Sales of traditional gift in waning phase
By Xu Junqian in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2013-08-29 07:12
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A supermarket counter offers a variety of mooncakes in Suzhou, Jiangsu province. It is estimated that 280,000 tons of mooncakes will be baked this year. Li Junfeng / For China Daily |
There's a famous Chinese poem that's widely quoted during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Loosely translated, it says that humans experience sorrow and joy, meet and depart, as the moon waxes and wanes, on days gloomy or shiny.
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