Types of mooncake fillings What fillings do mooncakes have?

1, Cantonese-style moon cakes: (12 kinds) white lotus double yellow, white lotus single yellow, pure white lotus, five kernels, fine sand (red bean paste), jujube paste (jujube paste), coconut, cranberry, lotus root, prune, Hami apricot and charcoal coffee.

2, sugar-free moon cakes: (6 kinds) chestnut, coconut, five kernels, white lotus, black hemp, green tea.

3. Su-style moon cakes (cakes): (4 kinds) rose, fine sand, passion fruit and black hemp.

4, Beijing-style moon cakes: (2 kinds) self-invited red, self-invited white.

5. Yuntui moon cake.

6, snow moon cake: cheese lotus seed paste.

7, improved moon cakes (soft skin, like a cake, with moon cake stuffing inside): (4 kinds) five kernels, fine sand, matcha, grapefruit.

It is said that the custom of eating moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Tang Dynasty. It was popular in the court in the Northern Song Dynasty and later spread among the people. At that time, it was commonly known as "small cake" and "moon group". In the Ming dynasty, it became a common dietary custom of the whole people. Mooncakes have been integrated into local food customs and developed into Cantonese, Beijing, Suzhou, Chaozhou and Yunnan mooncakes, which are deeply loved by people all over the country.