We all know that moon cakes and grapefruit are the most common in the Mid Autumn Festival. Moon cakes sent on the Mid Autumn Festival symbolize good wishes. It is necessary to eat moon cakes on the Mid Autumn Festival. Do you know why moon cakes are eaten on the Mid Autumn Festival? The origin and origin of moon cakes eaten on the Mid Autumn Festival.
We all know that moon cakes are the festival food of Mid Autumn Festival. But why eat moon cakes on the Mid Autumn Festival? Some people say, because moon cakes are round, symbolizing the full moon in the sky; others say, the round moon cakes should be with the moon in the sky, reflecting people's good wishes for reunion.
Moon cake, also known as Hu cake, palace cake, small cake, moon group, reunion cake and so on, is an ancient offering to worship the moon god in the Mid Autumn Festival. Along the way, a letter formed the custom of eating moon cake in the Mid Autumn Festival.
Moon cake has a long history in China. According to historical records, as early as in the Yin and Zhou dynasties, there was a kind of thin and heartfelt 'Grand Master cake' in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which was the 'ancestor' of the moon cake in China. When Zhang Qian sent to the western regions in the Han Dynasty, he introduced sesame seeds and walnut seeds, which added auxiliary materials to the moon cake making. At this time, there was a round cake filled with walnut kernel, named "Hu cake".
In the Tang Dynasty, there were already bakers engaged in production among the people, and the bakery began to appear in Chang'an, capital. It is said that on the night of the Mid Autumn Festival, when Emperor Taizong and his concubine Yang looked at the bright moon, they were filled with emotion and came out with 'mooncakes'. Since then, the name of' mooncakes' has gradually spread among the people.
The Royal Mid Autumn Festival in the Northern Song Dynasty likes to eat a kind of 'palace cake', which is commonly known as' small cake 'and' Moon Group '. Su Dongpo has poem cloud: 'small cake is like chewing the moon, in which there are crisp and happy. The literati of Song Dynasty carefully mentioned the name of "moon cake" for the first time in the old story of Wulin, which narrated the capital of Southern Song Dynasty Lin'an. By the Ming Dynasty, the Mid Autumn Festival moon cakes were gradually spread among the people. At that time, the ingenious Baker, the myth of anti Chang'e running to the moon, was printed on the moon cake as an instrument art pattern, making the moon cake become a necessary food for the mid autumn festival which is more favored by the people.
It is said that eating moon cakes on the mid autumn festival began in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang led the Han people to revolt against the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty, and agreed to revolt on August 15 to pass on the message by giving each other moon cakes. The custom of eating moon cakes on the Mid Autumn Festival has spread among the people. The English spelling is: moon cake.
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang finally overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and became the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
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 gradually took the Mid Autumn Festival to enjoy the moon and taste the moon cake as a symbol of family reunion. Slowly, the moon cake became a festival gift.
Moon cake originated from Zhujie food in Tang Dynasty. In the Gaozu period of Tang Dynasty, General Li Jing conquered the Huns and returned triumphantly on August 15.
At that time, Turpan people, who were engaged in business, offered pancakes to the emperor of Tang Dynasty. Li Yuan, Gaozu, took the gorgeous cake box, took out the round cake, pointed at the bright moon in the sky with a smile and said, "I should invite toad to the Hu cake.". Then he shared the cake with the ministers.
In the book Mengliang Lu by Wu Zimu of the Southern Song Dynasty, the term "moon cake" has been used. However, the description of tasting and eating moon cakes in the Mid Autumn Festival is recorded in the "West Lake Tour chronicle meeting" of the Ming Dynasty: "August 15 is the Mid Autumn Festival, and people leave moon cakes together, taking the meaning of reunion.". By the Qing Dynasty, there were more and more records about moon cakes, and the production was more and more refined.
With the development of mooncakes, there are more varieties and different flavors. Among them, Beijing style, Soviet style, Cantonese style, Chaozhou style and other moon cakes are widely enjoyed by people from north and south of China.