What is the custom of enjoying the moon in Mid-Autumn Festival?

Moon viewing in Mid-Autumn Festival refers to watching the full moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th of the lunar calendar, which started in Wei and Jin Dynasties and flourished in Tang and Song Dynasties. Legend has it that Chang 'e, as an elixir of life, did not fall into the wrong hands. After eating by mistake, she ascended to the moon.

It happened to be the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. Her husband Hou Yi and the people missed her very much, so they enjoyed the moon and ate moon cakes on this day, hoping that she would come back. Historically, there was indeed a "Chang 'e" in Weifang, Shandong Province in ancient times. She married the leader at that time.

Whenever the Mid-Autumn Festival comes, we can always see people sitting together as a family. Watching the moon, drinking tea and eating moon cakes have become a very common custom. In addition, the Mid-Autumn Festival in Yue Bai is also a very important custom activity.

People in urban and rural areas of China have the custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival. As the saying goes, "August 15th is full, and Mid-Autumn moon cakes are sweet and fragrant". Moon cakes were originally used to worship the moon god, with the word "moon cakes".

It was first seen in Liang Lumeng by Wu in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, it was just a cake-shaped food like Ling Hua cake. Later, people gradually combined the Mid-Autumn Festival with tasting moon cakes, which symbolized family reunion.