The full moon is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in my country. 

So do you know the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival?

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from people's worship of the moon. China is an ancient agricultural country.

The ancients have long observed that the movement of the moon has a lot to do with agricultural production and seasonal changes. Therefore, worshiping the moon has become an important sacrificial activity to pray for the country's long-term stability. According to the interpretation of the Chinese calendar, the eighth month of the lunar calendar falls in the seventh, eighth, and ninth three months, which is called Zhongqiu, and the fifteenth of the eighth month is also in the middle of autumn, so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival".

In the old Mid-Autumn Festival, there were customs such as viewing the moon, worshipping the moon, drinking reunion wine, and eating moon cakes. During the festive season, the family gathers together to admire the moon, drink alcohol, and eat moon cakes to express blessings and festive reunion. 

The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Tang Dynasty. The Mid-Autumn Festival's affair is to admire the moon, and there are rumors that Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty visited the Moon Palace.

In the Song Dynasty, moon cakes were listed as festivals and have been passed down to this day.

Since the Ming Dynasty, many records have been about eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Moon cakes are used to worship the moon and as gifts, which are popular among the people.

In the Qing Dynasty, the court life of the Qing rulers followed the Ming system. Every time they met at the Mid-Autumn Festival, they made moon cakes. To suit the eating habits of the ethnic group, special varieties such as cream are mixed into the fillings of Qing Palace moon cakes.

When the Mid-Autumn Festival arrives, in addition to eating moon cakes, some regions also have their festive foods to add to the festive atmosphere. For example, in the area of Xi'an, Shaanxi, every Mid-Autumn Festival, every local family makes buns, and the whole family eats one bun, which is called the "Reunion bun". In the Dongtai area of Jiangsu Province, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the lotus root is used as a cake, wrapped with minced meat, coated with wheat shavings, and fried in a frying pan, which is called lotus root cake.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are many interesting customs in various places. In some areas in the northeast, people pick grapes, pears, and other fruits to sacrifice to the moon; in some areas in Shaanxi, people enjoy osmanthus, boating, mountain climbing, and eating watermelon at night; pond fish must be eaten in Wuyuan, Anhui; roast duck or salted duck in Nanjing, Jiangsu; Kunming, Yunnan Every household must make "family big moon cakes", and then eat them one by one; small buns are eaten in Tai'an, Shandong; people in Wujin, Jiangsu eat sweet taro in the morning. Some ethnic minorities are even more solemn. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Gelao people slaughter a bull together in the whole village, take out the heart of the bull and keep it to sacrifice to ancestors on the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and share the beef. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Koreans climbed up on the "moon-gazing frame" by several seniors with high morals and good luck to see the moon first. Finally, the "Mochizuki" was lit, and people around the fire played the flute and suona, beat long drums and gongs, and sang and danced until late at night. 

Many families in Taiwan set up a table in the courtyard to offer fruits and moon cakes to the moon on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as "worshiping the moon mother". After the festival, the whole family eats moon cakes and admires the moon. 

Bean Paste Mooncake

Su style moon cake

Flower Mooncake

Cantonese style moon cake

Lantern

Put lotus lamp

Put kongming lanterns

Enjoy the moon

With the development of the times, there are more and more types of moon cakes, including more than 100 kinds of moon cakes, such as Suzhou style, Cantonese style, Beijing style, Chao style, and Yunnan style. There are many kinds of moon cake fillings, such as bean paste, peanuts, minced fruits, Jinhua ham, etc. There are also various patterns engraved on the crust, and the appearance and taste are even more distinctive, and the craftsmanship is becoming more and more sophisticated.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wafangdian Jinrui Bearing wishes all friends a reunion, good health, and prosperous business.