What is the origin of eating mooncakes at Mid-Autumn Festival

There are so many traditional cuisines, and the food that can be remembered and passed down to us must be one in a hundred. Mooncakes as the designated food for the Mid-Autumn Festival, delicious needless to say, and mooncakes have a variety of fillings, so people will not have to get tired of the time, so what is the origin of eating mooncakes?

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Legend has it that when Houyi and Chang'e husband and wife were relegated to the folk, the Queen Mother sent a "immortality drug" to Houyi, and then by mistake Chang'e ate, and then Chang'e flew to the sky from the husband and wife heaven and earth are separated.

Miss each other very much, Houyi in Chang'e like the back garden set up incense, on top of the fruits she loves to eat, snacks, Chang'e in the sky to see very sad, then sent a message to Houyi, "tomorrow is the full moon, you make the flour into the shape of a full moon, placed in the northwest direction of the house, and then continuously call my name, three times more time I can go home", the next day, the next day, the next day, I can go home, the next day, the next day, the next day, the next day, the next day. I will be able to go home", the next day Hou Yi set out the moon cakes and called out Chang'e, so that the two were reunited.

Later, the people knew that Chang'e ran to the moon and became immortal, but also have set up incense under the moon moon cakes, like Chang'e prayed for good luck and peace, family reunion, over time, there is a Mid-Autumn Festival to eat the custom of moon cakes.

The origin of the second

Tang Dynasty, Emperor Li Shimin for the conquest of the northern Turkic, pacified its repeated aggression, so that the general Li Jing personally led the Department of the expedition, fighting on the borders, the results of the repeated successes. He returned to the capital in triumph on August 15th. In order to celebrate the victory, the city of Chang'an and the surrounding area fired cannons and played music, and the people and the army partied all night long.

There was a Tubo who came to Chang'an to do business, and specially offered round cakes to the emperor to celebrate the victory. Taizong Li Shimin was delighted, took the gorgeous cake box, took out the colorful cakes, pointing to the bright moon hanging in the sky, said: "Hu cake should be invited toad (i.e., the moon)." Afterwards, the cakes were distributed to the civil and military officials. Since then, the custom of eating mooncakes on Mid-Autumn Day has been passed down.

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The custom of eating mooncakes at the Mid-Autumn Festival is said to have begun in the Yuan Dynasty. It is said that the people of the Central Plains could not bear the cruelty of the ruling class of the Yuan Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang united all the forces of resistance to prepare for the uprising. However, the imperial court officials and soldiers searched very closely, making it very difficult to pass on the news. Liu Bo Wen, the military advisor, came up with a plan. He asked his subordinates to hide the note with "Uprising on the 15th of August" inside a cake, and then sent people to transmit it to the rebel armies in different places. On the day of the uprising, all the rebel armies responded one after another.

Soon, the Yuan Dynasty metropolis was captured. 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" as festive pastries that had been used to secretly deliver the message during the uprising. Since then, the moon cake has become more and more elaborate, with more varieties, and the custom of eating moon cake at Mid-Autumn Festival has gradually spread among the people.

What else do you eat at Mid-Autumn Festival besides mooncakes?

1, eat snails

Snails is the finale of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangdong people, according to information, the custom of eating snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival originated in ancient times, a poor scholar, because there is no money to buy meat over the Mid-Autumn Festival, they touched some snails, snails, back to the cook, while enjoying the moon while eating, snails, commonly known as the Phang Gui, and later, the scholar, then sucked the snails on Mid-Autumn Festival has become the custom.

2, eat duck

Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to eating moon cakes, duck is also one of the indispensable food for Mid-Autumn Festival. In the western region of Sichuan, smoked duck is a must-have Mid-Autumn Festival delicacy. Nantong area favorite eat braised duck or white confit "eight treasures duck". In terms of the season, every year around Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the season when ducks are the most fertile. As the saying goes, "autumn high duck fat", autumn is to meet the early autumn, eating duck and nourishing Yin stomach, lungs, blood, water and swelling effect, very suitable for the body has heat, fire people eat.

3, eat taro

In the Mid-Autumn Festival in many places to eat taro custom, in fact, during the Mid-Autumn Festival is not the best harvest time, but due to taro has a "head of the" harmonic, people in order to get a colorful, hope that the good days have a surplus, so it is to be in the Mid-Autumn Festival when planing a little taro to taste fresh! The. But people around the meaning of eating taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival is different, for example, in the Chaoshan region, farmers are accustomed to taro to worship ancestors.

The above is what I know about the origin of eating mooncakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, partners you are still clear about which origin?