Seven hundred years ago, during the Yuan dynasty, China was ruled by Mongols who had invaded from the north. The Chinese people were very unhappy and desperately wanted to overthrow the Mongols, but they were closely watched and could not talk freely. They secretly planned an attack, wrote their plan on small pieces of paper, and hid the paper slips inside moon cakes. They then passed word of the attack from family to family with the moon cakes.
The Mongols were taken by surprise and the Chinese won the struggle. To this day the moon cakes are credited for the victory.
It's so nice when our history lessons include Home-Ec. :)
Reece mixing the moon cake batter.
Austin kneading the moon cake.
The Mongols were taken by surprise and the Chinese won the struggle. To this day the moon cakes are credited for the victory.
It's so nice when our history lessons include Home-Ec. :)
Reece mixing the moon cake batter.
Austin kneading the moon cake.
All three kids writing out their secret messages, of attack, to put in their moon cakes.
Putting the filling and secret messages in the dough.
5 comments:
Wow! I didn't know that:). I just love the great stuff you guys do with the kids!! And I bet they'll remember this for a long time since it was so hands on!
i could learn a lot from going to school at your house. :) how do i sign up? :)
Hmm, is it possible to have moon cakes made for when granddad and grand mom invade Raleigh in a couple of months? You can leave the secret messages out...I'm not sure that I could digest them very well. And no, we are not the Mongols, we're the Megilligans...the Mongols were from a different part of Ireland!
Granddad
I think so there are still some
where's the picture of daddy eating all the moon cakes? they were good. wish I'd known about the paper first though.
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