Traditional Festival Food in China
Festival
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Food
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Spring Festival (Chinese Lunar New Year)
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New Year rice cake, Jiaozi (dumplings)
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Lantern Festival
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sweet rice balls with soup
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Double Ninth Festival (Aged People’s Day)
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chrysanthemum wine, Chongyang cake
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Laba Rice Porridge Festival
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Laba prridge (rice porridge with nuts and dried fruit eaten on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month)
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Double Fifth Festival (Dragon Boat Festival)
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Zongzi (traditional Chinese rice-pudding), realgar liquor
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Mid-autumn Festival
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mooncake
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Qingming Festival (Tomb-sweeping Day)
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Steamed green glutinous rice cake, Chinese date-stuffed cake, fried circinate cake, peach bloom porridge
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