As every Chinese holiday is accompanied by some sort of special food, on the Moon Festival, people eat moon cakes, a kind of cookie with fillings of sugar, fat, sesame, walnut, the yoke of preserved eggs, ham or other ingredients. In Chinese fairy tales, there live on the moon the fairy Chang E , a wood cutter named Wu Gang and a jade rabbit which is Chang E's pet . In the old days, people paid respect to the fairy Chang E and her pet the jade rabbit. The custom of paying homage to the fairy and rabbit is gone,but moon cakes are showing improvement every year. There are now hundreds of varieties a month before the arrival of the Moon Festival.
Some moon cakes are of very high quality and very delicious.