Why eat mooncakes on Mid-Autumn Festival

The traditional food for the Mid-Autumn Festival is mooncakes, which are round and symbolize reunion, reflecting people's good wishes for family reunion. It is said that eating mooncakes at Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Yuan Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang, leading the Han Chinese people to rebel against the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty, agreed to revolt on the 15th of August, and to pass the message by exchanging mooncakes with a note sandwiched between the mooncakes. The custom of eating mooncakes at the Mid-Autumn Festival was then spread among the people. The English spelling is: mooncake. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang finally overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and became the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and although the Qing Dynasty later came to dominate China, people still celebrated this festival to symbolize the overthrow of foreign rule. It is said that in ancient times in China, emperors had the ritual of sacrificing the sun in spring and the moon in fall. In folklore, there is also a custom of worshipping the moon or sacrificing to the moon around every August Mid-Autumn Festival. "The moon is full on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, and the mooncake is fragrant and sweet on the mid-autumn festival," says the famous proverb, which describes the custom of eating mooncakes on the night of the mid-autumn festival in the city and the countryside. Mooncakes were initially used as offerings to the moon god, and then people gradually took the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival moonlight viewing and tasting mooncakes as a symbol of family reunion, and slowly mooncakes became a gift for festivals. Mooncakes were originally used by the Tang Dynasty to celebrate the victory of the army. During the reign of Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, General Li Jing was victorious in his conquest of the Xiongnu, and returned in triumph on August 15th. At that time, some Turpanese merchants offered mooncakes to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty to celebrate the victory. Li Yuan, the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty, took the gorgeous cake box, took out the cake, pointed to the bright moon in the sky with a smile and said: "I should invite the toad with the Hu cake". After saying this, he distributed the cakes to his ministers to eat together. Wu Zimu of the Southern Song Dynasty, "Dream Leung Records" book, there has been the word "mooncake", but on the Mid-Autumn Festival to taste the moon, eat mooncake description, is the Ming Dynasty, "West Lake Excursion Zhi Hui" only recorded: "August 15 is called Mid-Autumn Festival, the folk to the mooncake each other, take the reunion of the meaning of the". By the Qing Dynasty, the record of mooncakes is more and more, and the production is more and more fine I am very attentive to answer, please add points

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