Talk:Suncake (Taiwan)

message: There is a separate kind of suncake that used to be made in Beijing called (), for a holiday in the Chinese lunar calendar, made out of different ingredients than Taiwan suncakes. The suncake is made in celebration of the sun's birthday on the second lunar month's first day. The cake is made layer by layer out of rice flour or flour with sugar and steamed. The layers deviate in size from each other and the thickness of each layer is around one half of an inch. The cake is assembled from the layers from with the top layers being the small ones and the bottomost layer being the largest, when they are steamed. A red colored dough shaped into a cock chicken is placed on a stick, which is then inserted into a hole made in the middle of all the layers. 5 or 3 of these suncakes are put on a plate with gold, paper money, silver and two red candles on a courtyard table during daylight. A kowtow is made to the sun during the worshipping and incense sticks and the candles are lit and in the anterior of the table and iron basin is placed in which the worshipper burns the paper money.
The worshipper eats the cakes after the ceremony is over when the flame burns out the incense and candles.
http://books.google.com/books?id=zI0WXBhJcUUC&pg=PA193&dq=Suncake&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jXLPUMOqBcOa0QGZh4HYAw&ved=0CFcQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Suncake&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=5sgO9BuZQSEC&pg=PA86&dq=Suncake&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-3PPUMusOI_h0wHyz4DwDg&ved=0CGQQ6AEwCTge#v=onepage&q=Suncake&f=false
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http://books.google.com/books?ei=ZHnPULX4AqWz0QHv94CQAg&id=2pjSAAAAMAAJ&dq=Sun+cakes+peking&q=Sun+cakes+peking+merchants#search_anchor
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http://books.google.com/books?ei=ZHnPULX4AqWz0QHv94CQAg&id=s_AOAAAAQAAJ&dq=Sun+cakes+peking&q=Sun+cakes+peking+merchants#search_anchor
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http://books.google.com/books?id=5rRxAAAAMAAJ&q=Sun+cake+t'ai+yang+kao&dq=Sun+cake+t'ai+yang+kao&hl=en&sa=X&ei=V5DPUOaPK-f20gHTtYDQCw&ved=0CEIQ6AEwAw
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http://books.google.com/books?ei=V5DPUOaPK-f20gHTtYDQCw&id=5rRxAAAAMAAJ&dq=Sun+cake+t%27ai+yang+kao&q=Sun+cake+yang+kao+213+dynasty#search_anchor
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http://books.google.com/books?ei=V5DPUOaPK-f20gHTtYDQCw&id=5rRxAAAAMAAJ&dq=Sun+cake+t%27ai+yang+kao&q=special+Sun+cake+t%27ai+yang+kao+used#search_anchor
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http://books.google.com/books?ei=yHrPUIWOC6-u0AGEsoG4Dg&id=uwobAAAAIAAJ&dq=Sun+cakes+peiping&q=Sun+cakes+peiping+dough+dwells#search_anchor
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http://books.google.com/books?ei=sHbPUPmpO-LH0QHCkoGQAQ&id=WZfpAAAAMAAJ&dq=Sun+cakes+peking&q=+cakes+incense+kowtows+peking#search_anchor
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http://books.google.com/books?ei=VnfPULHZCous0AGWxYDYBQ&id=AJAnAAAAMAAJ&dq=Sun+cakes+peking&q=Sun+cakes#search_anchor
Reliable chinese language sources
http://www.zdic.net/cd/ci/4/ZdicE5ZdicA4ZdicAA100153.htm
http://big5.huaxia.com/zhwh/whrd/whrdwz/2010/03/1801695.html
http://www.china.com.cn/chinese/zhuanti/313017.htm
http://xh.5156edu.com/html5/115123.html
http://big5.ifeng.com/gate/big5/zhongyi.ifeng.com/news/slys/20133/231320.shtml
http://zhongyi.ifeng.com/news/slys/20133/231320.shtml
http://life.qianlong.com/36311/2013/03/20/4682@8575536.htm
http://www.showchina.org/zt/24jq/f_7/8/201203/t1124876.htm
Not reliable sources
http://baike.baidu.com/view/6446435.htm
03:53, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beijing suncakes 

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