it the title of "Hometown of Chinese Mooncakes".

The expert group believes that Wuchuan moon cakes have a long history, profound heritage, distinctive characteristics, unique flavor, complete style, advanced and mature technology, broad consumer market, strong local flavor, and are well-known at home and abroad.

At present, Wuchuan has more than 200 moon cake production enterprises, more than 30 enterprises above designated size, and more than 10,000 employees. According to incomplete statistics, in 2009, Wuchuan produced more than 9,000 tons of moon cakes, with an output value of more than 1.2 billion yuan, and the added value of the moon cake industry accounted for about 10% of Wuchuan's GDP, which has become a pillar industry in Wuchuan.

According to industry insiders, Wuchuan moon cakes have four major characteristics: first, the local characteristics are distinctive, and they are good at making kilograms of "big moon cakes"; The second is to pursue quality and ensure the freshness and hygiene of moon cakes through international and domestic food safety management systems; Third, it has won many awards in domestic industry competitions; Fourth, a large number of excellent brands have emerged, and the development of the industry has shown a situation of a hundred flowers blooming.

The person in charge of the declaration of Wuchuan's "Hometown of Chinese Mooncakes" said that through the declaration, Wuchuan will build an international brand of "Hometown of China's Mooncakes", which is conducive to promoting the overall improvement of the quality of the city's mooncake industry; Using the effect of the brand, it can promote the Wuchuan moon cake industry to become bigger and stronger, to the whole country and the world; At the same time, the leapfrog development of the moon cake industry will also promote the overall economic and social development of Wuchuan and promote the development of the city's food, hotel, transportation, tourism and other industries.

It is also reported that after Wuchuan won the title of "China's Mooncake Township", it plans to hold the annual "Wuchuan Mooncake Festival" from next year, and introduce incentive policies to encourage enterprises to create famous brands. Wuchuan Moon Cake Association will also take the lead in building a moon cake product testing center to unify the testing, identification, and regular spot checks of moon cakes to improve the product quality of the entire moon cake industry.

In Wuchuan, Guangdong.

Wuchuan mooncakes originated in the Southern Song Dynasty and have been around for more than 800 years. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wuchuan moon cakes have always been produced by hand and on a small scale. In the 80s of the last century, the local government cultivated moon cakes as an industry, formulated support policies for the moon cake industry, helped enterprises solve funds, introduced talents, innovated technology, formulated quality standards for the moon cake industry, and standardized business behavior.

Nowadays, the production of moon cakes in Wuchuan has developed from a small workshop-style manual production in the past to a modern mechanized production line, and has formed diversified and multi-level local characteristics in terms of cultural taste, taste, taste, and style. In August last year, the Chinese Cuisine Association awarded Wuchuan the title of "Hometown of Chinese Mooncakes".

The big moon cake made by Wuchuan is the most famous, ranging from one kilogram to seven .5 kilograms, its materials are exquisite, the production is rigorous, the process is fine, the skin is thin and the filling is thick, the crispy and refreshing, the sweetness is moderate, the flavor is pure, and the shape is beautiful, the color is golden, the pattern is exquisite, the pie crust is soft, the color and flavor are complete, and it has won the title of "China's famous brand", "China's top ten moon cakes", "China's gold medal moon cakes", etc., and the products are exported to Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia, and are well-known at home and abroad.

The hometown of Chinese mooncakes is one of the top ten business cards of Wuchuan. During September 2010, the China Cuisine Association sent a five-member expert group to Wuchuan for investigation and review Wuchuan's declaration of "China's Mooncake Township". The expert group believes that Wuchuan moon cakes have a long history, profound heritage, distinctive characteristics, unique flavors, complete styles, advanced and mature technology, broad consumer market, strong local flavor, and are well-known at home and abroad.

Wuchuan has more than 200 moon cake production enterprises, more than 30 enterprises above designated size, and more than 10,000 employees. Wuchuan produces more than 9,000 tons of moon cakes, with an output value of more than 1.2 billion yuan, and has become a pillar industry in Wuchuan.

After Wuchuan won the title of "China's Mooncake Hometown", it plans to hold the annual "Wuchuan Mooncake Festival" every year, and introduce incentive policies to encourage enterprises to create famous brands.

Zhanjiang County, Wuchuan City, Guangdong Province.

The royal township of moon cakes is Wuchuan City, GuangdongChinese Cuisine AssociationThe first plaque of "Hometown of Chinese Mooncakes" was awarded to Wu Chuan.

Wuchuan moon cakes have a long history, profound heritage, unique flavor, complete style, advanced and mature technology, broad consumer market, strong local flavor, and are well-known at home and abroad. This is another honor that Wu Chuan has won after winning the "Hometown of Chinese Folk Art", "Hometown of Chinese Down" and "Hometown of Chinese Plastic Shoes".

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The hometown of China's moon cakes is one of the top ten business cards of Wuchuan. During September 2010, the China Cuisine Association sent a five-member expert group to Wuchuan for investigation and review Wuchuan's declaration of "China's Mooncake Township".

The expert group believes that Wuchuan moon cakes have a long history, profound heritage, distinctive characteristics, unique flavor, complete style, advanced and mature technology, broad consumer market, strong local flavor, and are well-known at home and abroad.

Mooncakes symbolize reunion and should also be the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. If we look at the information about moon cakes and Mid-Autumn Festival folk customs in the Ming Dynasty, we should be able to see the historical trajectory of moon cakes and reunion: after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the whole family sits around and eats moon cakes and moon fruits (moon offerings).

Because the moon cake is also round, and it is eaten by the family, it has gradually formed the meaning that the moon cake represents the reunion of the family.

The word moon cake was first seen in Wu Zimu's "Dream Lianglu" in the Southern Song Dynasty, when the moon cake was diamond-shaped, and chrysanthemum cake, plum blossom cake, five-kernel cake and so on existed at the same time, and it was "the four sheds are all there, let it be called, and the chain is not wrong and cautious". It can be seen that the moon cakes at this time are not just eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Changxi. As for the origin of the term moon cake, there is no way to verify.

However, Su Dongpo, a famous literati in the Northern Song Dynasty, left a poem of "small cakes are like chewing the moon, and there are crisps and syrup", perhaps this is the basis for the name of moon cakes and the practice of moon cakes.

There are many varieties of moon cakes in China, which are divided into Beijing-style, Cantonese-style, Soviet-style, Taiwanese-style, Yunnan-style, Hong Kong-style, Chao-style, and even Japanese-style according to the place of origin; In terms of taste, there are sweet, salty, salty-sweet, spicy; In terms of filling, there are five kernels, bean paste, rock sugar, black sesame, ham moon cakes, etc.; According to the pie crust, there are three categories: pulp crust, mixed sugar crust, and puff pastry.

The origin of moon cakes, as a result of academic research, believes that it originated in the Yuan Dynasty.