What is the Mid-Autumn Festival？
1 min readEvery year on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month is held the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to the ancient calendar，the eighth lunar month is in the middle of autumn，and the 15th day of the month is in the middle of the month.
On that night，the moon is supposed to be brighter and fuller than in any other month and the moonlight is the most beautiful.In China，a full moon is symbolic of family reunion，so the day is also known as”The Day of Reunion.
What is the origin of moon cakes？
During the Mid-Autumn Festival，people eat moon cakes that are also called“reunion cake”because they are round in shape.People began making moon cakes in the Tang Dynasty，but they became popular in the Song Dynasty，when they were available everywhere as an offering to the moon.Some people ate them after a sacrificial ceremony while others kept them until the New Year Eve.
In the Ming Dynasty，it was a custom for people to exchange moon cakes as a way to express the happiness of a family reunion.In the Qing Dynasty，moon cakes came to be stuffed with walnut paste，similar to these we have now.
