Why are Korean muffins half-moon shaped?

Matsuzaka is a traditional Korean holiday snack, which is a half-moon glutinous rice cake with sesame seeds, chestnuts, red beans, black beans, jujube paste and other fillings. When cooking, pine leaves will be spread on the bottom of the steamer to let the elegant fragrance of pine leaves penetrate warmly, so it is named Matsuzaka.

In the past, every Mid-Autumn Festival, my mother-in-law and mother-in-law had to make their own muffins as snacks to worship their ancestors and gods. In the novel of Marketing Strategy Manager of Korea Tourism Organization, autumn is the harvest season, and beans are taken out of the soil to make cakes and then presented to God, which represents people's most sincere gratitude; As for the appearance of the half moon, it shows reverence for the moon. The full moon is bright, half moon and half cloudy, but every process from half moon to full moon is full of hope. "Eating muffins is also a feeling of looking forward to recalling hope." Neither round nor cloudy is the natural rhythm, and humanistic homesickness may be like the fragrance of pine leaves on the substrate.

"When I see muffins, I think of festivals. Every Mid-Autumn Festival or Chinese New Year, every household will smell the smell of glutinous rice, and neighbors will exchange it to see who cooks delicious food, as if in a competition. That's because people used to think that if a woman's muffins are more delicious, it means that she has a better chance to choose a good husband. Park Lena was born in Busan and now works in Seoul. She recalls that when she was a child, her grandmother took her, her sister and cousins to make muffins. However, a few people made muffins while playing and were kneaded into rabbits, stars and pigs. Grandma put them in a steamer and steamed them together. She didn't mind at all. When the rice was delicious and the lid was lifted, everyone ate it at once.

"Super ... super delicious, the taste is hard to describe. I have never eaten a better muffin than grandma's since I was a child! " She described it in an exaggerated way. In addition to praying, muffins also represent the taste of every family; Although life is busy now, muffins sold in the market have all kinds of flavors, and there are few opportunities to make them yourself, but enjoying this sweet heart with my family during the Mid-Autumn Festival remains unchanged. This also reminds me of the time when I was a child, rubbing glutinous rice balls and pressing rice cakes with my grandmother. This is an eternal moment.