According to legend, during the Yuan Dynasty, the broad masses of people in the Central Plains rebelled against the cruel rule of the Mongols. Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to unite the resistance, but Yuan officers and soldiers searched closely and suffered from nothing.
Send a message from. So Liu Bowen came up with a plan, ordered Wang Zhaoguang to make a cake, and hid a note with the words "August 15th Uprising" in the cake. Then they were sent to the uprising troops in various places, informing them to respond to the uprising on the evening of August 15. Therefore, the Yuan Dynasty was overthrown in one fell swoop. To commemorate this achievement, the custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival has been handed down.
No matter which generation moon cakes originated from, it is the wish of people all over the world. The full moon is used to show people's reunion, and the full moon is used to show people's eternal life, pinning their thoughts on their hometown and relatives and praying for a bumper harvest and happiness.
Some people think that since ancient times, eating and sending moon cakes are related to the Mid-Autumn Festival. Actually, it's not. In the early Tang Dynasty, it turned out that only the first day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar was a festival, and there was no fifteenth day. According to legend, Ming Taizu later visited the Moon Palace on the night of August 15th in the Tang Dynasty, so people took August 15th as the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the middle Tang Dynasty, people began to go upstairs to enjoy the moon on the evening of August 15th, when there were no moon cakes. Speaking of moon cakes, it first appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty. However, moon cakes at that time had nothing to do with the Mid-Autumn Festival. At that time, moon cakes were also very different from modern moon cakes, and only appeared in the food market as steamed food.
In the Ming Dynasty, moon cakes were indeed associated with the Mid-Autumn Festival. At that time, there was a kind of moon cakes filled with fruits in Beijing. People made their own moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival and gave them to friends and relatives to express their reunion and congratulations. At that time, moon cakes were irregular in size and shape, with great differences and special names.
For example, in Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province, on the Mid-Autumn Festival, local people have the custom of sitting around and sharing reunion moon cakes. They made many interesting moon cakes, such as crescent moon cakes for men, gourd moon cakes for women, and moon cakes such as "the Monkey King" and "Male Prostitute" specially prepared for teenagers. Many names, and so on. The technology of making moon cakes in Ming Dynasty has reached a high level. At that time, decorative patterns such as "toad and rabbit in the moon" appeared on the cake surface of some moon cakes. Its exquisite design, beautiful composition and exquisite patterns make people enjoy art, which not only fully reflects the ingenuity of mooncake makers, but also reflects the splendid culture of our great Chinese nation.
The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month is a day for people to get together or miss their distant relatives and friends. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xiamen people enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes. There is also a folk activity that Zheng Zheng successfully expelled the Netherlands and recovered the "cake-beating champion" handed down from Taiwan Province Province, which is quite interesting. There are 63 cakes of different sizes in Mid-Autumn Festival. * * * is divided into six kinds, representing the champion, second place, flower detective, scholar, juren and scholar in ancient imperial examinations. Everyone throws six dice into the bowl in turn, and gets the cake according to the number of dice put into the bowl, and finally wins the "No.1 scholar". For more than 300 years, this fun-filled activity has been circulating among Xiamen people, and cake shops and factories in Xiamen will produce this kind of cake in large quantities around the Mid-Autumn Festival.
It is a unique custom for Xiamen people to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival to get together and win the cake Expo. According to legend, when fighting in Xiamen more than 300 years ago, in order to relieve soldiers' worries, encourage and boost morale, and help to expel Dutch colonists and recover Taiwan Province Province, after some discussions, Zheng Department and the staff of the Houzheng Hall stationed at 33-44 Jinhong Headquarters skillfully designed Mid-Autumn Festival cakes, so that all soldiers could fight happily on the cool Mid-Autumn Festival night.
Cake is counted as "meeting", and generally four or five people are suitable for a "meeting". "Hui" cake imitates the imperial examination system, and consists of one Zhuang Yuan cake (the largest), two opposite cakes (the second place), four three red cakes (exploring flowers), eight four-entry cakes (Jinshi), 16 two-lift cakes (lifting people) and 32 one-show cakes. This is the symbol of the ancient four-level imperial examination. Ancient government-level examinations and young students were called scholars; After obtaining the township examination (provincial level), the successful candidate is called a juror; The meeting in the capital does not call Gong Sheng; The court presided over by the emperor himself is called Jinshi, which is divided into three parts: first, the top three, namely the champion, the second place, and the flower exploration, commonly known as the third Ding Jia or the third age; There are more places for dimethyl and more places for top three. Ancient emperors chose the top scholar, considering not only talent and appearance, but also surnames and names. For example, in the 22nd year of Yongle (1424), Sun Zi, the scholar, was the top scholar. Ming Chengzu thought that the combination of harmony was a "violent" word and unlucky. Fall to the third place, and the third place Xing Kuanyi was changed to the champion. This shows that the top scholar is not necessarily a generation of "talented people who look like Pan An", and the third one is a person with real talent and practical learning, so the "three reds" quality of Xiamen cakes is particularly good, which is what it means.
A set of ***63 cakes is based on "three to nine", and three and nine are auspicious numbers for our people.
"Pancake", which originated in Xiamen, has been popular in Taiwan Province Province for more than 300 years with Zheng's successful recovery of Taiwan Province Province.