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Symbolic
food plays a crucial role in
celebrations throughout the Lunar
calendar. |
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Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year represents new
beginnings. Richly flavoured
cakes, called nin go, are
extremely popular during this
time because to the Chinese they
represent success. Nin in
Cantonese means "year" and go,
"high", so to eat these
foretells a successful year
ahead. Lotus seeds in a sweet
soup, called lin chi, is
also popular. It is offered to
newly married couples because
the name, lin chi means
"every year a son", urging
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Dragon Boat Festival
Entwined in the mythology of the
Dragon Boat Festival is
zongzi, a tasty glutinous
rice dumpling. Some believe that
when poet Qu Yuan committed
suicide in 278 BC by jumping in
a river, locals threw rice into
the river as a sacrifice to
their dead hero, and to nourish
his spirit. In a dream, the poet
revealed the fish were eating
the rice and requested it be
bundled and wrapped in silk to
protect it. In another version,
the rice packets were meant for
the fish, in an effort to keep
them from devouring Qu Yuan's
body.
There are many different types
of zongzi. Hong Kong's
favourite dumpling features pork
soaked in soy sauce or bean
paste in the middle of the
glutinous rice. Zongzi
come in many shapes, but are
most commonly triangular or
pyramid shaped. |
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Mid-Autumn
Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known
as the Moon Festival, is held on the
fifteenth day of the eighth month of
the lunar calendar, when the moon is
at its maximum brightness for the
entire year. These mooncakes can be
found in any bakery before the
festival in all shapes and sizes.
They may be filled with an
assortment of ingredients including
dates, nuts, lotus seed paste, bean
paste and even pork or Chinese
sausages. |
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