Moon cakes, originally a kind of offerings at the time of offering sacrifices to the moon, later became gifts given to each other by the people. "Journey to the West Lake" said: "People give each other moon cakes and take the meaning of reunion." Dongpo praised moon cakes with "small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crispness and pulp in them". According to legend, in ancient China, emperors had a ritual system of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. In the folk, every Mid-Autumn Festival in August, there are also customs about Yue Bai or offering sacrifices to the moon.

The famous proverb "The moon is full on August 15th, and the moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival are sweet and fragrant" tells the custom of urban and rural people eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival night. At first, mooncakes were used as sacrifices to the moon god. Later, people gradually regarded the Mid-Autumn Festival as a symbol of family reunion, and gradually mooncakes became holiday gifts.

In addition, moon cakes also symbolize good wishes and expectations for the future. In the process of making moon cakes, some beautiful meanings will be added, such as wishing family reunion, happiness, health and safety. People express their yearning and pursuit for these beautiful wishes by eating moon cakes.

The main types of modern moon cakes

Five-kernel moon cakes, five-kernel moon cakes are made of five main raw materials: walnut kernel, almond, olive kernel, melon seed kernel and sesame seed kernel. They are the "elders" in the moon cake industry, and there are five-kernel moon cakes everywhere, which are simple and simple in appearance, soft and delicious with the fragrance of nuts. It seems that because it has never changed, people who have been eating it since childhood have produced it. Young people are far away from Wuren moon cake, and only the elderly still love it very much.

Lotus seed cake. When I ate this moon cake many years ago, I was amazed by such a combination. The salty lotus seed paste matched with the soft moon cake stuffing neutralized the greasy taste and even had a double yellow color. Lotus seed cakes have also become all the rage, which is a classic among mooncakes.

Bean paste moon cake, fresh meat moon cake, ham moon cake, sesame moon cake. These mooncakes are new breakthroughs and attempts of mooncakes, and the results are not particularly ideal. After all, mooncakes belong to cakes, and adding meat as stuffing has not achieved any good response. Only mooncakes with bean paste are recognized by some consumers, and the bean paste is soft, smooth and sweet.