古代人们在中秋,都要祭拜月神,祭供过后,将作供品的饼食分吃,沿传下来,已有三千年。那时,江浙一带产生的“太师饼”可以说是我国月饼的祖宗了。张骞通西域后,传入了芝麻,胡桃,为月饼增加了煨料,当时生产出来的圆饼叫胡饼。唐朝时在京城长安就开始有糕饼铺,有从事专业生产的饼师,品种也有了发展。一年,唐玄宗和杨贵妃中秋佳节赏月,在吃糕饼时,唐玄宗嫌胡饼叫法不好听,杨贵妃仰望皎洁的明月,脱口而出“月饼”,从此“月饼”一名就传开来。 有关“月饼”一词的文字记载,据说最早见于南宋吴自牧的《梦梁录》,当时,中秋赏月食月饼之风已很流行。清代富察敦新撰写的《燕京岁时记·月饼》记载:“……至供月,月饼到处绋有,大者尺余,是绘至除夕而食者。谓之团圆 Ancient people in the Mid-Autumn Festival, have to worship the Luna, offering sacrifices, the food will be divided for the food products, along the pass, it has been three thousand years. At that time, the “tomb cake” produced in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province can be regarded as the ancestor of China’s moon cake. Zhang Qian through the Western Regions, the introduction of sesame seeds, walnuts, an increase of simmer for the moon cake, cake was produced at that time called cakes. Chang’an in the capital when the Tang Dynasty began to have pastry shops, specializing in the production of pie division, the varieties have also been developed. One year, Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei Mid-Autumn Festival on the moon, while eating pastry, Tang Xuanzong suspected cake is not good, Yang looks bright and clear moon, blurted out the “moon cake”, from “moon cake” a spread . The text of the word “moon cake” is said to be the earliest recorded in Meng Liang Mu of the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, the lunar moon cakes were very popular in the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the Qing Dynasty, Fu Tadun newly wrote “Yan-year-old Shiji · Mooncake” records: "... ... for the month, the moon cake everywhere, there are large ruler, is painted to the New Year’s Eve and the eater.