The significance of Wuren moon cake

Wuren moon cake means happy reunion, and its significance is far greater than taste. All kinds of nuts indicate fruitful, harmonious and inclusive.

This kind of moon cake is drum-shaped, with slightly bulging edges, clear patterns and handwriting, correct shape, no skin breakage, no stuffing exposure and sharp edges and corners; The edge is ivory and the bottom is brownish red; It tastes sweet, soft and crisp, and has a variety of nut flavors.

The legend of wuren moon cake

There is also a creation about Wuren moon cakes. It is said that there were ten suns in the sky a long time ago, which baked the earth without grass. The sharpshooter Houyi shot nine suns to save the people. Everyone is grateful for his merits and let the gods in heaven know him. The Queen Mother gave him two pills, telling him and his wife that each of them could take one pill and live forever.

Hou Yi's wife Chang 'e took two pills by mistake. As a result, a figure resembling his wife Chang 'e appeared on the moon, and he realized that his wife had become a moon fairy.

He put Chang 'e's favorite fruits and snacks on the table in the yard, looked at his wife in the distance and missed her sadly. Because the day of Chang 'e Rose happened to be August 15th, the people who were saved by Hou Yi heard about it, and they also made an incense table under the moon, praying that one day Hou Yi could see his wife again.

Later, with the passage of time, sacrificial foods were combined to make moon cakes, which became the earliest five-kernel moon cakes in China. Eating moon cakes in Yue Bai during the Mid-Autumn Festival became a folk custom.