The beautiful symbolism of mooncakesisthe symbol of a beautiful reunion, symbolizing a family reunion and harmony.

Mooncakes are a traditional Chinese Han cuisine, mainly made of flour, eggs and sugar, with hawthorn, melon seeds, walnuts, almonds and other plant seeds, which are not only rich in flavor, soft and sweet.

In ancient times, every Mid-Autumn Festival, the custom of moon worship was held, with moon cakes, fruits and other offerings; the statue of the moon god was placed in the direction where the moon hangs, red candles were lit, and the family worshipped the moon, and the housewife of the house cut the moon cake of reunion for the family to eat together. In modern times, every Mid-Autumn Festival, the family mainly enjoys the moon and eats mooncakes.

Mooncake cultural practices

The Han Chinese lunar August 15 Mid-Autumn Festival dietary practices. In the Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo, a great poet, praised mooncakes in his poem "small cakes like chewing the moon, with pastry and syrup", from which it can be seen that the mooncakes of the Song Dynasty were already filled with ghee and sugar.

To the Ming Dynasty, the custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival is more common. Ming Shen Bang "Wan Department Miscellany" contains: "the common people's families are all to the month of making cakes to leave each other, the size of the different, called the moon cake." Discretionary Zhi said: "in August, the palace to appreciate the autumn begonias, jade hairpin flowers. Since the first day of the month, there are mooncake sellers, to the fifteenth day, every family offers mooncakes, fruits and melons. If there are leftover moon cakes, is the whole collection in a dry and cool place, to the end of the year to share the use of, said the reunion cake."