The authentic mung bean cake from Daoxiang Village.
Daoxiangcun was founded in 1895 and is one of the southern food brands with a long history in Beijing. Focusing on the field of traditional specialty foods, it has been using "Bake Art Supreme" as its brand slogan for many years and is well-known at home and abroad. As a large-scale traditional food enterprise, Daoxiang Village has a profound historical heritage and exquisite production technology. Mung bean cake is one of its important representatives. It is made of carefully selected high-quality mung beans and has a refreshing and refreshing taste with a long aftertaste. It is a widely Favorite traditional snack.
Daoxiangcun was founded in Suzhou in 1773 (the 38th year of Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty). It mainly sells Chinese pastries, green salt preserves, candies and roasted nuts, and has been in business for two and a half centuries. It is one of the oldest existing enterprises in China's pastry industry and is also a "Chinese Time-honored Brand" certified by the state. Suzhou Daoxiang Village has long become a national cultural symbol in its two and a half centuries of inheritance.
The origin of the name Daoxiang Village
According to the book "Southern Food Stories": When Emperor Qianlong visited Suzhou on his southern tour, he had nothing to do one day. During a private visit incognito, he met Daoxiang Village and suddenly realized that the name of the store was quite interesting. For the sake of elegance, I strolled into the store. After tasting the honey cake in the store, he praised it as "an excellent food and a rare delicacy." After returning to the palace, he ordered the Suzhou Prefecture to send Daoxiang Village honey cake to Beijing as a tribute in the future. After Qianlong ate the honey cake in the palace, he was so happy that he gave him a gourd signboard with the three characters "Daoxiang Village" written in gold. Daoxiang Village became famous all over the world.
Taking its name from Daoxiang Village in the Grand View Garden in Cao Xueqin’s famous work "A Dream of Red Mansions", it is the most famous professional store (factory) with a long history of producing and selling Suzhou-style pastries in Suzhou. It is also the most comprehensive inheritance and development of Su-style pastry shops. The most representative store (factory) is famous for its superb production skills and also selling Su-style game.
On August 31, 1926, "Suzhou Ming Pao" published an advertisement for the completion of a new house in Daoxiang Village, saying: We opened the east end of Zhusi Lane in front of Xuanmiao Temple in Suzhou City for more than a hundred years. Due to the expansion of business, it is still being renovated at the original location. Build a tall Western-style facade. On the occasion of the completion of the new house, a trademark with the word "禾" was added. However, according to the 1914 "Jiangsu Province Industrial Administrative Report", Daoxiang Village was founded in the third year of Tongzhi (1864).
The "Chunhuaguan Food and Drink History" drafted in 1931 said: "The shop owner of Daoxiang Village was surnamed Shen. He took refuge in the country during the Hongyang War. He once set up tea restaurants in a village by Yangcheng Lake, and his business was still known as Not evil. After the chaos, he returned to the city and accumulated wealth. Because he planned to expand his business, he set up shop in Guanqian Street. "The above records are different, and it is difficult to verify them in detail.
The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Daoxiang Village