History
The beginning of giving out marry girl cakes started from the era of Three Kingdoms. At that time, Liu Bei had borrowed a place called Jingzhou for a long period of time and not returning it to its owner, Sun Quan. Thus, Sun Quan had accepted the idea of "honey trap" suggested by Zhou Yu, which was pretending to make his own sister marrying Liu Bei as to get back the land, who was newly widowed. Then, Liu Bei was greeted to marry in Soochow. He knew it was a trick. However after arriving Soochow, he told his soldiers to deliver cakes and eventually turned the marriage into real. Since then, Chinese had a custom of sending marry girl cakes when there was marriage, as to share the happiness with family and friends.
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