How did Mooncake Ticket come about? How did it catch fire?

Mooncake coupons, also known as mooncake tickets and mooncake cards. It is a voucher for Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes, which is independently issued by each brand of mooncake manufacturers, and the holder of the voucher can redeem the corresponding mooncakes at all redemption locations specified in the coupon within a limited time. Mooncake coupons have been popular in Shanghai for many years, and Shanghainese people are accustomed to using mooncake coupons.

In the Mid-Autumn Festival in September 2011, mooncake coupons were used for huge profits. It's mine.

For the whereabouts of the moon cake coupons received, the merchant said that in addition to selling the moon cake coupons recovered from the Internet, they will also flow back to the original merchant who sold the moon cakes or moon cake coupons, and the hotel will turn the moon cakes or moon coupons out at about 20% off the original price. And then buy it back with a 50% discount ** from the merchant, and there is a considerable profit in this "one sale and one buy".

Although it is said that it is a second-hand monthly pass, the merchant has strict requirements for the appearance of the ticket, "there can be no creases, and if there are creases, it is new, and no one wants it." The merchant said that now the person who buys the cake coupon requires the appearance of the ticket to be new to facilitate the next turnover, and it looks as if it is used, and it is also respectful to give it to the other party, and it will not be a goof.

The principle of any business is the same: buy low and sell high.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are a large number of companies will issue moon cakes or moon cake tickets, and at the same time, there will be some people who want to buy (or give away or use for their own use), generally speaking, moon cake tickets are collected at 5 to 6 discounts, 7-8 discounts are sold, and the method of making money is the same as scalpers speculating on train tickets. However, flipping moon cake tickets is to fry at a low level, which is good for sellers and buyers, or it is not as harmful as speculating on train tickets.

Moon cakes are the first to appear in the Yin and Zhou periods in China, and there is no record of the first moon cakes.

The custom of eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival was formed. Mooncakes have a long history in China. According to historical records, as early as the Yin and Zhou dynasties, there was a kind of "Taishi cake" in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to commemorate the Taishi Wenzhong, which was the "ancestor" of Chinese moon cakes.

It is said to have originated in the Tang Dynasty. "Luozhong Experience" once recorded: During the Mid-Autumn Festival Xinke Jinshi Qujiang Banquet, Tang Xizong asked people to send moon cakes to reward Jinshi. During the Northern Song Dynasty, it was popular in the court, but it also spread to the people, and it was commonly known as "small cake" and "moon group" at that time.

Later, it evolved into a circle, which symbolizes reunion, reflecting people's good wishes for family reunion, and also deep longing for relatives and friends. The Northern Song Dynasty royal Mid-Autumn Festival likes to eat a kind of "palace cake", which is commonly known as "small cake" and "moon group". Su Dongpo has a poem:

The small cakes are like chewing the moon, and there are crisps and syrups in them."

Moon cakes were originally a kind of offerings during the moon festival, and later became a gift for each other by the people. "West Lake Excursion Journal" said: "The folk give each other moon cakes to take the righteousness of reunion."

Dongpo praised moon cakes with "small cakes such as chewing the moon, crispy and syrup". According to legend, in ancient China, the emperor had a ritual system of sacrificing the day in spring and the moon in autumn. In the folk, every Mid-Autumn Festival in August, there is also the custom of worshipping the moon or worshipping the moon.

August 15 is full, Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes are fragrant and sweet", this famous proverb speaks of the custom of urban and rural people eating moon cakes on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival. Mooncakes were originally used as sacrifices to the moon god, and later people gradually used the Mid-Autumn Festival moon appreciation and tasting mooncakes as a symbol of family reunion, and slowly mooncakes became holiday gifts.

Moon cakes originally originated from the Tang Dynasty army Zhujie food. During the reign of Tang Gaozu, the general Li Jing won the victory against the Xiongnu and returned triumphantly on August 15.

Legend Wen Tianxiang led the troops to resist gold, there was no grain and grass, the common people learned, they made a lot of round cakes for the soldiers to bring on their bodies, on the day of August 15, the soldiers ate the moon cakes of the people, fought a victory, in order to commemorate the day of August 15 for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the round cake is called the moon cake.