Happy Mid-Autumn Festival

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Do you know the Mid-Autumn Festival in China?

The Mid-Autumn Festival is the second most solemn festival in China after the Spring Festival. Its name is to celebrate the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, which is always in the middle of autumn in China. This day is also called the Moon Festival, because at this time of the year, the moon is considered to be the roundest and brightest. Chinese people always worship the moon and appreciate the full moon on this day. In Chinese culture, the full moon symbolizes reunion, allowing them to reunite with their families to celebrate. They worshipped the moon together, watched the moon together, had a reunion dinner together, and shared moon cakes to celebrate the reunion.

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as "Moon Cake Festival"

Chinese moon cakes are the representative food of the moon cake festival. It is a round biscuit with various fillings and different artistic patterns on the surface, depicting the legend of the festival and conveying the meaning of auspiciousness. During the festival, people give these biscuits to the moon as sacrifices, eat them as a celebration, and give them to relatives and friends, so as to extend their best wishes.On holiday day, all families eat moon cakes, or more traditionally, share one to celebrate family reunion.

Here, we also want to classify Chinese mooncakes from the perspective of diners:

According to the taste of moon cakes: sweet, salty, salty, sweet, and spicy

Through filling: we can find five nuts, red bean paste, Zhubei paste, black sesame seeds, lotus seed paste, lotus seed paste, egg yolk, meat, ham, and fruit.

According to the crust: the most common is the white crunchy or golden soft crust made of wheat flour. In addition, snow-skin crusts made of cereal rice flour and jelly shells made of jelly powder can also be found in the market.

According to shape: In addition to the most popular round smooth or lace, there are also cute animals, flowers, and other auspicious patterns.

In recent years, more and more creative moon cakes have emerged, including moon cakes made with ice cream, tea, coarse cereal, chocolate, and sugar-free food to meet the needs of different diners.

Why do Chinese people make Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns?

In the Mid-Autumn Festival, besides admiring the moon and eating moon cakes, there is also a very interesting custom in China, which is to light lanterns. In ancient times, lanterns were used as lighting tools, that is, traditional lamps: Nowadays, lanterns have become handicrafts and decorations. People light up Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns to symbolize family reunion and pray for good luck.

Nowadays, lantern viewing and playing with lanterns are still popular among many people, second only to the Lantern Festival. Chinese moon lanterns are very popular in southern China, and there is no large lantern festival like the Lantern Festival. Mooncake Festival lanterns are mainly collected in families and children.