Eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival is as essential as westerners eating a hundred-fruit pie at Christmas. Round moon cakes are usually filled with sweet lotus seed stuffing or red bean stuffing, and a golden salted duck egg yolk is added in the center of the stuffing to represent the moon, which is the theme of the Mid-Autumn Festival celebration. People celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival together on August 15 of the lunar calendar every year. It is said that the moon on this day is the brightest and roundest in a year. This year's Mid-Autumn Festival happens to be in the solar calendar/.
There are two legends which claim to explain the tradition of eating moon cakes. There are two legends about the origin of the tradition of eating moon cakes. kloc-0/0 suns circling it.One day all 10 suns appeared at once, scorching the planet with their heat.It was thanks to a skillful archer named Hou Yi that the Earth was saved.He shot down all but one of the suns.As h is reward,the Heavenly Queen Mother gave Hou Yi the Elixir of Immortality,but she warned him that he must use it wisely.Hou Yi ignored her advice and, corrupted by fame and fortune,became a tyrannical leader.Chang-Er,his beautiful wife, could no longer stand by and watch him abuse his power so she stole his Elixir and fled to the moon to escape his angry wrath.And thus began the legend of the beautiful woman in the moon,the Moon Fairy.
One is a fairy tale of the Tang Dynasty, which tells that the earth was surrounded by 10 suns. One day 10 suns appeared in the sky at the same time, and the huge heat almost scorched the earth. Thanks to an archer named Hou Yi, the earth was saved. In order to reward Hou Yi, the heavenly queen gave it to Hou Yi. But the Queen Mother warned him that he must use it properly. However, Hou Yi ignored the warning of the Queen Mother, and he was carried away by fame and fortune and became a tyrant. His beautiful wife Chang 'e could no longer stand by and watch his atrocities, so she stole the elixir of life from Hou Yi and flew to the moon to escape his fury. From then on, there was a story about the moon fairy Chang 'e, the beauty on the moon.
The second legend has it that during the Yuan Dynasty, an underground group led by Zhu Yuan Zang was determined to rid the country of Mongolian dominance.The moon cake was created to carry a secret message. When the cake was opened and the message read, an uprising was unleashed which successfully routed the Mongolians.It happened at the time of the full moon,which,some say,explains why mooncakes are eaten at this time.
The second legend tells that in the Yuan Dynasty, the rebel army led by Zhu Yuanzhang planned an uprising to get rid of Mongolian rule. They used moon cakes to deliver secret messages. When they opened the moon cakes, they could find the secret messages inside. In this way, the rebel army successfully launched an uprising and drove away the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty. This uprising happened on August 15th, so the custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival spread among the people.