The implication of eating steamed buns in Mid-Autumn Festival

The implication of eating steamed stuffed buns in Mid-Autumn Festival is reunion, bumper harvest and unity.

Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. In this festival, people will eat moon cakes, enjoy the moon, put on lanterns and so on. One of the traditional foods full of rural flavor is steamed stuffed bun. Steamed bread symbolizes reunion. Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional reunion festival in China. No matter where people are, they should go home and spend this moment with their families. Like moon cakes, the shape of steamed stuffed buns gives people a "round" feeling in the wrapped food, which also shows people's desire for "reunion".

Steamed bread also symbolizes harvest and unity. In the past, steamed stuffed bun was one of the stored foods that farmers carried with them when they were working in the fields, and it could be kept for a long time. The size of the harvest at that time is related to the life in the coming year. Therefore, steamed stuffed bun also represents the joy of harvest in people's hearts. In addition, steamed stuffed buns have the characteristics of mixing different fillings, which embodies people's spirit of diversification, unity and mutual assistance.

The custom of Mid-Autumn festival

1, sacrifice to the moon god

The custom of offering sacrifices to the moon in Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the ancient etiquette of "offering sacrifices to the moon at the autumn equinox to welcome the cold". Because the twenty-four solar terms are not synchronized with the lunar calendar, people moved the custom of offering sacrifices to the moon on the autumn equinox to the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month.

Step 2 eat moon cakes

At first, moon cakes were just offerings to worship the moon god. They were originally called moon groups or harvest cakes. The word "moon cake" first appeared in the book Liang Lumeng by Wu, a scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the poem of Su Dongpo, a great poet, "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crispy inside and stuffing outside", which is the embryonic form of moon cakes. Because moon cakes are round and have a beautiful meaning of reunion, eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival has gradually become a necessary food custom for festivals.

3. Enjoy osmanthus and drink osmanthus wine.

People often eat moon cakes, enjoy osmanthus flowers and eat all kinds of foods made of osmanthus flowers, among which cakes and sweets are the most common. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, looking up at osmanthus, smelling osmanthus fragrance and drinking a glass of osmanthus wine in the middle of the month to celebrate the sweetness of the family has become a wonderful enjoyment of the festival.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Mid-Autumn Festival