What festival is it to eat moon cakes?

Eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival is an essential custom in northern and southern China. Mooncakes symbolize a happy reunion. People regard them as holiday food and use them to worship the moon, give gifts to relatives and friends, and pray for family peace and good luck. Mid-Autumn Festival is developed from the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival.

Sacrificing the moon is a very old custom in China, and it is actually a worship activity of the ancients to the "Moon God". Moon cakes are offerings to worship the moon god in ancient Mid-Autumn Festival. After the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the custom of eating and giving mooncakes on Mid-Autumn Festival became increasingly popular, and mooncakes had a symbolic meaning of "reunion".

Eating moon cakes and enjoying the moon from time to time has become a necessary custom to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in all parts of China. People also regard it as holiday food, and use it to worship the moon and give it to relatives and friends.

When is the Mid-Autumn Festival?

This festival is a national legal holiday, which falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month every year. Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, and like other traditional festivals, it develops slowly. This festival prevailed in the Song Dynasty, and in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was as famous as New Year's Day and became one of the major festivals in China. ?

The legend of Mid-Autumn Festival is very rich, and fairy tales such as the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang cutting Guangxi and Jade Rabbit smashing medicine are widely circulated.