"Dongsheng, when you come back from the factory at noon, do you want to buy some mooncakes?"
While having breakfast, Jia Zhang was a little dissatisfied that she didn't have mooncakes in the morning. You know, eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival is a custom, and for an old person like her, traditional customs are particularly important.
So, early in the morning, I tried to enlighten him with words.
"Well, I was a little busy these past two days and forgot about it."
Jia Dongsheng drank a mouthful of millet porridge, ate a bite of steamed bun, nodded and said, "After get off work, I will go buy some moon cakes, osmanthus cakes and pumpkins."
"By the way, let's see if there are any ducks. I'm getting a duck. This is a Mid-Autumn Festival custom."
"Uncle, isn't mooncakes the only thing we eat during Mid-Autumn Festival? Why are we eating pumpkin and duck?"
On the side, Banggeng, who has loved studying since this semester, heard what Jia Dongsheng said and asked curiously.
Jia Dongsheng greatly admired Banggeng's love of learning and knowledge. He patted his little head and said with a smile, "Eating pumpkin during the Mid-Autumn Festival is good because autumn is dry and pumpkin can nourish the body."
"But later, because pumpkins ripen around the Mid-Autumn Festival, the round shape of pumpkins came to represent reunion, the same as the meaning of mooncakes."
"As for eating duck, this story goes back a long way. It goes back to the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the Han people wanted to overthrow the rule of the Mongols. At that time, the Han people called the Mongols "Tartars". Because "Tartar" and "duck" sound the same, they also called the Mongols "duck."
"At that time, the Han people set up a plan to overthrow the Mongols. The time for the plan to be implemented was the Mid-Autumn Festival. The name of the plan was called "Eating Duck on Mid-Autumn Festival."
"At the time, it referred to the plan to overthrow the Mongols, but as time went by, the custom of eating duck during the Mid-Autumn Festival became a tradition."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
