The Mid Autumn Festival is coming, and the most symbolic thing is moon cakes. So what's the meaning of sending moon cakes to relatives and friends? How many boxes of moon cakes do you usually send on Mid Autumn Festival? Let's have a look.
China has always been the habit of sending a single box of mooncakes to express its blessing to each other's family. Now, in addition to mooncakes, you can add a cigarette or wine to represent your intention for each other.
There are also those who recommend sending two boxes, and think it's more 'reunion'. A box of ordinary, a box of special (2 this number is a good number in China itself, the ordinary is mainly the sum, because everyone has a portion, especially the price is more expensive, the taste is special, try fresh).
If the moon cake gift box is large, and you need to buy other things, you can send one box; if you don't send other things, you can send two boxes.
The meaning of moon cakes in Mid Autumn Festival
Moon cakes on Mid Autumn Festival mean 'reunion'. Moon cake, also known as Hu cake, palace cake, moon group, harvest cake, reunion cake, etc., is an ancient offering to worship the moon god in the Mid Autumn Festival. It is said that in ancient China, emperors had the ritual of sacrificing the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. In the folk, every Mid Autumn Festival in August, there is also a custom of worshipping the moon or sacrificing the moon. "The moon is round on August 15, and the moon cakes are sweet in mid autumn". This proverb says that people in urban and rural areas eat moon cakes on the night of Mid Autumn Festival.
The moon cake was originally used as a sacrifice to worship the moon god. Later, people began to appreciate the moon and taste the moon cake as a symbol of family reunion. Slowly, the moon cake became an essential gift for the festival.
Moon cakes in Mid Autumn Festival don't like odd numbers
In China, gifts are given in pairs, which means that good things are in pairs, rather than in odd numbers. That's why some people highly recommend sending two boxes of moon cakes. However, it's OK to send a box of mooncakes as a general one, because you don't remember that it's single. The number of mooncakes in it is double, so there's no problem of single and double. It's OK to send a box.