Moon symbolizes reunion, the Mid-Autumn Festival will eat the product. During festivals, night, people also eat more watermelon, fruit reunion fruit, bless his family to live a happy, sweet, peace.

Lunar calendar August 15 is a traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival is also the second largest in China after the Chinese New Year traditional festivals. August 15 exactly in the middle of autumn, so that the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the fall of China’s ancient calendar to the middle of August, the title, “Mid-autumn”, so Mid-Autumn Festival also known as “Mid-autumn Day.”

Answer Ⅱ: Some people say that because the moon is round, symbolizing the full moon in heaven; some that the round moon cakes should be, and the moon, reflecting the aspirations of the people look forward to a better reunion.

private citizens have been circulating in such a story: Yuan Dynasty when the Mongols of the Han people, especially the southern Han Chinese rule is very harsh, the people who simply can not live by. Resistance to the idea of the growth in people’s hearts. Later, a man named Han Shan Tong of people spread around a nursery rhyme: “Shiren an eye, and stirring up the world against the Yellow River”, thus opening a prelude to the uprising against Yuan.

Zhezhi to Hongjin marked the rebels, known as the “red scarves.” A man named Chu Yuan-chang who took part in the Red Turban Rebellion, he a brave soldier, set an illustrious military exploits, the leader of volunteer army is trust him and sent him on his own leadership of local riots. The emperor there, plan to August 15 the day the intifada, in order to prevent the secret leaked out, he did a lot of people round the dim sum, the plan on filling the uprising, the Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes say that they are sent to This meta-search cloud army uprising a success.

Later, the emperor finally overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, when the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Mid-Autumn Festival will be the custom of eating moon cakes come in popular spread.

Editor: Shi Liwei