Traditional culture contained in moon cakes

The traditional culture contained in moon cakes is as follows:

1. Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important family reunion festivals in China, and moon cakes are the traditional food of Mid-Autumn Festival. The circle of moon cakes represents reunion and completeness. People usually eat moon cakes with their families in the Mid-Autumn Festival to express their treasure for their families and their good wishes for reunion.

2. Worship the gods and ancestors: In the traditional culture of China, the moon is regarded as a mysterious symbol and endowed with many myths and legends. Therefore, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, people will make sacrifices to the moon god to show their respect for their ancestors and gods. As one of the sacrifices, moon cakes are dedicated to the moon god, but also to show respect and pray for ancestors.

3. Cultural inheritance: The skills and modeling of making moon cakes contain elements of China traditional culture. The patterns and colors of moon cakes are often closely related to the traditional aesthetic taste and cultural symbols in China. By making and tasting moon cakes, people can inherit and carry forward China's traditional culture and maintain cultural continuity and sense of identity.

4. Social etiquette: Sending moon cakes is also a social etiquette. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, people will give moon cakes to each other to express their blessings and enhance friendship. As a gift, moon cakes are also carriers of love, gratitude and respect, and are one of the important ways to maintain interpersonal relationships.

Taboo of Mid-Autumn Festival:

1, don't throw moon cakes around: During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people will eat moon cakes, but don't throw them around. Because moon cakes are sacrifices to the moon, if you throw them around at will, it will disturb the moon god, thus affecting the effect of moon sacrifices. At the same time, littering moon cakes will also pollute the environment.

2. Don't cut your hair in the moonlight: Don't cut your hair in the moonlight during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Because the moon is round, representing integrity and reunion, and cutting hair represents breaking and scattering, people will keep their hair intact on a full moon night.

3. Don't break things: During the Mid-Autumn Festival, don't break things, especially fragile things such as mirrors and glass. Because the damage of these items will bring bad atmosphere and destroy the peaceful atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival. If something is broken, it needs to be cleaned and repaired in time.

4. Don't wear red clothes: Don't wear red clothes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Because red is the color of the moon god, it will disturb the moon god, thus affecting the effect of offering sacrifices to the moon. At the same time, red will also bring violence and adverse effects to people, which is not conducive to the harmonious atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival.