Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as "Moon Festival", "Autumn Festival", "Mid-Autumn Festival", "August Festival", "August Meeting", "Chasing the Moon Festival", "Playing with the Moon Festival", "Moon Worship Festival", "Daughter's Festival", "Reunion Festival", is a popular traditional festival among many ethnic groups in China, the time is the fifteenth day of August in the lunar calendar, because it is just half of the three autumns, so it gets this name, and the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and called the four traditional festivals in China.

Moon cakes, also known as moon cakes, harvest cakes, palace cakes, reunion cakes, etc., are the tributes to the moon god in the ancient Mid-Autumn Festival. Mooncakes were originally used as offerings to the moon god, and later people gradually used the Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing and tasting mooncakes as a major symbol of family reunion. Mooncakes symbolize great reunion, and people use it as a holiday food to worship the moon and give gifts to relatives and friends. Historically, eating mooncakes was not an indispensable activity for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and there were no mooncakes made specifically for the Mid-Autumn Festival during the Tang and Song dynasties. But since the appearance of the Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake in the Ming Dynasty, it has become a necessary part of the Mid-Autumn Festival custom. The original moon cakes originated from the Tang Dynasty army Zhujie food. During the reign of Tang Gaozu, the general Li Jing conquered the Turks and relied on the moon cakes to conceal the victory of the message, and triumphed on August 15, since then, eating moon cakes has become an annual custom. The Song Dynasty writer Zhou Mi mentioned the name of "moon cake" for the first time in the "Wulin Old Things", which recounted the experience of Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival gradually spread among the people. At that time, the ingenious baker printed the mythical story of Chang'e running to the moon as a food art pattern on the moon cakes, making the moon cakes a must-have food for the Mid-Autumn Festival, which was more popular with the people. Up to now, eating moon cakes has become a necessary custom for the Mid-Autumn Festival in all parts of northern and southern China, and people have to eat moon cakes on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival to show "reunion"