The "Bo Cake" in Xiamen is also called "Bo Mid-Autumn Cake" and "Expo Cake". The formation of this custom is related to the national hero Zheng Chenggong. It is said that Zheng Chenggong was stationed in Xiamen more than 300 years ago. Every August, at the full moon of 15, soldiers full of anti-Qing and heroic spirit will inevitably miss home. In order to alleviate the soldiers' yearning for their relatives in their hometown during the festival, Hong Xu, a subordinate of Zheng Chenggong, invented a cake sharing game to let the soldiers enjoy moon cakes. Zheng Chenggong personally approved that from the lunar calendar 13 to 18, the army will watch moon cakes in turn on the basis of single and double days, for a total of six nights. This unique game gradually spread and improved among the people and became an interesting folk activity. In the early years, Bo Zhuangyuan cakes were mostly paid by relatives and friends or sworn brothers and sisters. They bought one or two moon cakes and shared them. Whoever wins the "first prize" will give everyone a gift in the Mid-Autumn Festival next year. Some of them have boys to send to two meetings. In this way, the number of cakes is increasing year by year, and we have to separate two independent groups. Generally, the family is presided over by the elders, and once or twice a year, the whole family forms a circle to blog.
The Mid-Autumn Festival cake is 63 yuan each. Each cake has 1 top students, 2 opposite classes, 4 "three reds", 8 "four advances", 16 "two lifts" and 32 "one show". The number of cakes in the plenary session is 63, including the number 796 13, which is an auspicious number. Because 998 1 is the number used by the emperor, 8972 is the number of chitose, and Zheng Chenggong sealed King Yanping, so he can only use the number 63. These 63 cakes represent the champion, the second place, the flower detective, the scholar, the juren and the scholar respectively. Take six dice, a popular folk gambling tool, and throw them in a big porcelain bowl in turn for participants to play games.
Nowadays, not only families have "Bo Cake", but also classmates, friends and colleagues use it. Organizations also organize people to play Bo Cake, which has become an indispensable social entertainment activity in Mid-Autumn Festival. Everyone may take part in many cake sharing activities around the Mid-Autumn Festival. And now the contents of the Expo are gradually enriched and the prizes have changed. Mooncakes are quietly hidden, replaced by some daily necessities, such as towels, shower gel, cooking oil, handicrafts and so on. Someone once returned the toothpaste and soap that had not been used for two years overnight, and finally had to pass it on to relatives and friends. Of course, the fun of shaking your head is not the size of the gift, and no matter how the prize changes, people pay more attention to the fun of playing games together, which is a time for everyone to get together and share.
Same moonlight, different Mid-Autumn Festival; The same Mid-Autumn Moon, different moon cake cultures. Mid-autumn moon, how much homesickness, Mid-autumn moon cakes, how many reunion expressions; A bright moon, cross-strait fun, six dice, brothers and sisters to play. In the tinkling sound, people laughed and passed this warm moment to the other side of the strait and to all continents.