parts of the country, such as burning incense(熏香), planting mid-autumn trees, lighting lanterns on towers and fire dragon dances. however, the custom of playing under the moon is not so popular as it used to be nowadays, but it is not less popular to enjoy the bright silver moon. whenever the festival sets in, people will look up at the full silver moon, drinking wine to celebrate their happy life or thinking of their relatives and friends far from home, and extending all of their best wishes to them.

moon cakes

there is this story about the moon-cake. during the yuan dynasty (a.d. 1280-1368) china was ruled by the mongolian people. leaders from the preceding sung dynasty (a.d. 960-1280) were unhappy at submitting to the foreign rule, and set how to coordinate the rebellion without being discovered. the leaders of the rebellion, knowing that the mo[www.xc138.cn]小草范文网on festival was drawing near, ordered the making of special cakes. backed into each moon cake was a message with the outline of the attack. on the night of the moon festival, the rebels successfully attached and overthrew the government. today, moon cakes are eaten to commemorate this legend and was called the moon cake.

for generations, moon cakes have been made with sweet fillings of nuts, mashed red beans, lotus-seed paste or chinese dates(枣子), wrapped in a pastry. sometimes a cooked egg yolk can be found in the middle of the rich tasting dessert. people compare moon cakes to the plum pudding and fruit cakes which are served in the english holiday seasons.

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