“Mooncake” Festive dessert with a long history
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“Mooncake” Festive dessert with a long history
Mooncake
It is an item used for making offerings to the moon in this festival. The shape of the dessert is round. Mooncake is a cake made from kneaded dough pressed with various patterns. The dough is then baked and surface is coated with syrup. The inside contains various fillings, most of which are wheat and grains. But now it has been modified and fillings are sometimes different meat types.
Last of Yuan Dynasty
The Hans were oppressively ruled by the Mongols. When they wanted to rebel, they put letters in the dessert and distributed it to every house. The message in the letters were to rebel that night at 3 am to kill the Mongol soldiers together. This brought about the independence of the Han people. It then became a tradition to eat mooncakes and pay homage until present day.