Right Yu Mooncakes

Right Yu Mooncakes

　　Made with flour, white sugar, and flaxseed oil, along with ingredients such as rose petals, candied fruits, walnut kernels, peanut kernels, raisins, and sesame seeds, a traditional recipe meets modern production techniques in the making of these mooncakes. Today marks the opening of the First Right Yu County Mooncake Culture Festival.

　　 Zhang Xiang, member of the Standing Committee and Minister of Propaganda Department of Right Yu County, introduced that the inaugural Mooncake Culture Festival is aimed at further promoting traditional culture, showcasing corporate excellence, boosting mooncake sales, and providing consumers with a quality environment for selecting mooncakes. The goal is to establish the Mooncake Festival as an important, sustainable brand cultural event for Right Yu.

　　 He stated that in recent years, the Right Yu County Party Committee and County Government have been enhancing traditional industries centered around green and specialty foods. Through government guidance, industry self-regulation, and law-based management, they have supported the formation of the Right Yu County Food Association among mooncake producers. This includes establishing industry regulations and quality standards for mooncake production. The “Lüdu” (Green Capital) mooncake trademark has been registered, and guidelines for standardizing and rectifying the mooncake market have been issued, forming a development model of “unified standards, unified trademark, and unified packaging.”

　　 Currently, a new structure for modernizing Right Yu’s traditional industries has been established, enabling the local specialty “Lüdu Mooncakes” to enter larger markets and follow a path of small-scale but large-group, standardized production. By 2006, the county had over 30 mooncake processing factories of various sizes, employing 300 people. The production includes more than 20 varieties of distinctive flavored mooncakes such as mixed sugar cakes, syrup-lifted cakes, crystal cakes, oil-skin, crispy crust egg yolk, fruit, and red bean paste. The annual output value reached over 30 million RMB.

　　 Right Yu County is located in northern Shanxi and is a key production base for high-quality flaxseed oil in the province. Historical records indicate that flax has been cultivated in Right Yu for over two thousand years. Mooncakes produced with Right Yu’s flaxseed oil are well-known across Shanxi. These mooncakes primarily use locally produced pure flaxseed oil, along with premium flour and white sugar, complemented by rose petals, candied fruits, walnut kernels, peanut kernels, raisins, and sesame seeds. They are meticulously crafted using a combination of traditional recipes and modern production techniques, characterized by being “sweet but not greasy, crispy but not crumbly, and long-lasting without spoiling.” (End)