Mooncakes symbolize reunion and should have been recorded in writing since the Ming Dynasty. If we look at the information about moon cakes and Mid-Autumn Festival folklore in the Ming Dynasty, we should be able to see the historical track of the reunion of moon cakes: after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the whole family will sit around and share the moon cakes and fruits (offerings for the moon). Because the moon cake is also round and shared by the family, it gradually forms the implication that moon cakes represent family reunion.

In some parts of Guangdong, there is a custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in Yue Bai, mainly for women and children. There is a common saying that "men don't have a full moon, and women don't sacrifice stoves". Folk customs in the south of the Yangtze River are also varied during the Mid-Autumn Festival. In addition to eating moon cakes, Nanjing people must eat osmanthus duck, a famous dish of dancing dragon Jinling. In addition to eating moon cakes, people in Sichuan Province also eat Ciba, kill ducks, eat sesame cakes and honey cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Sacrificing the moon is a very old custom in our country, and it is actually a worship activity of the ancients to the "Moon God". Eating moon cakes and enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival is an indispensable custom in the northern and southern parts of China. Moon cakes symbolize a happy reunion. People regard them as holiday food, and use them to worship the moon and give them to relatives and friends. ?

As an offering to worship the moon god, moon cakes have a long history. The word moon cake was first included in Wu Zimu's "Dream of Liang Lu" in the Southern Song Dynasty. Mooncakes are integrated with local food customs, and they have developed Cantonese, Jin, Beijing, Su, Chao and Dian styles, which are loved by people all over China.

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The traditional method of making moon cakes is to take water-oil dough or ghee dough as the skin, fill it into a flat round green embryo, press it into a mold to make the surface appear convex and concave, and eat it after baking. Its skin is made of various crisp methods, and there are various crisp skins; Its stuffing is made of jujube paste or five kernels, bean paste, pine nuts, ham and spices, and becomes a variety of stuffing hearts with different flavors.

The crust of ice-covered moon cakes mainly uses glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour and sugar, and is made of cooked dough. Some materials such as chocolate, coffee and juice will be added to the crust of ice-covered moon cakes, which can not only add the flavor of the crust, but also make the crust produce different colors.

In addition to red bean paste and mung bean paste, fruit paste, cheese and chocolate can also be used to make stuffing with different flavors. Some mooncakes with frosted skin are filled with jam or crispy rice to enhance the taste. When the stuffing is prepared, it is wrapped with outer skin, pressed and molded with a mold, and then put into the refrigerator for cold storage.

Because the moon cakes with ice skin are not baked, they can't be killed by high temperature, and they don't need to be heated before eating, so they can be eaten directly cold. Therefore, the factory building for making mooncakes with ice skin must maintain environmental hygiene, and the producers should strictly abide by the hygienic procedures for making food.