August 15th every year is a traditional festival in China, and it is called Mid-Autumn Festival because it is just halfway through autumn. On August 15th, the moon in the sky was big and round, and Chang 'e lived in the Guanghan Palace in the sky. Therefore, August 15th is also the time when Hou Yi put on delicious food and hoped to meet Chang 'e.

Legend has it that Chang 'e rose to the Moon Palace because she ate the elixir of immortality, and she was unable to stay with her family from then on. Later, people put a full moon-like snack in the courtyard on August 15th to express Chang 'e's longing for her family. This happens every year, and it becomes the Mid-Autumn Festival.

According to legend, after Chang 'e flew to the Moon Palace, she confided to Yi that she was expecting a full moon tomorrow. She made balls out of flour, which were round and round like a full moon, and placed them in the northwest of the house, and then called her name continuously. In the middle of the night, you can go home. At that time, the fruit of Chang 'e will fly from the middle of the month, and the husband and wife will reunite. The custom of making moon cakes for Chang 'e in Mid-Autumn Festival is also formed from this. Since then, the custom of Yue Bai in Mid-Autumn Festival has spread among the people.

The legend of Mid-Autumn Festival:

1, Mid-Autumn Uprising:

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang joined forces with local resistance forces to prepare for an uprising. Liu Bowen, a military adviser, came up with a clever plan. He took advantage of the opportunity of giving each other wheat cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and put a note in the wheat cakes to convey the information of the uprising. He agreed to hold an uprising at the same time on the evening of August 15th. Later, when the uprising was successful, Zhu Yuanzhang handed down an edict. Every year on the Mid-Autumn Festival, he gave the "moon cakes" that conveyed information that year as holiday cakes to his ministers. Since then, the custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival has been handed down.

2, burning tower uprising:

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Liu Futong, Han Shantong and other Bailian leaders used religion as a cover to launch a peasant uprising, which received widespread response from all over the country. In order to keep pace with the rebels in the surrounding areas, the people of Chaoshan made a secret agreement in advance to build a tower with tiles and burn a fire in an open place on August 15 as a signal of the uprising. Later, burning towers became the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival and was handed down from generation to generation.