February 2, "the backing of cake" - Sichuan, China Youth Travel Service

Two days of Lunar New Year in February, circulating in his hometown in rural areas to eat, "backed cake" customs. It is said that eating the "backing cake", the farmers would not have back pain all year round Ganhuo.
What is "backing cake"? That is made with glutinous rice flour into a flat-shaped, oval-shaped, the middle is slightly concave, as were waist-shaped cake collapse. Remembers the Spring Festival is over, will be busy farming the countryside opened: Spring spring spring Maki Sakamoto (Yu-double cropping of rice seedlings in plots), in the summer, "Robbery and Snatching" kinds of rice, wheat sowing in autumn ditching vegetables, winter manure Lan river mud. Father's back facing LOESS overturned, bending bows year after year. In order to pray in the new year can be safely and less acid, a waist leg pain, so fathers forefathers handed down in accordance with the custom: February 2 to eat, "the backing of cake."
I remember that shortly after the Spring Festival, a rainy day, the mother take advantage of team, "Shiraai" (rest), Amoy am good glutinous rice in the afternoon a few would perhaps go with our sister mill. Good flour mill started doing cakes had to come back. Mother told us that tension is usually not going to do cakes of grain, because in February two to eat "backing cake" was done. At that time we do not know "backing cake" means, but how but my mind was indescribably happy. Because there is little to eat this all year round both the cake of glutinous sweet again. Mother one of snow-white "backing cake" came in a round where a small steamer, sprinkle with sugar water, and later placed on the pan cooked with slow fire. Steamed after "backing cake" white and soft, eating up even more is both fragrant and sweet.
Today, after the Spring Festival were rare at the fields of labor, farm management is also very time-saving effort, farmers have more energy into other industries had increased. As farmers improved living standards, eating cake is not a rarity in rural areas to eat, "the backing of cake," the custom has also weakened. Occasionally eat a return, it is merely a commemoration of Bale.
----- Rain Wood

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