But it was hard to deliver military massage secretly. KATHY CHAN CEPPI: The symbolism of the mooncake, of course, is it's round like the moon. DEL BARCO: The 47-year-old says she always wanted to go to the lunar South Pole as an astronaut. YOULEN CHAN: These are the molds that we use to decorate with. Over the years, she has also covered everything from street gangs to Hollywood, police and prisons, marijuana, immigration, race relations, natural disasters, Latino arts and urban street culture (including hip hop dance, music, and art). In Northern Song Dynasty (960 - 1127 AD), mooncake was called “Court Cake” and was not only popular in the palace but also the folklore. They carried paper lanterns with candles. The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the four most important Chinese festivals. Mooncake history is as long as 3,000 years in China. People celebrate the harvest moon by eating mooncakes and lighting lanterns. And my mother's thinking actually was, people always celebrate with sweets. Traditional Mooncakes in China - 12 Types of Regional Variations. Mandalit del Barco, NPR News. The moon is something she's contemplated since she was a child in the Henan province of central China near the Yellow River. CHAN CEPPI: They started the bakery because they miss the sweets from China. YOULEN CHAN: These are the molds that we use to decorate with. The trays rotate like a carousel, sounding eerie and celestial. And as you can see, it's stamped in Chinese, which I can't read, so I translated it. For a long time in history, mooncakes were used as a sacrifice on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Accuracy and availability may vary. According to a different tale, the traditional mooncakes played a very significant role in helping the Chinese rebellion gain freedom from the Mongol rule at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. On Earth, she married an archer named Houyi, who shot down nine of the ten suns around Earth so they wouldn't burn up the planet. In late Yuan Dynasty, people could not bear the cruel rule of the court. DEL BARCO: Part of the celebration involves lighting up paper lanterns and eating handmade pastries with sweet or savory fillings - mooncakes. It symbolizes family and harmony. She says the chemistry of the moon's frozen water may reveal the age of our planet Earth. Nowadays, Chinese people eat mooncakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and present mooncakes to each other.In recent years, the mooncakes have become more and more elaborate, and there are extremely high-priced mooncakes. You know, all our wedding cake orders got canceled, the quinceaneras, the graduations. 10 Most Popular Mooncake Flavors - Which one do you like? It’s actually meant to represent a secret message. According to mooncake history, eating mooncakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival has become a wide spread custom in the Qing Dynasty, and there are more historical records about mooncakes. Chan's 75-year-old cousin Kathy Chan Ceppi runs the bakery. Her concept of the moon is more scientific these days. LIU: One of my dream for the future is to drink wine on the moon (laughter). Chan, who's 64, was born and raised in LA and remembers his family eating mooncakes in front of altars where they prayed to the moon goddess during the festival. This is an essential event in mooncake history. It is a kind of cookie with various fillings and different artistic patterns on the surface depicting the legends of the festival. The predecessor of mooncake is the Taishi cake in the Shang Dynasty (17th century BC - 1046 BC) and Zhou Dynasty (17th century BC - 256 BC). Many books recorded the making process of mooncake with flour, nuts, sugar and lard, etc. Mooncake history is as long as 3,000 years in China. It is said it is Yang who named the round cake “mooncake”. It's probably much older than Ice Age on Earth. It symbolizes family and harmony. Legend has it that during the Yuan Dynasty mooncakes were used by the Chinese to plan a rebellion against the Mongol government. MANDALIT DEL BARCO, BYLINE: The upcoming Netflix animated musical "Over The Moon" retells the myth of the moon goddess Chang'e. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of Ming, united various resistance forces to prepare for the uprising.
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