The Legend of moon cakesAccording to legend, in ancient China, emperors have memorial day in spring, autumn festival on the ritual. In the civil society, during Mid-Autumn Festival, but also about worship festival on month or custom. "August Mochitsuki children round, fragrant and sweet moon cakes," and this proverb tells the name of urban and rural people in the Mid-Autumn Night custom of eating moon cakes. Mooncake Festival was originally used instructions from Luna's offerings, then people gradually to the Mid-Autumn moon and tasting moon cakes, as a symbol of family reunion, slowly moon cakes have become a holiday gift.

Moon cakes, initially originated in the Tang troops celebrate a victory of food. Emperor Tang Gaozu years, the great general Li Jing's campaign against the Huns victorious, triumphant return August 15. At that time it was doing business in Turpan to the Tang Dynasty Emperor Hsien-cake celebrate a victory. Zu-Li Yuan took gorgeous cake box, took out a round cake, laughing refers to the air the moon said: "The cake should be invited Hu toad." Having to eat cake and give it courtiers.

Since the Southern Song Wu, animal husbandry, "Dream Liang Lu" a book, already has a "moon cakes" word, but the Mid-Autumn Festival to try on, eating moon cakes, a description of the Ming Dynasty's "West Lake will" only reads: "August 15 that the The Mid-Autumn Festival, moon cakes phase of civil society in left, take the meaning of reunion. " To the Qing Dynasty, on the moon records would increase, and also making more and more sophisticated.

Moon cakes to today, a greater variety, and tastes vary from place to place. One Beijing-style, Soviet-style, Cantonese-style, Chaozhou style moon cakes and other widely throughout the north and south of our country by people like eating.

Moon symbolizes reunion, the Mid-Autumn Festival will eat the product. During festivals, night, people also eat more watermelon, fruit reunion fruit, bless his family to live a happy, sweet, peace. Moon symbolizes reunion, the Mid-Autumn Festival will eat the product. During festivals, night, people also eat more watermelon, fruit reunion fruit, bless his family to live a happy, sweet, peace.

Lunar calendar August 15 is China's traditional Mid-Autumn Festival is also the second largest in China after the Chinese New Year traditional festivals. August 15 exactly in the middle of autumn, so that the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the fall of China's ancient calendar to the middle of August, the title, "Mid-autumn", so Mid-Autumn Festival also known as "Mid-autumn Day."

Mid-Autumn Festival night, moonlight bringing a the ancients the moon as a symbol of reunion, therefore, August 15, also known as "Reunion." Since ancient times, people often use "full moon, month absence" to describe the "joys and sorrows," guest in foreign land pioneers, but also is passionate sustenance months. Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai's "I raise my eyes to the moon, bow their heads and think of home," Du Fu's "Tonight dew from the white, month is no place like home," Song Wang An-shih's "spring to green river south, the moon when the photo I also" a poem, etc. are eternal never occur again.

Mid-Autumn Festival is an ancient festival, festival on the full moon is an important holiday customs. The ancient emperors have spring memorial day autumn festival on the social system of private houses also have the Mid-Autumn Festival on the wind, to the later emphasis on the full moon festival month, serious joyous worship became easy. The custom of Mid-Autumn Festival moon apogee in the Tang Dynasty, many of the poet's famous poem in both Wing On the Song and Ming dynasties, the Qing court and the private sector a larger scale, thanks to the activities on the full moon. Across the country still remains a lot of "worship on the altar", "worship the Moon," "full moon floor," a monument.

Beijing's "On the altar" is the next Jiajing built for the Royal Festival of the month. Whenever the Mid-Autumn Festival moon rises, in the case of an open-air set up, the moon, pomegranates, dates and other fruits on the desk case for the last, thanks to months later, the family sat around the table, tells us, Gong Shang moon. Now the festival has been on the activities of worship on a grand scale, colorful mass replaced by the full moon in recreational activities.

Another festival to eat moon cakes are custom cakes symbolize reunion. After the production of moon cakes from the Tang Dynasty more and more elegant. Su wrote a poem: "cookies, such as chewing months, there are crisp and jelly," Fu-Qing Yang wrote: "eat moon cakes loaded peach meat, ice cream, cream sugar sweet puzzle." It seems then cakes and now have been quite similar to the.

Practices throughout the Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the most important activities of the full moon and eat moon cakes.