Chaoshan moon cakes in Chaoshan Mid-Autumn Festival custom

The Mid-Autumn Festival custom in Chaoshan area also has unique local characteristics. There is an old saying: "Men don't look at the moon, and women don't worship the stove." When women are in Yue Bai, men will make friends, go to the balcony or climb mountains, set tea sets, boil water and make tea, and enjoy the moon while tasting moon cakes.

There are two kinds of Chaoshan moon cakes, one is called lard cake; There is a kind of peanut oil called clear oil cake. This kind of cake is baked in Yixi Town, a suburb of Chaozhou Prefecture.

The cake is thin and crisp, and the filling is greasy and cold; Packaging is also very distinctive. It is packed in a pottery bowl and sealed with red paper, with golden lettering on it, which is particularly quaint. Everyone likes to regard Yixi cake as a good product of Yue Bai. On the eve of Mid-Autumn Festival, except shops, all the streets and alleys set up stalls to sell bread, and almost all the pedestrians on the street were baskets and bags of bread.