2. It is said that when Emperor Taizong and Yang Guifei were enjoying the moon and eating Hu Bing on a mid-autumn night, Yang Guifei looked at the bright moon in the sky and casually said, "It's better to call it a moon cake." Since then, Hu Bing has been renamed as a moon cake. It was not until the Ming Dynasty that eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival began to spread among the people. The folk eating moon cakes is also related to Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
3. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, because people couldn't bear the cruelty of the ruling class of the Yuan Dynasty, resistance activities took place everywhere. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang also joined forces with various resistance forces to prepare for the uprising. However, because the officers and men of the Yuan Dynasty searched very strictly, it became very difficult to pass on the news. This was a trick that Liu Bowen came up with. He told people to spread rumors everywhere, saying that the winter plague was popular, and only every household could avoid it by buying moon cakes, so he put away the possession of "August 15th night".
4. When people bought moon cakes home and found the words "Mid-Autumn Festival, Kill Tartars and Meet the Rebels" written on the note, they were sent to the uprising troops in various places, so on August 15th, all places started to respond at the same time. On that day, insurgents rose up all over the country, Xu Da captured the capital of Yuan Dynasty, and the uprising was successful, so it also made the "moon cake uprising" a much-told story.
5. After Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, he naturally attached importance to the custom of "eating moon cakes". Every year, when the Mid-Autumn Festival comes, all soldiers will be given moon cakes. Therefore, the custom of eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival has spread among the people so far.
1. At the beginning, moon cakes were not called moon cakes, but called Hu cakes, which were the offerings of the ancients to worship the moon god in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and were later continued. According to historical records, as early as the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces invented a kind of "Taishi cake" with thin edges and thick hearts, and "Taishi cake" became the ancestor of "moon cakes". Later, Zhang Qian of the Han Dynasty brought back sesame seeds and walnuts when he went to the Western Regions. People put walnuts and sesame seeds into moon cakes and invented round cakes filled with walnuts, which were called "Hu cakes".
2. It is said that when Emperor Taizong and Yang Guifei were enjoying the moon and eating Hu Bing on a mid-autumn night, Yang Guifei looked at the bright moon in the sky and casually said, "It's better to call it a moon cake." Since then, Hu Bing has been renamed as a moon cake. It was not until the Ming Dynasty that eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival began to spread among the people. The folk eating moon cakes is also related to Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
3. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, because people couldn't bear the cruelty of the ruling class of the Yuan Dynasty, resistance activities took place everywhere. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang also joined forces with various resistance forces to prepare for the uprising. However, because the officers and men of the Yuan Dynasty searched very strictly, it became very difficult to pass on the news. This was a trick that Liu Bowen came up with. He told people to spread rumors everywhere, saying that the winter plague was popular, and only every household could avoid it by buying moon cakes, so he put in possession of "the night of August 15"
4. When people bought moon cakes home and found the words "Mid-Autumn Festival, Kill Tartars and Meet the Rebels" written on the note, they were sent to the uprising troops in various places, so on August 15th, all places started to respond at the same time. On that day, insurgents rose up all over the country, Xu Da captured the capital of Yuan Dynasty, and the uprising was successful, so it also made the "moon cake uprising" a much-told story.
After Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, he naturally attached importance to the custom of "eating moon cakes". Every year, when the Mid-Autumn Festival comes, all soldiers will be given moon cakes. Therefore, the custom of eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival has spread among the people so far.