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Ancient Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival moon cake is used as a sacrifice to the food, because the passage of time , moon cake has become a Mid-Autumn Festival food and gifts. The custom of Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cake appeared in the Tang Dynasty , according to "Luo in knowledge " Xizong worked in Mid-Autumn Festival command imperial kitchen with red damask cake gift to the new Division Scholars . The Northern Song Dynasty , the kind of bread is called " palace cake " , popular in the palace , but also spread to the private sector , was commonly known as " cookies " and " moon mission ."
Song writer Su Dongpo once mention: " cookies, such as chewing months, the cakes and jelly ," among the " cookies " that is, the moon cake . And " moon cake " is first seen in the Southern Song Wuzi Mu "Dream Beam recorded" , when the moon cake is just the same as the Ryoka pie pie food , and later evolved into a circle , symbolizing reunion OK .
Ming Tian Rucheng " West Lake in mind" mention: " August 15 that the Mid-Autumn Festival , moon cake with folk to feed , take the meaning of reunion ." , Visible moon cake in the then popular folk . Qing moon cake production methods have been described in detail in books. Namely Qing Yang Guang Fu wrote: " moon cake full dress peach meat , ice cream, cream sugar sweet puzzle ."
According to legend , when the Yuan Dynasty , Han Chinese people under the rule of the Yuan miserable , Zhu Yuanzhang Jiegan anti yuan, but tightly controlled yuan army , rebel message could not be delivered , for Bowen offer advice , give each other in the Mid-Autumn Festival cakes and jam on the inside bar that says " August 15 killing the Tartars ," as the uprising signals.
There is another legend, if you want to anti- Qing Dynasty , it should not be too ostentatious . So some people in Taiwan, anti , use a paper bag in a similar in today's moon cake , tell each other to prepare Fuming . Therefore, there is also a saying , Mid-Autumn Festival originated from Taiwan Ming Dynasty
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