What is Wu Dalang selling? As soon as Wu Dalang appeared on the stage, he kept shouting:"Cooking cakes one by one, cooking cakes, selling cooking cakes! "So, what exactly is the cooking cake that Wu Dalang sells?
As the name suggests, a cookcake is a flat, round dough, and you would be wrong to think that way. Actually, it's not really the big round pie that people think. In the market of the Song Dynasty, there were more than a dozen kinds of food called cakes, and it can also be said that it was almost a general term for noodle food, and there were only flat and round breads"Hu Cake", other names are rare. For example, noodles are called "sopans."", twist called"Long rope cake", square cake called"Sugar cakes", milk tofu is called "quiche.""。These foods called cakes are very different from what our contemporary people know.
The cake in the minds of the people of the Song Dynasty can be either flat or spherical, or cuboid or cuboidal, as long as it is made of flour or similar flour, it is called cake. So, what exactly is Wu Dalang selling? In fact, it is the steamed bun we eat today.
Steamed buns were originally called in the early Northern Song Dynasty"Steamed cakes"Later, Song Renzong ascended the throne, and his name was Zhao Zhen. "Zhen"Similar to the pronunciation of "steamed", in order to avoid Song Renzong Zhao Zhen, it was put on"Steamed cakes"Instead"Cooking cakes"Finish.