Why do you eat mooncakes during the Mid Autumn Festival?

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in China, and is known as the four traditional festivals of the Han nationality in China together with the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Qingming Festival. According to historical records, the ancient emperors had a spring sacrifice day, autumn sacrifice moon ritual festival period for the lunar calendar, that is, the lunar calendar August 15, the time coincides with the third autumn half, so the name "Mid-Autumn Festival"; Because this festival is in autumn and August, it is also called "autumn festival", "August festival" and "August meeting"; There are also beliefs and related festival activities to pray for reunion, so it is also called "Reunion Festival" and "Daughter's Day". Because the main activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival are carried out around the "moon", it is also commonly known as the "Moon Festival", "Moon Eve", "Moon Chasing Festival", "Playing the Moon Festival" and "Moon Worship Festival"; In the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was also known as the "Duanzheng Month".

There are roughly three kinds of origins of the Mid-Autumn Festival: it originated from the ancient worship of the moon, the custom of singing and dancing under the moon to find a couple, and the ancient custom of worshipping the land god in the autumn newspaper.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has been a national holiday since 2008. The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, and on May 20, 2006, the folk custom was approved to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

This is a fine traditional practice.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is an interesting cultural tradition to eat moon cakes. There are three main reasons:

1.Symbolizing reunion: The Mid-Autumn Festival is an important time for family reunions, and many people will be away from home to work or study with their families. In order to express their thoughts and expectations for their family in Huaizhong, people will eat mooncakes because mooncakes represent fulfillment and reunion.

2.Pray for Happiness: The shape and meaning of mooncakes are associated with happiness.

Mooncakes are round and symbolize wholeness and perfection. The filling inside is also very rich, and many people will be sleepy and see the five-kernel mooncake as a symbol of the five blessings. Therefore, people will also feel happy when they eat mooncakes.

3.Commemoration of Yue Fei: Mooncakes are also associated with Yue Fei, a hero in Chinese history.

It is said that during the Southern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei used mooncakes to offer to soldiers to inspire them to fight with high morale and bravery. Later, people commemorated it and associated the Mid-Autumn Festival with mooncakes.

In short, eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival has a deep historical heritage and symbolic significance in culture.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the important festivals in traditional Chinese manuscripts, and eating moon cakes is a traditional custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is said that the original Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes were made to commemorate the illness of the righteous man Huo Qu during the Tang Dynasty.

Legend has it that during the Tang Dynasty, the Turkic rulers of the Western Regions wanted to show favor to the Tang Dynasty by contributing the "Tianshan Zhizhen" (a valuable animal) to the Tang Dynasty, but Tang Xuanzong considered this tribute worthless and refused to accept it. So the Turks were angry and organized an army to invade the Tang Dynasty and started a war.

In this war, the Tang Dynasty army had a soldier named Zhao Bao (bǎo), who was a smart and brave man who often won by surprise. In order to defeat the Turks, he came up with a plan, which was to fool the Turks and set a trap of poisonous cheese, so that the enemy would be surprised and won. In order to commemorate the joy of Zhao Baohe's victory, the people of the Tang Dynasty made a kind of "moon cake" to symbolize the light of the moon and the meaning of reunion, which gradually became the traditional festival food of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Therefore, the custom of eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival has been passed down to this day and has become a traditional custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in China, and eating moon cakes is a traditional custom in China, and the meaning of eating moon cakes is family reunion and family joy, reflecting people's good wishes for family reunion. "West Lake Excursion Journal" has a description: "August 15 is called the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the people leave each other with moon cakes to take the righteousness of family reunion."

The Mid-Autumn Festival has been in ancient China, in ancient times, people had the custom of eating moon cakes on the day of the full moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon cakes are round, which means reunion, so people use moon cakes to worship the moon god to pray for happiness and peace, and then people slowly formed the custom of admiring the moon and eating moon cakes at night during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the custom of sending moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival has been formed in the Yuan Dynasty.

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The twilight clouds are overflowing and cold.

Su Shi "Yangguan Song.

Decades of detail, ten Mid-Autumn Festival.

Fan Chengda's "Water Tune Song Head: Decades of Detail".

Ten rounds of frost shadows turned to the court, and the people were alone on this night.

Yan Shu "Mid-Autumn Moon".

Mid-Autumn Festival who shares the lonely light.

Su Shi's "Xijiang Moon: The World is a Big Dream".

If there is no moon repairer in the sky, the cinnamon branch will be damaged to the west.

Mi Fu "Mid-Autumn Festival Climbing the Tower and Looking at the Moon".

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Mi Fu "Mid-Autumn Festival Climbing the Tower and Looking at the Moon".

It is good to ride the wind, the sky is thousands of miles, and you can see the mountains and rivers directly.

Xin Qiji's "Too often to quote Jiankang Mid-Autumn Festival Night for Uncle Lu's submergence".

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Su Shi "Nian Nujiao Mid-Autumn Festival".

Where the green smoke is power, the blue sea flies into the golden mirror.

Chao Buzhi's "Song of the Cave Immortals: Mid-Autumn Festival in Sizhou".

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Su Shi's "Water Tune Song Tou Bingchen Mid-Autumn Festival".

This night is not good in this life, where will the bright moon look next year.

Su Shi "Yangguan Song.

Yinhan silently turned the jade plate.

Su Shi "Yangguan Song.