Moon cakes symbolize reunion and are a must-have sacrifice for worshiping the moon and the Lord of the Land during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The custom of eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival was handed down from the late Yuan Dynasty. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people planned to rise up against the Mongolian rule, but they were unable to deliver the news. Later, Liu Bowen came up with a plan to spread rumors everywhere that there was a winter plague epidemic, which could be avoided unless every household bought mooncakes to eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival. People bought mooncakes and returned home, only to find a note hidden inside, which read: "On Mid-Autumn Night, kill the Tatars and welcome the rebels!" So everyone revolted against the Mongolian rulers, and this is how the custom of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival remained. of. Wuxi people usually eat braised rose sugar taro on the morning of the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is said to be related to this. According to legend, after the Mongols destroyed the Song Dynasty, the ethnic oppression was so severe that the Han people wanted to resist at all times. One year, everyone made an appointment to do it together on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. In order to get tired of winning, people eat braised taro, which symbolizes the head of the "Tatar" falling to the ground. This is the origin of eating sugared taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival. This legend has mutated in various parts of Chaoshan: at that time, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty stipulated that each Chao family must have a Mongolian soldier living in it, supported by the Han people, monitoring the actions of the Han people, and only three households were allowed to use one kitchen knife. The common people were so disgusted that they took advantage of the opportunity to eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival and put notes announcing the incident into the stuffing of mooncakes. The Chaozhou people believe that taro is homophonic to "beard head" and is shaped like a human head. Therefore, every Mid-Autumn Festival, taro is used to worship ancestors. This has been passed down through the generations and still exists today. There is a custom of eating taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival in various parts of Guangdong, which is said to commemorate the historical story of the killing of the Mongols in the late Yuan Dynasty. After the Mongols were killed during the Mid-Autumn Festival, their heads were sacrificed to the moon, and later they were replaced with taro. To this day, Cantonese people still call it "peeling ghost skin" when peeling taro skin. In addition, the game of burning tile lamps (or burning flower towers, burning tile towers, burning fan towers) is also widely spread in the south, and is spread in Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places. For example, Volume 5 of "China National Customs" records: Jiangxi "On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, ordinary children pick up tiles in the wild and pile them into a round tower shape with many holes. At dusk, they burn them in a tower of firewood under the bright moon. After the tiles are red-hot , then pour kerosene on the fire and add fuel to the fire. In an instant, the fields are as red as the sun, and it shines like daylight until late at night, when no one is watching. This is called burning a tile lamp. The tile-burning pagoda in Chaozhou, Guangdong is also a hollow pagoda built with bricks and tiles, filled with branches and set on fire. At the same time, smoke piles are also burned, which is to pile firewood into piles and burn them after the moon worship. The burning of Fan Pagoda in the Guangxi border area is similar to this activity, but folklore is to commemorate the heroic battle of Liu Yongfu, a famous anti-French general in the Qing Dynasty, who burned the Fan ghosts (French invaders) who escaped into the tower. It is quite popular. Patriotic thoughts. There is also a "tazai burning" activity in Jinjiang, Fujian. Legend has it that this custom is related to the righteous act of resisting Yuan soldiers. After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, it was said that it carried out bloody rule over the Han people, so the Han people resisted unyieldingly. Various places held riots on the Mid-Autumn Festival and lit fires on the top of pagodas as a sign. Similar to the Fenghuo Tower lighting uprising, although this kind of resistance was suppressed, the custom of burning pagodas remained. This legend is similar to the legend of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Since 2008, the country has stipulated the Mid-Autumn Festival as a statutory holiday nationwide. A socialist country composed of 56 ethnic groups and under the dictatorship of the proletariat forcibly stipulates the festivals of a single ethnic group as festivals of all ethnic groups in the country. This is not a wise choice. Don't revise communism into Han chauvinism! Sometimes the truth is often in the hands of a few people, and I don't feel alone. The lessons of history tell us: the more arrogant a ruling nation is, the more likely it is to become hot-headed and go in the opposite direction. In this Mid-Autumn Festival, when the whole country is celebrating, I wish everyone to eat two more mooncakes!