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Top 10 Mid-Autumn Festival foods in China (6)

2013-09-18 14:53 China.org.cn Web Editor: Wang YuXia
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Top 5 Pear

In Mandarin, "pear" is homophonous with "separate," both pronounced as "li." For this reason, eating a pear during Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes the people's wish to avoid separation and implies their desire for reunion.

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