The traditional food of the Mid-Autumn Festival is moon cakes. Moon cakes are round, symbolizing reunion and reflecting people's good wishes for family reunion.

Eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival is said to have begun in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang led the Han people to resist the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty and agreed to revolt on August 15th. They would send mooncakes to each other by sandwiching notes in the mooncakes to convey messages.

The custom of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival has spread among the people.

The English spelling is: mooncake. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang finally overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and became the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Although the Qing Dynasty later occupied China, people still celebrated this festival that symbolized the overthrow of alien rule.

According to legend, in ancient my country, emperors had a ritual system of worshiping the sun in spring and the moon in autumn.

Among the people, during the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, there is also the custom of worshiping or offering sacrifices to the moon.

"The moon is full in August and the fifteenth, and the Mid-Autumn moon cakes are fragrant and sweet." This famous proverb describes the custom of urban and rural people eating moon cakes on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Mooncakes were originally used as sacrifices to worship the moon god. Later, people gradually took the Mid-Autumn moon appreciation and tasting mooncakes as a symbol of family reunion, and gradually mooncakes became festival gifts.

Moon cakes originally originated as a food for the Tang Dynasty army to celebrate victory.

During the reign of Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, General Li Jing conquered the Huns and returned in triumph on August 15th.

At that time, some people from Turpan who were doing business presented cakes to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty to celebrate his victory.

The great ancestor Li Yuan took the gorgeous cake box, took out the round cake, pointed at the bright moon in the sky with a smile and said: "You should invite the toad with the Hu cake."

After speaking, he distributed the cake to the ministers to eat together.

The word "mooncake" already exists in Wu Zimu's "Mengliang Lu" of the Southern Song Dynasty, but the description of tasting the moon and eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival is only recorded in the "West Lake Tour Zhihui" of the Ming Dynasty: "On August 15th, it is said

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people send moon cakes to each other to symbolize reunion."

By the Qing Dynasty, there were more and more records about mooncakes, and the production became more and more sophisticated.