The small cakes are like chewing the moon, and the presence of crispy and glutinous rice in the cake means praising the deliciousness of the moon cakes. It expresses the poet's best wishes for family reunion and expresses his deep longing for relatives and friends. These two lines of poetry come from Su Shi's "Liu Farewell and Lian Shou". And Su Shi's "Mooncake" also contains these two lines of poetry.
Moon cakes have a long history as offerings to worship the moon god. The term mooncake was first recorded in the "Meng Liang Lu" written by Wu Zimu in the Southern Song Dynasty. Mooncakes have been integrated with the dietary customs of various places, and have developed into Cantonese-style, Jin-style, Beijing-style, Soviet-style, Chaozhou-style, Yunnan-style mooncakes, etc., which are loved by people from all over the north and south of China.
Su Dongpo, a famous scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, left a poem: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crispy and sweet fillings in them."
Su Shi (January 8, 1037 - August 24, 1101) Day), also named Zizhan, also named Hezhong, named Dongpo Jushi, and known as Su Dongpo and Su Xian in the world. Han nationality, a native of Meishan, Meizhou (now part of Meishan City, Sichuan Province) in the Northern Song Dynasty. His ancestral home is Luancheng, Hebei Province. He is a famous writer, calligrapher and painter in the Northern Song Dynasty.