Anciently, mooncakes were eaten as offerings at the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is said that the custom of eating mooncakes at the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Tang Dynasty, and then became popular in the Northern Song Dynasty in the court, and then spread to the people, commonly known as the "small cakes" and the "moon ball", and developed into a national *** same dietary practices in the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty has become a national **** with the dietary practices.

Mooncakes and food customs around the integration, and the development of Cantonese, Beijing-style, Suzhou-style, Chao-style, Dian-style mooncakes, etc., by the north and south of China, people around the world favorite.

The mooncake was popular at the court during the Northern Song Dynasty, but it also spread to the public, where it was commonly known as "small cake" and "moon ball". Later evolved into a round, symbolizing the reunion of the good, reflecting the good wishes of the family reunion, but also on the deep thoughts of friends and relatives. Northern Song Royal Mid-Autumn Festival like to eat a "Palace cake", folk commonly known as "small cakes", "moon ball".

The Qing Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cakes has become a common custom, and the production skills more and more high. Yuan Mei, a Qing dynasty scholar, described the mooncakes as "crispy mooncakes, stuffed with pine nuts, walnuts, melon seeds, rock sugar and lard, which are not sweet, but rather fluffy and soft, very different from the ordinary".

Beijing's mooncake is the former door Zhimei Zhai made for the first. Across the country, has formed Beijing, Tianjin, Suzhou, Guangzhou, Chao five flavor series, and around the Mid-Autumn Festival, moon worship, moon viewing also produced many local folklore.

History of the Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival was initially formed in the Tang Dynasty, at that time there has been a moon worship and moon viewing custom, but at that time to celebrate the mainstream are generally emperors, officials, or literati, in short, are from the political and cultural sectors, fewer people class (the political world is dominated by the moon worship, and the altar of the moon to enjoy the moon is dominated). But history is always a spiral, and it will only be a matter of time before the minority turns to the masses.

In the Song Dynasty, with the development of the commodity economy, the public class was gradually expanded, at which time the Mid-Autumn Festival began to be officialized, and the various customs began to be perfected, and it became a festival with a celebratory nature. In the poem "Song of Water" by Su Dongpo, a great writer of the Song Dynasty, Su Shi describes the Mid-Autumn Festival as very "romantic", giving people a feeling of incomparable longing for the scene of Mid-Autumn Festival in the Song Dynasty, which shows that people in the Song Dynasty already have a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the Mid-Autumn Festival. And in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the secularization of the continued depth, the Mid-Autumn Festival is already formed a traditional festival should have all inclusive, customs, habits are already a more perfect framework.