How did Liu Beiqiao marry a beautiful wife, Longfeng, with a wedding cake?

Nowadays, many people still give Longfeng wedding cakes when they get married, so how did Longfeng wedding cakes rise? It turned out to be related to Liu Bei in the Three Kingdoms period. Let's take a look at the story of Longfeng wedding cake!

Longfeng wedding cake is the traditional name of Jianli County, Hubei Province. It tastes sweet and crisp, and it is as big as a moon plate, each weighing one catty and eight liang. The pattern of the cake surface is one of the happy characters, with dragons dancing around it, symbolizing good luck, so it is called dragon and phoenix wedding cake. Because it has such a beautiful symbol, local wedding celebration houses always use it to entertain relatives and friends and enjoy festivals.

How did the Longfeng wedding cake come from? A local folk song tells the answer. Liu Bei went to Wu Dong to get married, which made the dragon and phoenix auspicious. The story goes like this: During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan, the ruler of the State of Wu, adopted Zhou Yu's plan and pretended to marry his sister Sun Shangxiang to Liu Bei, but in fact he wanted to trick Liu Bei into Wu Dong and let him return to Jingzhou. Sun Quan's engagement with Zhou Yu is false, so they dare not let Wu Guotai, courtiers and ordinary people know, lest it become a reality. Zhuge Liang saw through his plot at a glance, so he played along and sent Zhao Baoyun and Liu Bei to Jiangdong.

Before the trip, Zhuge Liang made a large number of dragon and phoenix wedding cakes. After Zhao Yun arrived in Jiangdong, he distributed them to the subjects in Jiangdong. The subjects in Jiangdong got the wedding cakes of dragon and phoenix, and found that Liu Bei had come to Wu Dong to get married. They quickly told each other, and immediately the whole city knew, even Wu Guotai in the deep palace knew. Wu Guotai was interested in Liu Bei on a blind date with Kanluoji, so he agreed to the marriage. Sun Quan and Zhou Yu are self-defeating. Because it is the dragon and phoenix wedding cake that contributed to this marriage, it has also spread among the people.