Was the moon cake eaten on August 15th really invented by Yang Guifei?

It is true that eating moon cakes on August 15th was not invented by Yang Guifei. It was Yang Guifei who changed the original name of mooncake to mooncake, because it was not called mooncake before, and there were other names.

Moon cakes were invented in the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, and Taishi cakes at that time were the predecessors of moon cakes. Only the earliest time to eat moon cakes was in the Tang Dynasty, and they were not eaten until August 15th. Because the Mid-Autumn Festival is very popular in the Tang Dynasty, people will get together to watch the beautiful moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

In addition, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a day of reunion. At this time, families usually get together, and then have a reunion dinner and get together. At that time, moon cakes were not called moon cakes, but Hu cakes. Tang Xuanzong thought this kind of cake was called Hu cake, so when Yang Guifei was with him, Yang Guifei looked up at the bright moon and blurted out moon cakes. Of course, the name of Yang Guifei has always made the name of moon cake applicable to today.

Moon cakes also appeared in the Song Dynasty. At that time, they were called court cakes, which were small cakes that people often ate during the Mid-Autumn Festival. People also call these cakes? Cookies? 、? Moon Group? So it should be the first moon cake invented at that time, so the origin of moon cakes was really not invented by Yang Guifei, but was reflected in the Song Dynasty, earlier than the Tang Dynasty.

Finally, even in the Ming Dynasty, eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival gradually passed down, and at this time it became a fixed custom. Later, people began to give mooncakes to each other in popularity, initially because mooncakes were given to deliver letters, and later to send relatives. At first, moon cakes were gifts to worship the moon god, and finally became a common diet, which was widely circulated in this world.