It is said that in ancient times in China, emperors had the ritual of sacrificing the sun in spring and the moon in fall. In folklore, every August Mid-Autumn Festival, there is also a custom of worshipping or sacrificing the moon around. "The moon is full on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, and the mooncake is fragrant and sweet on the mid-autumn festival," says the famous proverb, which describes the custom of eating mooncakes on the night of the mid-autumn festival in the city and the countryside. The mooncake was first used as an offering to the moon god, and then people gradually took the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival and tasted the mooncake as a symbol of family reunion, and slowly the mooncake became a gift for the festival.

The mooncake was first introduced to the Tang Dynasty as an army food. During the reign of Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, General Li Jing was victorious in his campaign against the Xiongnu, and returned home on August 15 in triumph.

The Turpanese, who were merchants at the time, offered mooncakes to the Tang emperor. Li Yuan, the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty, took the gorgeous cake box, took out the round cake, and pointed to the bright moon in the sky with a smile and said, "I should invite the toad with the Hu cake." After saying this, he distributed the cakes among his ministers and ate them together.

The Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zimu's "Dream Liang Records" book, there has been the word "mooncake", but on the Mid-Autumn Festival to taste the moon, eat mooncake description, is the Ming Dynasty's "West Lake Excursion Zhi Hui" only recorded: "August 15 is called Mid-Autumn Festival, the folk to the mooncake to leave each other to take the reunion of the righteousness! ". By the Qing Dynasty, there are more records about mooncakes, and the production is becoming more and more elaborate.

Moon cake development to today, more varieties, flavors vary from place to place. Among them, Beijing-style, Suzhou-style, Canton-style, Chao-style moon cakes are widely eaten by people in the north and south of China.

Mooncakes symbolize reunion and are a must for the Mid-Autumn Festival. On the night of the festival, people also love to eat some watermelons, fruits and other fruits of reunion, praying for the family to live a full, sweet and peaceful life