The Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the Moon Worship Festival, the Moon Festival and the Reunion Festival. It is one of the traditional Chinese folk festivals. The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month of each year. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as worshipping the moon, admiring the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, admiring osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine. These traditional customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival have been passed down till today. When the Mid-Autumn Festival comes, people return to their hometowns to reunite with their loved ones. Family members will gather together and eat moon cakes.

The Mid-Autumn Festival began to prevail in the Song Dynasty. It is a synthesis of autumn seasonal customs, including festival factors, and most of them have ancient origins. The Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes the reunion of family members and it has become a rich and precious cultural heritage. The Mid-Autumn Festival, the Spring Festival, the Ching Ming Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival are called China's four traditional festivals. Influenced by Chinese culture, some overseas Chinese in East Asia and Southeast Asia also celebrate this festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival was officially recognized as a national holiday in the Tang Dynasty. The custom of admiring the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival was extremely prosperous in Chang'an during the Tang Dynasty. Many famous poets of the Tang Dynasty wrote a lot of famous poems related to the Mid-Autumn Festival. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has circulated many mythological stories, such as Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang cutting the laurel tree, and jade rabbit pounding medicine. These myths make the Mid-Autumn Festival full of romance.

It is said that on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is the closest to the earth, and the moon is the largest, roundest and brightest, so there has been a custom of admiring the moon since ancient times. Since osmanthus blossoms most vigorously in autumn, people will also appreciate osmanthus during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and use osmanthus to make various foods, such as osmanthus cake, osmanthus sugar and so on. In addition, osmanthus is also used to make wine.

Due to the differences in geographic location and climate, people in different places have different eating habits. Therefore, there are many types and flavors of moon cakes. You can choose any one you like. Mooncakes are mainly divided into four main schools: Cantonese style, Su style, Beijing style and Dian style. There are many flavors of mooncakes, which can be divided into sweet, salty, salty and sweet, and spicy. Moon cakes are divided into osmanthus, plum dried vegetables, five kernels, red bean paste, rose, lotus paste, rock sugar, ginkgo, meat floss, black sesame, ham moon cake, egg yolk moon cake, etc.