The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival moonlight viewing and eating mooncakes

Moon Appreciation: Tracing the origin of the Mid-Autumn Moon Appreciation, according to the "Chang'an Playing with the Moon Poetry Preface": "Autumn at the time, after the summer first winter; August in the fall, the beginning of the season, the end of the Meng; the fifteenth night, and the moon in the middle. In the sky, the cold and heat are equal, and the moon number is taken, the toad is round."

That is to say, the 15th of August in the middle of August in the fall, so it is said: "Mid-Autumn". Why do people love to enjoy the moon in mid-autumn? There is a poem: "the moon is four times, what things like the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yao Tai Baojian, appropriate to hang the highest head of the Jade Palace; put out the white ho thousands of zhang, scattered as a color of the emptiness. All the images into my eyes, the stars and buckets to avoid the color, the wind and dew to help the secluded."

Eating moon cakes: Mid-Autumn Festival eating moon cakes is said to have begun in the Yuan Dynasty, at that time, the people of the Central Plains can not stand the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang united all the way to the righteous army plans to revolt on the 15th of August, in order to pass on the news, Liu Bowen came up with the writing of the "15th of August to kill Tartars," the note is sandwiched between the moon cakes to give each other to pass on the news! The idea was to give each other mooncakes to pass on the news.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the Mongolian rule and established the Ming Dynasty, and also celebrated with mooncakes to reward his subordinates, and the custom of eating mooncakes at Mid-Autumn Festival was slowly spread among the people.