Ancient moon cake was the food as a sacrifice in the Mid-Autumn Festival, due to the passage of time, moon cake has been alienated into the Mid-Autumn Festival food and gifts. Mid-Autumn Festival custom of eating moon cake appeared in the Tang Dynasty. When the Northern Song Dynasty, the kind of cake is called "Palace cake" in the court within the popular, but also spread to the people, then commonly known as little cake. Later evolved into the round, meaning a better reunion.
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Moon cake usually refers to people in the Mid-Autumn festival to eat this particular bread, usually round. View from the historical record, for the first time with the Mid-Autumn Festival Moon cake link is on August 15 great general Li Jing return victorious campaign against the Xiongnu, Emperor in Tang Hu received the Turpan merchants offer cakes, moon smile that said: "should Hu cake invited toad. " According to "Los in knowledge" records, Tang Xizong command in the imperial kitchen Mid-Autumn Festival will be cake with red Aya reward to the new scholars. But If we can not be called moon cake. The term was first seen in the Southern Song Wu Zimu moon cake "Dream Beam recorded", the time of the moon cake is Linghua shaped, and chrysanthemum cake, plum cake and so on exist, and the "four seasons also have a claim call as you like, do not mistake patrons" . Moon cake can be seen at this time, not only in the Mid-Autumn Festival to eat. As for the origins of the term moon cake has been difficult to trace. Song Su-known writers, but left "little cake, such as chewing on, there are cakes and jelly," the poem, perhaps this is the moon cake the name of the source and basis for the practice of moon cake. Large since the Ming Dynasty records on the moon cake, when the moon cake is round, and only eat in the Mid-Autumn Festival, is the Mid-Autumn Festival was popular since the Ming Dynasty when the festival on the main offerings. "Scenery of Beijing Strategy," said: "On Aug. 15 ceremony, the festival will be a round fruit cake." "Home based on the out side in the moonlight, to the month and worship, the burning moonlight of paper, withdraw the supply, bulk of the family will be all over. moon cake on fruit, Qi is fed with newspaper, the cake has diameter two feet were. "widespread use of moon cake the emperor to pass uprising in the Aug.
15 news stories, and historical inaccuracies, as the emperor had no leadership Guo Zixing uprising but joined the team, also took Guo goddaughter wife, who is the Empress Ma. The moon cake was a message delivered if the legend is true uprising, that would most likely have to Shicheng. But the legend on the other hand that the Yuan will have a custom of Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cake. Moon cake symbolizes reunion, it should be the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. Ming the moon cake if we integrated the information with the Folk Festival of view, should be able to see the moon cake happy to take the history of Italian track: Mid-Autumn Festival months later, the whole family sitting together to eat moon cake sub-month results (Festival on offerings). Because the full moon cakes are round, but also the family points to eat, so gradually formed a representative of moon cake symbolizes family reunion. i love you