about mooncakes and the festival My foreign friend once said the package of a mooncake seems so beautiful and delicate,why does he never find anyone ever eat it. I answered actually it is too dry and most of Chinese don't like to eat mooncakes instead of sending to others as a present,it's just a symbol. When people received an exquisite gift contains mooncakes,the next thing they would do is sent it to friends without opening it. So,when it comes to the Mid-autumn Festival. In ancient China,it was a melancholy day if people couldn't back home,they usually admired the beauty of moon and composed poems,it has been thousand years,we can't remember so many poets,but countless excellent poems about moon and nostalgia are often talked and cited. Nowadays,the Festival is not so elegant,the happiest thing I guess is to stay with family and have a dinner,of course,usually no mooncakes. When people feel a sense of nostalgia,they will look up and gaze at the moon,as if they were together with the most important people to them.