Mid-Autumn night, round on fai bright light, full circle, earth, days last month, "circle the moon" is the Mid-Autumn festival is also called "TuanYuanJie".Annual late, old Beijing to set the altar every family worship months, for "moonlight yards son", namely, carry "lunar star gentleman" and moon dao medicine as the paper.Old Peking man heaviest offering months, reflects "a regular flower, yuan, chang, who often on the wishes of gathers".Since the violence occurs repeatedly, the late qing dynasty, the autumn leaves in a month, is the enterprise beaten 525,000 subscribers clothing sound ", moon, offering more has its special meaning on how much, sincerity is "from hate female, festive. XiuXie heart is coke feet tapping, GaoXiang up burning,".For months, will be in the courtyard, its GongGuo will circle.Watermelon cut in half, the carved image, take "lotus petals painful" meaning, put in GongAn XianPin between both sides, sometimes make, such as apples, ShaGuo, qiu (sea), BinZi hall, pomegranate, grapefruit...Can the rest to complete varieties, harvest, but because of pear with "from" harmonics and don't offer.Moreover, even in the HuaTong planted soybean JiGuanZi flower branches and red bean is dedicated to the moon, MAO JiGuanHua is favour, sotheby's symbol of chang-e practice tree.Moon cake is also the reunion of the symbol, for months without moon cakes, early on in a large moon cakes made with hardwood seat as a magical, large moon cakes is engraved with the beaten before GuangHanGong pattern. The moon medicineGeneral family criterion with lots of brown sugar pie, dip in with hemp fruit on "erythema, highlighted the dimples cake" reunion "self-invited, match again with red" midautumn festival moon cake, by the hostess shakily priest example.For TuanZuo after withdrawal, the whole family in among the flowers next month, cent eats melon mooncakes.Put the big moon cakes or reunion bread, each family member cut each one, if there is not at home, and to set aside a copy.Some families will keep up on dry place otsuki, New Year's eve share again.As for cent eats small cakes, is not limited to the offerings, replaced the holiday gift hole can receive share.So, both the midautumn festival moon cake "self-invited red, white", and have lift pulp, FanMao, guangdong moon cakes...Make reunion to enrich cocktail party.In recent years, the Mid-Autumn festival eating moon cakes, and with moon cakes, fruit exchange gifts of customs still very prosperous.Sells on the market already broke the old pattern of moon cakes, in addition to the traditional red, white moon cakes outside, still have a crisp skin of moon cakes, wide type of moon cakes, su shi moon cakes, wet type moon cakes, improvement of moon cakes, bread MianHua shape varies, stuffing and divided into five benevolence, bean, and crystal sugar, ZaoNi, ham, sweet meat, breed of design and color is increasingly rich. For taking tours of Beijing and China, please visit Forbidden City Tours for details.
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