Related allusions of Nantong Taoqian sesame seed cake

At that time, a man named Xu and Song Fu in Tongzhou City opened a "Tai Ding" grocery store in the East Gate, which mainly produced tea, food and cakes, and also had shops in other places. Later, Xu Shi donated money to the Qing government and often presented exquisite refreshments. Only the peach-inlaid sesame seed cake made by Master Tong Gang is famous for its fine selection of materials, exquisite processing, delicious taste and distinctive features. Since then, Nantong "Tai Ding" sesame seed cake has been known as "official dim sum" and is famous all over the world. After the advent of shortbread, sesame cake and shortbread are comparable, and they are two famous specialties in Nantong, which have attracted more and more interest from Chinese and foreign people and overseas Chinese. Nantong sesame seed cake has also been appreciated by Mr. Lu Xun. According to the manuscript of Lu Xun's younger brother Zhou Zuoren in Nantong Library, a native of Nantong, got a military position in Sun Yat-sen's General Staff Headquarters during the Revolution of 1911, and then went to Beijing to meet Lu Xun who worked in the Ministry of Education. Ji loves literature and often associates with Lu Xun. In the diaries of Lu Xun 19 12 to 1920, there are 50 entries that record his contacts with Ji. In a conversation between Lu Xun and Ji, Lu Xun once asked Ji Zi to study Nantong dialect by borrowing Notes on Nantong Dialect, and Ji Zi also gave Lu Xun a biscuit from his hometown. After Lu Xun tasted it, he would definitely think it deserved its reputation. So 19 14 years1month 15 Lu Xun Festival, "Nantong Pavilion sat for a while and brought back a bag of biscuits". After the war broke out, Tai Ding was closed. Later, the store opened the "Yongtai people" grocery store and inherited it to make sesame cakes. Later, tea shops such as Daoxiang Village, Jingfuzhai, Daxing, Dalong and Dinglong also competed to produce, and the sesame cake business became more and more prosperous and the reputation became bigger and bigger.