Why do people eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival?
The custom of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes family reunion and harmony;Mooncake is one of the most famous traditional Chinese pastries, and it is a customary food for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mooncakes are round and are shared by the whole family, symbolizing family reunion and harmony. It represents the meaning of family reunion. After the Mid-Autumn Festival's moon worship, the whole family gathers together to share mooncakes and other offerings (offering items for moon worship). Because the moon is round and the mooncake is also round, and it is shared by the whole family, it gradually formed the meaning that mooncakes represent family reunion. In summary, eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, just like eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival and yuanxiao during the Lantern Festival, is a traditional folk custom in China, which embodies people's beautiful emotions.
In ancient times, mooncakes were used as offerings during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is said that the custom of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Tang Dynasty. During the Northern Song Dynasty, it was popular in the imperial court and then spread to the common people. At that time, it was commonly called "small cake" and "moon cake". By the Ming Dynasty, it had become a common dietary custom for all people. Mooncakes have been integrated with local dietary customs, and have developed into various types such as Cantonese, Beijing-style, Suzhou-style, Chaozhou-style, and Yunnan-style, loved by people in different regions of China.
Exact date of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019
September 13, 2019, Friday (the 15th day of the eighth lunar month of the Year of the Pig, 31 days away from the Mid-Autumn Festival in the lunar year 2019);The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in the early Tang Dynasty and became popular in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the traditional Chinese festivals, ranking alongside the Spring Festival. Influenced by Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival for Chinese overseas communities in some countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Since 2008, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national statutory holiday. On May 20, 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has had customs such as moon worship, moon gazing, moon worship, eating mooncakes, admiring osmanthus flowers, and drinking osmanthus wine, which have been passed down and remain popular. The roundness of the moon symbolizes the reunion of people, expressing the longing for hometowns and relatives, and hoping for harvest and happiness, becoming a rich and precious cultural heritage. The Mid-Autumn Festival, along with the Dragon Boat Festival, the Spring Festival, and the Tomb-Sweeping Day, is known as one of the four major traditional Chinese festivals.
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