What are the benefits and disadvantages of eating mooncakes

No good. Mooncakes inside the sugar, oil, cholesterol content is extremely high, according to analysis, eat a double-yolk white lotus seed paste mooncake, equivalent to eating a plate of corn meat fried rice and a bowl of borscht with a cup of cold milk tea calories. Even in recent years the popular low-sugar mooncakes, may not be healthier than ordinary mooncakes, because low-sugar mooncakes are still very high in oil and fat content. Eating mooncakes with a cup of hot tea is a good choice, tea can absorb the oil inside the mooncake, reducing the probability of food accumulation. Hot Pu-erh tea is especially helpful in breaking down cholesterol, and is a good product for eliminating stagnation. Drinking a cup of hot Pu-erh tea after eating mooncakes is good for digestion. In addition, eating oatmeal and other high-fiber foods can also help digest mooncakes. It is also said that eating mooncakes at Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Yuan Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang led the Han Chinese people to rebel against the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty, and agreed to revolt on August 15, by giving each other mooncakes and placing notes in the mooncakes to pass on the news. The custom of eating mooncakes at the Mid-Autumn Festival then spread among the people. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang finally overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and became the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and although the Qing Dynasty later came to dominate China, people still celebrated this festival, which symbolizes the overthrow of foreign rule. It is said that in ancient times in China, emperors had the ritual of sacrificing the sun in spring and the moon in fall. In folklore, there is also a custom of worshipping the moon or sacrificing to the moon around every August Mid-Autumn Festival. "The moon is full on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, and the mooncake is fragrant and sweet on the mid-autumn festival," says the famous proverb, which describes the custom of eating mooncakes on the night of the mid-autumn festival in the city and the countryside. Mooncakes were initially used as offerings to the moon god, and then people gradually took the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival moonlight viewing and tasting mooncakes as a symbol of family reunion, and slowly mooncakes became a gift for festivals. Mooncakes were originally used by the Tang Dynasty to celebrate the victory of the army. During the reign of Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, General Li Jing was victorious in his conquest of the Xiongnu, and returned in triumph on August 15th. At that time, some Turpanese merchants offered mooncakes to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty to celebrate the victory. Li Yuan, the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty, took the gorgeous cake box, took out the cake, pointed to the bright moon in the sky with a smile and said: "I should invite the toad with the Hu cake". After saying this, he distributed the cakes to his ministers to eat together. Wu Zimu of the Southern Song Dynasty, "Dream Leung Records" book, there has been the word "mooncake", but on the Mid-Autumn Festival to taste the moon, eat mooncakes description, is the Ming Dynasty, "West Lake Excursion Zhi Hui" only recorded: "August 15 is called Mid-Autumn Festival, the folk to the mooncake each other, take the reunion of the meaning of the". To the Qing Dynasty, about the moon cake on the record more up, and the production is more and more fine. Mooncake development to today, more varieties, flavors vary from place to place. Among them, Beijing-style, Suzhou-style, Canton-style, Chao-style moon cakes are widely eaten by people in the north and south of China. Mooncake symbolizes reunion, is the Mid-Autumn Festival must eat. On the night of the festival, people also love to eat some watermelon and other fruits of reunion, praying for the family life is beautiful, sweet and safe. ?6?7