The legends of Mid-autumn Festival are very rich, some fairy tales widespread such as Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang cutting laurels and the Jade Rabbit pounding medicine.
Mooncake Uprising
According to legend, eating mooncakes on the Mid-autumn Festival night began in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, Large quantities of poor people in the Central Plains uprose against the Yuan Dynasty owing to not bearing its cruel ruling. Zhu Yuanzhang was prepared to revolt against the Yuan imperial court by uniting separate resistance forces.
But because imperial soldiers searched everywhere very tightly and fiercely, it was so difficult for them the convey the uprising message to each force army. Military counselor Liu Bowen came up with a good ploy that a piece of paper with "Lunar August 15 Night Uprising" on it was hidden inside into the pancakes and then separately sent them to the rebels of various areas, which informed them of the immediate response to the uprising of the August 15 night.
That day all uprising armies volunteered to respond to the planned rebels just like a little fire burning up the plain. Soon Yu Da led his army to attack the Yuan capital Da Du(Great Capital) and captured it, so the uprising succeeded in their great victory.
The good news spread here and there, and the emperor was very happy and in a hurry gave the oral instruction that all the generals and soldiers of the whole city celebrated the gorgeous victory with the whole people,and he rewarded the pancakes acting as the passer of the secret transmission as largesses to his courtiers and people.
After that, the mooncades were made more and more delicate and dainty and much more delicious in various kinds and in different sizes as high quality gifts. Since then, it has been in popular spread that people have eaten mooncakes on the nights of Mid-autumn festival.
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