Why eat moon cakes on Mid Autumn Festival

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Moon cake, originally a kind of offering at the time of sacrificing the moon, later became a gift given by the people to each other. "West Lake Tour records" said: "folk to moon cake phase feed, take the meaning of reunion." Dongpo praised moon cakes as "small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crispy and malt in them". It is said that in ancient China, emperors had a ritual system of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. Why do you eat moon cakes on Mid Autumn Festival.

Why eat moon cakes on Mid Autumn Festival

First, among the people, there is also the custom of worshiping or sacrificing the moon every August. "The moon is round on August 15, and the moon cakes are sweet and fragrant." this proverb tells us the custom of urban and rural people eating moon cakes on the night of the Mid Autumn Festival. At first, moon cakes were used to offer sacrifices to the God of the moon. Later, people gradually took the Mid Autumn Festival to appreciate the moon and taste moon cakes as a symbol of family reunion. Gradually, moon cakes became festival gifts.

Second: the annual Mid Autumn Festival is coming. While we feel happy about it, health problems are also concerned again. Because most moon cakes contain high fat, high caloric components, because maintaining a reasonable diet is the king. I hope it can help you. At the same time, I hope you will live a long and healthy life and the whole family will be happy.

Third: authentic Huamei moon cakes are generally uniform in size, full in circumference, uniform in thickness, clear in pattern, no crack on the surface and no stuffing. Poor quality mooncakes are just the opposite: uneven block size, run sugar dew stuffing serious. From the color point of view, we should choose those moon cakes with golden yellow surface, reddish brown bottom, egg liquid and oil luster on the surface.

matters needing attention

During the Mid Autumn Festival, we should have a proper diet. We should not eat too many moon cakes, especially those with high sugar content and rich energy. Instead, we should pay attention to eating more vegetables and drinking milk every morning, which plays an important role in promoting gastrointestinal digestion and absorption and maintaining the body's nutritional balance.