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Specialty food moon cake is a traditional festival of Han people love, moon cakes are round, but also the family points to eat, harmony symbolizes reunion, the Mid-Autumn Festival this day is will eat the product. ncient eat moon cake was as a sacrifice to the Mid-Autumn Festival. t is said that the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cake in the Tang Dynasty. hen the Northern Song Dynasty, the kind of bread is called "palace cake", popular in the palace, but also spread to the private sector, then commonly known as "cookies" and "Moon mission. The word moon cake was first seen in the Southern Song Wuzi Mu "Dream Liang Lu" In that time the moon cake is Ryoka shaped, and chrysanthemum cake, plum cake exist, and the "four seasons and recent call cord as you like, do not mistake patrons. Visible this time of moon cake, Mid-Autumn Festival is not just eaten. s for the moon cake the origins of the term, has been difficult to trace. ut the famous Song Dynasty scholar Su left "cookies, such as chewing month, in cakes and jelly, the poem, perhaps this is based on the name of the source of moon cake moon cake and practices.a

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