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The Kuo Yuan Ye Museum was established in 2001. In the beginning, they hope to exhibit the old cultural relics in the factory in Taoyuan. However, Kuo Yuan Ye wants to introduce Taiwanese pastry by more vividly ways, so that there are History Display, Wedding Ritual Area, Play Room, and Creative Baking Classroom on the fourth and fifth floor in the Kuo Yuan Ye Museum Shihlin Branch.
We visited the Kuo Yuan Ye Museum in Shihlin Branch near our school on December 16th, 2022. We went to the fourth floor to buy the tickets, there are Play Room and the Creative Baking Classroom there. Coincidentally, we saw many elementary school students visiting there, too. Mostly, we visited the History Display, Wedding Ritual Area, and Red Silk Ball Experience Area.
The Curator, Mr. Chang introduced each area to us. From his thorough introduction, we learned the establishment process of the pastry shop and many rituals about pastry. For instance, the red turtle pastry also called “Full Moon”. There are different shapes. The round one means blessing, joyful and complete, and it looks like the breast, hoping the new born baby to eat well and grow up soon. When the baby is about four-month old; there will be a ritual. That is to collect the baby’s saliva. The elders will string up 12 cookies to a red string and put onto the baby’s neck, the cookies will be on the baby’s check. And then pull out each cookie to wipe the baby’s saliva, saying blessing words like, “Collecting the saliva, there will be another baby next year; collecting the saliva means wishing the baby to say Dad and Mom soon.” at the same time. That means to collect the baby’s saliva, we are going to have another new baby next year, and the baby can speak soon.
We interviewed the curator, Mr. Chang in the Wedding Experience Area, visited the Wedding Ritual Area, and wore the wedding head decorations in the Experience Area.
The Kuo Yuan Ye Museum is an interesting museum which helps us to get to know more about the pastry culture of Taiwan!