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		<title>Giving Thanks with Mooncakes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you are Zhu Yuanzhang living in the 14th century, and are of the Han tribe of China.  You are tired of  living under an oppressive Mongolian overload of the Yuan Dynasty, and desperate to overthrow this ruler.  You hatch upon a brilliant plot to unite your people to rise against the conquerers.  You receive permission to honor the leader through exchanging gifts with family and friends.  These &#8220;gifts&#8221; were round mooncakes, or message cakes, distributed only to the Han people.  When your fellow citizens cut into the Moon cake, they found your message &#8220;Revolt on the fifteenth of the eighth moon&#8221; &#8211; and they did. But wait, there is another theory to that vital transfer of information for this story: The secret message was imprinted in the surface of mooncakes as a simple puzzle or mosaic. To read the encrypted message, each of the four mooncakes packaged together must be cut into 4 parts each. The 16 pieces of mooncake, were then be pieced together in a manner that the secret messages could be read. The pieces of mooncake are then eaten to destroy the message.  Very clever!  These days, that writing we see on top is less revolutionary; [...]]]></description>
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