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What is the significance of eating moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival?

Eating moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival can deepen the atmosphere of reunion. Mid-Autumn Festival is also called Reunion Festival. Because the fifteenth day of each month is the roundest, and the autumn is crisp on August fifteenth, and the moon is the brightest at night. ?

On this night, every family puts the roundest fruit and food, such as watermelon and moon cakes, on the table in the yard to celebrate the full moon, also known as the full moon. For good luck, people should eat some moon cakes to celebrate the reunion after the moon festival. ?

It is said that in the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols ruled the Han people, being cruel and heartless, and the people were poor. Where there is oppression, there is resistance, so there is the Red Scarf Army, the beggar leader Zhu Yuanzhang, and the peasant uprising under Zhu's leadership.

The day of victory happened to be August 15, and the tool used to deliver letters was the small round cake with a trap. And the instructions of the uprising are hidden in the trap.