Mooncake, also known as moon group, harvest cake, reunion cake, etc., is one of the traditional Chinese foods of the Han nationality. Mooncakes were originally used as offerings to the god of the moon.
Offering sacrifices to the moon is an ancient custom in China, which is actually a worship activity of the ancients to the "moon God". Eating moon cakes and enjoying the full moon is an indispensable custom in all parts of China. Mooncakes symbolize happy reunion. People regard them as festival food, offering sacrifices to the moon and presenting them to relatives and friends.
Moon cakes, which symbolize reunion, should have been recorded in writing since the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty related to mooncake and Mid-Autumn Festival folk data, we should be able to see the historical trajectory of mooncake reunion: After the Mid-Autumn Festival Festival, the whole family sat together to eat mooncake moon fruit (moon offering). Because the full moon cake is also round, and the family is divided into eating, so gradually formed the moon cake represents the meaning of family reunion.
