Legend has it that during the reign of Tang Gaozu, General Li Jing conquered the Huns and returned home in triumph on August 15. Turpan people who were doing business at that time presented cakes to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. High-impedance Li Yuan took the gorgeous cake box, took out the round cake, smiled and pointed to the bright moon in the sky and said, "Please invite toad with Hu cake." After that, he shared the cake with the ministers.

The moral of moon cakes

Eat moon cakes to show "reunion" Moon cakes are also called Hu cakes, Palace cakes, Moon cakes, Harvest cakes and Reunion cakes. It is an offering to worship the moon god in ancient Mid-Autumn Festival. According to legend, in ancient China, the emperor had a system of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. In the folk, every Mid-Autumn Festival in August, there is also a custom about Yue Bai or offering sacrifices to the moon.

The famous proverb "The moon is full on August 15th, and the Mid-Autumn moon cake is sweet and fragrant" tells the custom of urban and rural people to eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn night. At first, moon cakes were used to worship the moon god. Later, people gradually regarded the Mid-Autumn Festival as a symbol of family reunion, and gradually, moon cakes became a necessary gift for the festival.