The Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, is a festival that symbolizes reunion and is naturally accompanied by a reunion dinner. Although there are many Mid-Autumn food customs and cultures in our country, the most "popular" one is eating mooncakes.

The origin of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Mooncakes are also known as Hu cakes, palace cakes, moon dumplings, reunion cakes, etc. Mooncakes symbolize reunion and are a must-have sacrifice for worshiping the moon and the Lord of the Earth during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The custom of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival originally originated from the Tang Dynasty army's victory celebration food.

During the reign of Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, General Li Jing conquered the Turks by relying on mooncakes to hide his message, and returned triumphantly on August 15th. Since then, eating mooncakes has become an annual custom.

Mooncakes truly became a secular delicacy. According to legend, they were handed down in the late Yuan Dynasty.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, politics was corrupt and the people were in dire straits. People wanted to unite to resist the tyranny of the rulers, 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, and every household had to buy mooncakes to eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival to avoid it.

People bought mooncakes and returned home, only to find a note hidden inside, which said: "On August 15th, attack the city at night!" So people rose up in rebellion against the rulers, and this is how the custom of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival was passed down.

There is another saying that in the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, general Xu Da captured Beijing, the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, where the remaining forces of the Yuan Dynasty were entrenched. The good news reached the capital Nanjing. Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty who was playing chess, was overjoyed.

During the uprising against the Yuan Dynasty, military parades were used to convey messages and rewards to the subjects.

Mooncakes have since become a "legal" food during the Mid-Autumn Festival and must be eaten.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, it was popular in the palace to eat a kind of "palace cake" during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Slowly spread to the people, who call this kind of cake "small cake" and "moon group".

Su Dongpo has a poem that says: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crispy and sweet fillings in the middle."

It was not until the Ming Dynasty that eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival gradually became popular among the people.

At that time, the ingenious bakers printed the mythical story of Chang'e flying to the moon as a food art pattern on mooncakes, making mooncakes a must-have food for the Mid-Autumn Festival that is more popular among people.

Moon cakes symbolize reunion, and people regard them as festive food, using them to worship the moon and give them to relatives and friends.

To this day, eating mooncakes has become a must-have custom for celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival in both north and south China. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, people eat mooncakes to express "reunion."

Mid-Autumn Festival customs? 1. Mid-Autumn Festival and Moon Sacrifice? Moon worship activities are almost invisible now. In ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival moon sacrifice activity was an ancient worship activity for the "Moon God". It was essentially an ancient ancestor's worship of celestial phenomena.

In ancient times, the ancients in some places worshiped the moon and gradually became a custom of worshiping the moon. Our current Mid-Autumn Festival evolved from the traditional "moon worship" and was written in the "Book of Rites of Zhou" between the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty.

"" said that in the pre-Qin Dynasty, there were activities such as "welcoming the cold on Mid-Autumn night", "offering good furs on Mid-Autumn Festival", and "worshiping the moon on the eve of the autumnal equinox".

2. Appreciating the moon? The custom of appreciating the moon comes from worshiping the moon, and the serious worship has turned into a relaxed entertainment.

Folk activities of appreciating the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival began around the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but have not yet become a custom.

In the Tang Dynasty, admiring and playing with the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival was quite popular, and many poets included verses praising the moon in their famous works.

By the Song Dynasty, a Mid-Autumn folk festival centered on moon-viewing activities was formed, which was officially designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Different from the people in the Tang Dynasty, people in the Song Dynasty were more sentimental about the moon when appreciating the moon. They often used the waxing and waning of clouds and clear moons to describe human emotions. Even on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the clear light of the moon could not hide the sadness of the Song people.

But for people in the Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival has another form, that is, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival of secular joy: "Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, all shops sell new wine, noble families decorate their terraces and pavilions, and private families compete in restaurants to play in the moonlight and play music.

Hearings from thousands of miles away, playing and sitting until dawn" ("Tokyo Menghua Lu").

The Mid-Autumn Festival in the Song Dynasty was a sleepless night. The night market was open all night and there were endless tourists enjoying the moon.

The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival custom can be seen in the custom of eating moon cakes.

When families get together and enjoy the sweetness of mooncakes, they fill the home with joy and bring more beautiful memories.

Although mooncakes are an indispensable part of the memory of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the most important thing is to reunite with family members to spend the festival and reap blessings and happiness.

Mid-Autumn Festival, reunion, family harmony.

May this moment of happiness accompany our family and bring us more good times!