Eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty. It originated from a Yue Bai ceremony in Yue Bai, which can be said to be a manifestation of natural fetishism. The Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, WU GANG Yutu and Chang 'e should regret stealing the elixir. What a beautiful poem! It has become one of the ancient and wonderful myths of this nation, showing the unusual worship of the moon as a god in the agricultural age. This tradition continued until the early days of liberation, when some people sold rabbits and regarded them as Chang 'e-like gods, except that they had been replaced by Mickey Mouse and cherry maruko. Legend has it that in the Tang Dynasty, moon cakes were not called moon cakes, because there were imported walnuts and sesame seeds in the stuffing, so they were called cakes. It was the Mid-Autumn Festival when Yang Guifei saw the moon while eating moon cakes. On a whim, she said that it should be called moon cakes, so she flattered Yang Guifei with the total naming rights of moon cakes. Of course, this is just a folk interpretation. In fact, the earliest written record of moon cakes in China is because of Su Dongpo's poem: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crispy inside and stuffing outside." In other words, since the Song Dynasty, moon cakes have gradually become popular, adding a layer of reunion. The round moon cake just takes the symbolic meaning of reunion. Wan Li is so bright, today is the clearest year. A poem by Zhi Zhu in the Qing Dynasty wrote: "Red and white hair becomes thinner, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is given to Gyeonggi." Sang Song, a Beiping folk in the Republic of China, said: "The lotus flowers are not fully thanked. Every family cuts moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, waxed paper horses and prostitutes, guesses boxing and orders, and enjoys the moon." It is conceivable that moon cakes have become quite popular in the changes of years. Festivals in China are always associated with eating, such as eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival and eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. This is related to the fact that the country has been an agricultural society for thousands of years. Festivals are closely related to agricultural solar terms. Eating at all festivals is a kind of closeness to the earth. Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are three traditional festivals in China, so eating moon cakes naturally becomes so important. The filling of moon cakes can be all flowers, but sweetness is the most important thing. There is a simple reason. In the primitive agricultural society, before sucrose and honey appeared, sweetness was once people's yearning and longing. Ancient philosophers thought it was the two noblest things related to light and the best word related to beauty. So now it is said that "sweet life" is the noblest embodiment of expressing the best days with sweetness. Therefore, the sweetness of moon cakes is inevitable and important, which reflects the long-term yearning and praise of a bitter nation for life, especially the round and sweet life. Some in the Qing Dynasty "Yanjing years" absolutely said: "Mid-Autumn moon cakes, Kyoto is the first one to go to the house and go to Meizhai, and there is not enough to eat elsewhere." When I was a child, my family lived near Qianmenlouzi. The Mid-Autumn Festival is naturally about eating moon cakes from Zhimeizhai, but at that time, the moon cakes sold by Zhimeizhai and other shops were mostly four kinds of traditional moon cakes, namely, natural, natural and natural. There were many kinds of pickled moss, red silk, sesame seeds and peach kernels in the fillings, but the sweetness of sugar and rock sugar could not be changed. Nowadays, people are more and more afraid of sweetness, and linking sweetness with hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia and obesity makes sweetness a terrible thing. Nowadays, moon cakes naturally cater to people's new tastes. They dare to stuff seafood, abalone, shark's fin, bird's nest and even ginseng. They are as fashionable as drawing faces. Originally symbolizing the simple meaning of family reunion and sweet life, it must be refined into a life-saving gossip elixir in the old man's furnace. Therefore, it is natural to dare to make popular moon cakes into aristocratic top products. Mooncakes of several thousand yuan or even ten thousand yuan, huge in quantity or priceless, are not news. This year, it unexpectedly turned into a pure titanium moon cake and was "displayed" with the fashion show. With the change of the times, must the folk things in the national tradition disappear? Or do you have to become so commercialized and luxurious? Whenever I see such a big moon cake and golden moon cake, I can't help thinking of a moon cake that Puyi gave to Ying Shao, Minister of the Interior. It is two feet long and weighs twenty pounds. It was amazing at that time, but now it seems to be a drop in the bucket.