Why do people in Fuqing eat mooncakes on Mid-Autumn Festival?

It is a custom for Fuqing people to eat mooncake on Mid-Autumn Festival, because the shape of mooncake is round and round, and it is eaten by the whole family, so it symbolizes the reunion and harmony, and it is a must-eat on the day of Mid-Autumn Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes are said to have begun in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the majority of people in the Central Plains could not bear the cruel rule of the Yuan Dynasty ruling class and rose up against the Yuan. Zhu Yuanzhang united various resistance forces to prepare for the uprising. However, the officials and soldiers of the imperial court searched very closely and it was very difficult to pass the news. Liu Bo Wen, the military advisor, came up with a plan, ordering his subordinates to hide a note with the words "Uprising on the 15th of August" inside a cake, and then sent his men to send it to the rebel armies around the country, informing them that they would rise up on the night of the 15th of August to respond to the revolt. On the day of the uprising, all the rebel armies responded together, and the rebel army was like a prairie fire.　Soon, Xu Da captured the Yuan capital and the uprising was successful. When the news came, Zhu Yuanzhang was so happy that he hurriedly sent down an order to let all the generals and soldiers have fun with the people in the coming Mid-Autumn Festival, and rewarded the ministers with "moon cakes", which had been used to secretly deliver messages during the uprising, as festive cakes. Since then, "moon cake" production is more and more fine, more varieties, as large as a disk, become a gift of goodies. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the custom of eating mooncakes has been spread in the folklore. Some places also formed a lot of special mid-autumn custom.

Mooncakes symbolize reunion and should also be the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty about the moon cake and Mid-Autumn Festival folklore information, should be able to see the moon cake meaning reunion of the historical trajectory: Mid-Autumn Festival moon festival after the sacrifice, the whole family are sitting around together to share the moon cake and moon fruit (offerings). Because the moon is round, the cake is also round, and is shared by the family to eat, so gradually formed a moon cake on behalf of the family reunion symbol.