Why do you eat moon cakes instead of rabbits in Mid-Autumn Festival?

Why do you eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival?

It is said that eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty. It originated from a ceremony that our nation worships the moon in Yue Bai. It can be said that it is a manifestation of natural fetishism. The Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon and Jade Rabbit WU GANG were drugged. Chang 'e should regret stealing the elixir. The sky is clear and the night is clear. "What a beautiful poem. It has become one of the ancient and wonderful myths of our nation. It shows people's unusual worship of the moon as a god in the agricultural era. this

Legend has it that in the Tang Dynasty, moon cakes were not called moon cakes. They are called Hu cakes because they are made of walnuts and sesame seeds. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yang Guifei saw the moon and said on a whim that Hu cakes should be called moon cakes. So the naming right of moon cakes was given to Yang Guifei. Of course, this is just a folk explanation. In fact, the earliest written record of moon cakes in China is due to a poem by Su Dongpo: [A small cake is like chewing the moon. There are crisp ones and waxy ones. And let the moon cake have another meaning of reunion. The round moon cake just takes the symbolic meaning of reunion. Wan Li's feelings are bright and bright. Today is the sunny day of the year. A bamboo branch in the Qing Dynasty wrote: "Red and white hairs turn fine. Mid-Autumn Festival gifts are sent everywhere in Beijing. " Beiping folk songs in the Republic of China sang: "The lotus has not been unloaded. It's Mid-Autumn Festival again. Every household cuts moon cakes. Wax paper horse male prostitute Guess the fist order and enjoy the moon. "

So it came naturally and spread to our generation. Moon cakes will naturally be eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It just becomes an inertia, a mechanical existence. Have you forgotten that moon cakes once placed our nation's longing for the god of nature? Now, we just regard moon cakes as a kind of food and gift and treat them in such a pragmatic way, without the pure and beautiful imagination of our ancestors and the simple and awe-inspiring affinity for nature?

Festivals in China are always associated with eating. For example, we should eat jiaozi at Spring Festival and Zongzi at Dragon Boat Festival. This is related to the agricultural society of our country for thousands of years. Festivals are closely related to agricultural solar terms. All festivals are eaten close to the earth. Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are three traditional festivals in China. Eating moon cakes naturally becomes so important. The filling of moon cakes can bloom. But sweetness is the most important thing. In the agricultural society, before sucrose and honey appeared, sweetness was once people's yearning and longing. Ancient philosophers thought it was the two noblest things related to light and the best word related to beauty. So, we are still talking about "sweet life". It is the noblest embodiment to express the best day with sweetness. Therefore, the sweetness of moon cakes is inevitable, main and embodied.

In the Qing Dynasty, a record of Yanjing's age was once said: Mid-Autumn moon cakes. The person who invited Mei Zhai in the past was the first in Kyoto. There is not enough food in other places. "When I was a child, my family lived near the front gatehouse. The Mid-Autumn Festival is naturally to eat moon cakes for Mei Zhai. But it was also good for Meizhai at that time. Other shops are also good. Most of the moon cakes sold are four traditional moon cakes, namely, naturally invited red, fluffy and pulpy. Moss and red silk preserves in the stuffing.

Nowadays people are more and more afraid of sweetness. It is a terrible thing to associate sweetness with hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia and obesity. Nowadays, moon cakes naturally cater to people's new tastes. They dare not be sweet, but they are stuffed with seafood, abalone, shark's fin, bird's nest and even ginseng. It is both fashionable and colorful. It is necessary to cultivate the Eight Diagrams Elixir symbolizing family reunion and life is sweet in the furnace of Laojun. It became a basket. Don't you dare put any stuffing in it. Naturally, I dare to make popular moon cakes into aristocratic top products. Giant or priceless moon cakes costing several thousand yuan or even ten thousand yuan are no longer news. Last year, it was unexpectedly renovated and made into pure titanium moon cakes. It was displayed with the fashion show. Times have changed. Will the folk things in the national tradition disappear? Or do you have to become so commercialized and luxurious? This year, the government issued a mandatory directive prohibiting the luxury packaging of moon cakes, which led to the high price of moon cakes. This is certainly a good thing. It is not a temporary thing to really return the moon cakes to their original positions. In order to make money, moon cakes are still being renovated. We play with ourselves. Whenever we think of such big moon cakes and golden moon cakes in the history of moon cakes in China, we can't help thinking of a moon cake that Puyi gave to Ying Shao, Minister of the Interior. It is two feet long.