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of friends and family and are an indispensable part of the offerings made to the Earth God. According to popular belief, the custom of eating moon cakes began in the late Yuan dynast.
As the story goes, the Han people of that time resented the Mongol rule
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of the Yuan regime and revolutionaries, led by Zhu Yuanzhang, plotted to usurp the throne. Zhu needed to find a way of uniting the people to revolt on the same day without letting the Mongol rulers learn of the plan. Zhu's close advisor, Liu Bowen, finally came up with a brilliant idea. A rumor was spread that a plague was ravaging the land and that only by eating a special moon cake distributed by the revolutionaries could the disaster be prevented. The moon cakes were then distributed only to the Han people, who found, the message "Revolt on the fifteenth of the eighth moon." Thus informed, the people rose together on the designated day to overthrow the Yuan, and since that time moon cakes have become an integral part of the Mid Autumn Festival.
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