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Everyone is busy as the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches. The supermarket is brimming with different mooncakes, each one colourfully packaged in a dizzying variety of different shapes, and there is a strong desire to try them all. However, the price tag is intimidating to look at. Yes, the day is getting closer. The elderly, elders and family members receive moon cakes from me every year, but these days they are flashy and pricey, which makes people either adore them or despise them. In 2016, I first began baking mooncakes. The rising cost of mooncakes year after year is what prompted me to start learning how to make them. But what we paid for was a gorgeously wrapped gift box filled with incredibly delicious and preservative-filled mooncakes. You might think twice about eating them if you look at the long expiration date on the packaging. The lovely gift box will be donated to MR BIN (the recycle bin) when the mooncakes have been consumed. What a heartache!! Now, I made my own filli

  The International Dragon Boat Race's launching ceremony was recently featured in the papers, and it was only then that I realized the Dragon Boat Festival was approaching. Worship, rice dumpling wrapping, and dragon boat rowing are all part of the Dragon Boat Festival. Of course, we must not forget that this event is also held to commemorate the sentiments of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. I hope that this event goes off without a hitch and that the competing teams are well preparing for the battle to get a higher outcome! Women, on the other hand, are busy at home wrapping sticky rice dumplings (zongzi).  When the Dragon Boat Festival approaches each year, markets and shops begin to sell ingredients for wrapping dumplings, such as bamboo leaves and strings, sticky rice, shiitake mushrooms, chestnuts, and dried shrimps, and so on. These ingredients are available on weekdays, but shortly before the Dragon Boat Festival, they will be the major products displayed prominently in the