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 material. 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 the moon cakes are showing improvement every year. There are moon cakes, hundreds of varieties of moon cakes on sale a month before the arrival of the Moon Festival this year.
Some moon cakes are of very high quality and very delicious.
An overseas tourist is advised not to miss it if he or she happens to be in China during the Moon Festival.