Other names for moon cakes include: moon cakes, palace cakes, Hu cakes, small cakes, reunion cakes, harvest cakes, etc. Mooncakes first appeared in "Mengliang Lu" written by Wu Zimu in the Southern Song Dynasty. However, this mooncake does not refer to the mooncakes eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mooncakes were originally tributes used by ancient ancestors to worship the moon.

What is the meaning of moon cakes?

Moon cakes symbolize the happiness, happiness and harmony of group members, which is similar to the meaning of the Mid-Autumn Festival and has a long history in China.

Mooncakes were first recorded in the Tang Dynasty, but it was not until the Ming Dynasty that the custom of eating mooncakes and admiring the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival began to spread among the people.

Mooncakes were originally used as sacrifices to the moon god. Later, people gradually began to appreciate the moon and eat mooncakes as necessary customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival.