The customs of ancient north and south are different, so are the customs of different places. The existing written records about appreciating the moon in Mid-Autumn Festival were first seen in the Tang Dynasty. "Luo Zhong's Experience" once recorded: On the Mid-Autumn Festival, the new scholar gave a banquet in Qujiang, and Tang Xizong gave the scholar a moon cake. Ancient moon cakes were eaten as sacrifices in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and their real origin date is unknown.
The word "moon cake" first appeared in the documents of the Southern Song Dynasty. It is said that the custom of eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Tang Dynasty, was popular in the court in the Northern Song Dynasty, and then spread among the people. By the Ming dynasty, it had become a common dietary custom of the whole people.
In the Ming Dynasty, eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival gradually spread among the people. At that time, ingenious bakers printed the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon's fairy tales on moon cakes as food art drawings, making moon cakes a necessary food for Mid-Autumn Festival. In the court, moon cakes have also become a common food. For example, in Ming History and Gods, the emperor sent mooncakes to ministers ten times.
Classification of moon cakes:
1, French moon cake: it is a non-traditional moon cake made by combining China moon cake culture and French pastry technology. There are many flavors such as cheese, chocolate hazelnut, strawberry, blueberry, cranberry, cherry, etc. The taste is mellow and delicious, soft and delicate, similar to that of French West Point such as cupcakes.
2, ice-covered moon cakes: The feature is that the cake skin does not need to be baked, and it is eaten after freezing. The epidermis is mainly transparent ivory, but also purple, green, red, yellow and other colors. The taste is different, the appearance is harmonious and interesting.
3. Ice cream moon cake: It is completely made of ice cream, but the mold of moon cake is used. August 15 is the Mid-Autumn Festival, but the heat has not been completely removed. It is delicious and cool, and it is also a favorite choice of many consumers.
4. Fruit and vegetable moon cakes: The characteristics are that the fillings are mainly fruits and vegetables, with soft fillings and different tastes. The fillings are cantaloupe, pineapple, litchi, strawberry, wax gourd, taro, dark plum, orange and so on. And fruit juice or jam, so it has a fresh and sweet taste.
5. Seafood moon cakes: They are relatively expensive moon cakes, including abalone, shark's fin, laver, lei Zhu and so on. It tastes slightly salty and is famous for its sweetness.
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