I don't think about the Mid-Autumn Festival on weekdays, but I miss you for a Mid-Autumn Festival meal.

The answer is moon cakes. According to the riddle: "I don't miss you in the Mid-Autumn Festival on weekdays", we know that this kind of food will appear in the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to the traditional custom in China, we will eat moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival, so we can guess that the answer is moon cakes.

Moon cake is one of the traditional Chinese cakes with a long history and a custom of Mid-Autumn Festival. Moon cakes are round and shared by the whole family, symbolizing reunion and harmony. Ancient moon cakes were eaten as sacrifices in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The origin of moon cakes

Moon cakes are offerings to worship the moon god in the ancient Mid-Autumn Festival, and they have been handed down from time to time, forming the custom of eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Moon cakes have a long history in China. According to historical records, as early as the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, there was a kind of "Taishi cake" to commemorate Taishi Wenzhong, the "ancestor" of China moon cakes. Zhang Qian introduced sesame seeds and walnuts to the Western Regions in Han Dynasty, which added auxiliary materials for making moon cakes. At this time, a round cake filled with walnuts appeared, which was called "Hu cake".