Moon cakes originated in the Tang Dynasty, which can be seen in Luo Zhong's knowledge records: at the Qujiang banquet in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tang Xizong presented moon cakes to scholars. One Mid-Autumn Festival evening, when Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei were enjoying the moon and eating Hu cakes, Tang Xuanzong thought Hu cakes were ugly. At this time, Yang Guifei was looking up at the moon, so she blurted out moon cakes. Since then, the name of moon cakes has spread among the people.

Moon cakes have a long history in China. According to historical records, as early as the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, there were Taishi cakes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces to commemorate Mr. Wen Zhong. This kind of cake has a thin edge and a thick heart, which can be said to be the originator of moon cakes.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the word "moon cake" was already in Wu's book Liang Lumeng, but the description of eating moon cakes and enjoying the moon was not recorded until the Ming Dynasty, and eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival was circulated among the people.

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According to the origin, sales volume and characteristics, the traditional mooncakes in China can be divided into four categories: Cantonese-style mooncakes, Beijing-style mooncakes, Soviet-style mooncakes and Chaozhou-style mooncakes.

In addition, Chaozhou-style moon cakes and Hong Kong-style moon cakes are merged into Cantonese-style moon cakes, and then another way of saying it is that there are four kinds of moon cakes: Cantonese, Suzhou, Beijing and Yunnan.

At present, moon cakes are divided into Beijing-style moon cakes, Jin-style moon cakes, Cantonese-style moon cakes, Yunnan-style moon cakes, Chaozhou-style moon cakes, Soviet-style moon cakes, desktop moon cakes, Hong Kong-style moon cakes, Huizhou-style moon cakes, Qu-style moon cakes, Qin-style moon cakes and even Japanese-style moon cakes.

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