Moon cake was first invented, which the story: moon cake, China has a long history. According to historical records, as early as in the Yin, Zhou stage, Jiang, Zhejiang, there is a kind of remembrance of the master Wenzhong's side of the thin heart thick "master cake", which is in our country's mooncake "ancestor". Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian through the Western Regions, the introduction of white sesame, Jinshi pomelo, for the production of moon cakes to bring the auxiliary materials, this time there will be walnut meat as the filling of the ring-shaped cake, so it is said that "Hu cake". During the Tang Dynasty, there were already bakers engaged in the production of folklore, and pastry stores appeared in Chang'an, the capital of Beijing. I heard, one year in the Mid-Autumn Festival night, Li Shimin and Yang Yuhuan enjoy the moon to eat Hu cake, Li Shimin smacked "Hu cake" name is not good, Yang Yuhuan gazed at the bright moon, excited, and then out of the mouth, "moon cake", and since then, "Moon Cake The name "mooncake" has been gradually popularized by the folk.

To the Ming Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival to eat mooncakes before the folk gradually spread, that time the dexterity of the baker, the fairy running to the moon of the myths and legends made for the food styling art patterns printed on the mooncake, so that the mooncake into an increasingly sought-after by the common people of the Mid-Autumn Festival essential food category. The earliest use of mooncakes to be in the Song Dynasty, but at that time the mooncake and the Mid-Autumn Festival does not necessarily contact, can only be used as a steamed food category of the daily food market is happening. The real meaning of the Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake to occur in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the Forbidden City in Beijing, there is a kind of fruit filling made out of mooncakes, and since then many people in the August 15 Mid-Autumn Festival gradually do their own mooncakes, their own family to take or to give to friends and relatives, in order to express the reunion of the whole family and the celebration of the meaning of.

There is also a saying that the moon cake, began in the Tang Dynasty army to celebrate the food category, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan year, general Li Tianwang conquest of the Xiongnu people victory, August 15 triumphant return. At that time, some people did business in Xinjiang Turpan people to the Tang Dynasty emperor to offer cakes to celebrate the victory. When Emperor Yang Jian of Han Dynasty received the gorgeous cake box, he took out the shape of the cake, pointed to the bright moon in the sky with a smile and said: "I should invite the toad with the Hu cake first". After the speech, the cake was distributed to the ministers to eat together. Mooncake development trend to today, more and more diverse categories, tastes vary from person to person. In which the aluminum flower, Su, Cantonese, Chao-style moon cakes widely in China's north and south of the country, everyone loves to eat.