Beating moon cakes refers to the process of wrapping the stuffing of moon cakes with epithelium, putting it into a wooden mold for shaping, and then beating the mold to make the moon cakes leave the mold. In fact, it is to refer to the whole process as a procedure in making moon cakes.

When making moon cakes, the ancients had to have a moon cake mold, put the moon cake blank wrapped with stuffing into the moon cake mold for extrusion, and then take the moon cake out of the mold. The traditional mooncake molds are all made of wood, and the shape of mooncakes is engraved on the thick wood, and then some words expressing beautiful patterns or praying for Naji are engraved. When demoulding, the moon cake mold is reversed and knocked, and the moon cakes that have been formed in the mold are knocked out.

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Moon cakes are offerings to worship the moon god in the ancient Mid-Autumn Festival, and they have been handed down from time to time, forming the custom of eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Moon cakes have a long history in China. According to historical records, as early as the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, there was a kind of Taishi cake in memory of Taishi Wen Zhong, which was the ancestor of China moon cakes.

Eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival was popular in the court in the Northern Song Dynasty, and later spread to the people. At that time, it was commonly known as "small cakes" and "moon cakes", and it became a food custom of the whole people in the Ming Dynasty. Mooncakes are integrated with local food customs, and they have developed into Cantonese, Beijing, Suzhou, Chaozhou and Yunnan mooncakes, which are loved by people all over China.

Moon cakes are made of molds. Moon cake mold, also known as moon seal, is a tool for making moon cakes. Moon cake molds can be traced back to the Song Dynasty at the earliest, but most of them have been passed down to the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Republic of China. Mooncake molds are generally made of solid and fine-grained wood such as pear wood, jujube wood and apricot wood, which is convenient for craftsmen to carve delicate patterns and is not easy to deform.

Moon cakes are often filled with plant seeds, such as walnut kernel, almond, sesame kernel, melon seeds, hawthorn, lotus seed and jujube paste, which have certain health care effects on human body. Plant seeds contain high unsaturated fatty acids, mainly oleic acid and linoleic acid, which are beneficial to soften blood vessels and prevent arteriosclerosis; Contains minerals, which is beneficial to improve immunity.

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