They are originally from Guangdong and Guangxi provinces. Often meticulously decorated, the Beijing-style mooncake has the most popular fillings including wisteria blossom and the mountain hawthorn flavors. One has a light, foamy dough while the other has a flaky white dough. ![]() The most known ones among traditional mooncake are:īeijing-style mooncakes are divided into 2 classifications. There are numerous variants of the mooncake in each region of China. To destroy the message, the mooncake pieces were eaten. The message was solved using this 16-piece puzzle. To understand the message, each mooncake had to be cut into four parts. In this method, the message was printed on the mooncake, a package of four cakes was prepared, and the words on them became a simple puzzle. There was also another way of communication using mooncakes. They had planned to put a secret message inside the quickly distributed mooncakes for the Han Chinese revolt on the Mid-Autumn Festival, the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. The rumor said that people who eat this mooncake would revive at once and also gain special powers. They spread a rumor about a fatal plague and the only way to stop it, which was eating special mooncakes. Generally, the tale is about a plan, probably devised by Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen, his advisor. ![]() At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Ming revolutionaries used Mooncakes in their effort to defeat the Mongol occupiers of China. ![]() There is a folk story about how mooncakes were used as means for smuggling messages, which overthrew the Mongols.
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