用英文来说月饼的由来

Moon cake symbolizes reunion, the Mid-Autumn Festival will eat the product. There are many stories about the origin of moon cake, but all the stories, the moon cake is to celebrate the victory of the food.

According to legend, Emperor in Tang dynasty years, the great general Li Jing in the Aug. 15 campaign against the Huns victorious, triumphant return. At that time, the Turpan business offering cake to the Tang emperor celebration party. Emperor Li Yuan took the gorgeous cake box, come up with a round cake, laughing that the air moon said: "The cake should be invited Hu toad." Having to eat cake and give the ministers.

Since then, the moon cake production more and more elegant. Su wrote a poem: "little cake, such as chewing on, there are cakes and jelly." Qing Guang Fu wrote: "full moon cake loaded peach meat, ice cream, cream sugar sweet puzzle."

Moon cake to today, a greater variety, taste different from place to place. One Beijing-style, Soviet-style, Cantonese, Chaozhou-style moon cake into five types of Chinese moon cake in. The rise in recent years, the fruit of Hainan moon cake, it is well received by consumers.

Rethinking leisure Qin, "Luo Wen noted," said Tang Xizong in the Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cake, taste, fun, and he heard the new scholars of Qujiang set to open wedding, they ordered the royal kitchen wrapped with a red moon cake class reward for new scholars who . This is the earliest we can see the records on the moon cake.

The Song dynasty, moon cake the "lotus", "Golden Flower", "Hibiscus" and so elegantly called, its production method is more clearly addressed. Has praised the poet Su Shi said, "little cakes, such as chewing on, in cakes and jelly," is crisp pastry, jelly is the sugar, its flavor sweet and Kami can imagine. Song after making moon cake not only pay attention to taste, but also a wide variety of cake surface design patterns and legends of the Moon. Cake surface pattern, initially about the first painting on paper and then paste in the cake surface, after the industry altogether with surface mold is on top of the moon cake.

Also with the full moon-shaped moon cake as a symbol of the full moon 15 happy, people treat it as a holiday food, with its festival month, giving family and friends with it. This is undoubtedly a Han Chinese ethnic Psychology.

Legend of the Yuan dynasty, the Yuan rulers fear of popular resistance to Mongolia, to send a soldier for every 10 surveillance, 10 can only use a kitchen knife, high-handed policy, the people unbearable, they give each other by Mid-Autumn Festival The moon cake machine, put in the moon cake in a Lawan, Lawan in wrapped in paper, paper written vows, the cake bottom also posted a piece of paper do suggest that this co-called anti-Fu China and Mongolia. Wenzhou area called this moon cake "3 Kam" homonym in local dialect means "kill tight."

This is probably outside the regular paste moon cake today, the origin of a piece of paper.

The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival for the Reunion, so there is poetry "loved ones during the festive season, wear cornel but one person" and other verses, that is, to the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone looked forward to reunion. If someone in the field can come from overseas or the family reunion, the increasing feeling of longing, which is composed of family units in the community with the characteristics, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the concentrated expression of this feature.

Chinese history is an agricultural country, Mid-Autumn Festival Fruitful legitimate agricultural harvest season, so in rural areas using the "line-kui" worship of the vulgar, the so-called Mid-Autumn Festival to eat sweet potatoes, taro, both of which block root crops, its huge, round shape, the meaning of a symbol of good harvest and successful. The moon cake gift between friends and family, is also a symbol of dignity, the meaning of reunion.

Mid-Autumn Festival night, the family sitting around, bright, or on drinking, eating moon cake or tea to help spirited and talk eloquently, is also one of the pleasures of life. So, no moon to eat moon cake, moon cake is not a no Mid-Autumn Festival Mid-Autumn Festival and moon cake is so closely linked to essential. The origin of this custom of, there are different views.

It is said that Emperor in Tang Takenori years, the border bandit violated its border. Li Jing Shuai Shi war and victory, in the Mid-Autumn Festival triumph, celebrating the night inside and outside of Chang'an, the Tibetan people when offered cake celebration party, emperor remove the round moon laughed and said finger cake : "should be invited Hu toad cake." dispensed subsequent ministers of taste, eat moon cake moon was then the custom form. Second, that the Northern Mid-Autumn Festival to climb ascends the building when the first see the moon faster, and then on the ceremony held at worship, offerings are round cakes, according to "Yanjing remember moon cake," saying: "to for the moon cake, everywhere and recent large scale who I, the shape of painted moon toad, have completed the food offerings were. " This is the Mid-Autumn Song eat moon cake of custom.

Or that the Yuan dynasty, rulers adopted a "three domestic one dollar, five million for a food," the brutal rule of oppression and a loss for organizations, peasant uprising, a special big round cake, hidden inside the note, agreed on August 15 night uprising, the successful results of the uprising to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty the establishment of the Ming dynasty, after the custom of Mid-Autumn moon cake eating more popular.

In short, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, moon and eating moon cake of custom, long time, ages and then continuously add new content to enrich the rich, traditional festivals, spread so far, as powerful as ever.