Why do we eat mooncakes at Mid-Autumn Festival?

Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional custom in China to eat mooncakes, the symbol of eating mooncakes is family reunion, family happiness, reflecting people's good wishes for family reunion. West Lake Excursions will be recorded: "August 15 this is called the Mid-Autumn Festival, folk to the moon cakes to leave, take the meaning of family reunion"

The Northern Song Dynasty, the court popular Mid-Autumn Festival to eat a kind of "Palace cake". Slowly spread to the people, the people called this cake "small cake", "moon ball". Su Dongpo wrote a poem: "small cakes like chewing the moon, in the pastry and syrup."

During the Tang Dynasty, there were already pastry chefs specializing in the production of mooncakes in the private sector. And also has become the capital of Chang'an Street, well-known cakes, but not yet become the custom of eating moon cakes at Mid-Autumn Festival, according to legend, in the night of Mid-Autumn Festival one year, Yang Guifei watching the bright moon, saw the Hu cake and the moon's shape is very similar to the mouth, and then out of the mouth of "moon cake", and since then, "moon cake" of the name has begun to spread in the folklore.

The Mid-Autumn Festival in ancient China already had, in ancient times, people in the Mid-Autumn Festival on the day of the full moon on the custom of eating mooncakes, mooncakes are round, meaning reunion, so people use mooncakes to worship the moon God to pray for happiness and peace, and then people slowly formed the Mid-Autumn Festival evening to enjoy the moon to eat mooncakes, and Mid-Autumn Festival to send mooncakes of the custom, in the Yuan Dynasty, when the formation of this habit.