Mid-Autumn Festival Words

Why are mooncakes made with salted egg yolk

inside?

The park is very lively tonight,

with lots of people, and everyone is celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Hello,

I'm Jade, welcome to this episode

of Chinese video.

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival in China,

so today I came to my

grandparents' home,

because during the Mid-Autumn Festival,

everyone in China will go home

to have dinner with their family.

So in this video,

you can see what we do in China during the Mid-Autumn Festival,

what kinds of things we do

to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

You can also learn some Chinese

related to the Mid-Autumn Festival.

This is the kitchen,

the kitchen, my mom,

my mom is cooking,

she's cooking, and she's boiling a chicken right now.

This is a pot,

an iron pot, inside the iron pot,

she's boiling a whole chicken,

a whole chicken.

This is soy sauce chicken,

a dish made with soy sauce

.

There's another pot next to it,

is it making soup?

Making soup, the other pot is making soup.

My mom and my aunt,

they're preparing tonight's dinner.

Tonight's dinner is ready,

this is the dinner my family and I are having tonight,

there are many dishes,

a whole lot of dishes,

one dish, two dishes,

many dishes.

This is a fish,

a fish, one fish,

steamed fish, it's cooked by steaming,

steamed fish.

This is duck meat,

duck meat, it's lemon duck,

this is soy sauce chicken,

soy sauce chicken, chicken cooked with soy sauce,

chicken meat.

And chicken wings, these are chicken wings,

chicken wings.

The big bowl in the middle is soup,

this is a bowl of soup, a very big bowl of soup.

This is pork,

pork, we call it char siu,

char siu and ribs,

this plate is shrimp,

shrimp, it's prepared by blanching,

blanched shrimp.

And greens, greens.

Oh, this plate, I almost forgot to introduce this plate,

this plate is lamb,

lamb.

A very plentiful dinner,

let's eat,

we'll eat and chat with our family,

this is our dinner.

I just finished eating with my family,

after dinner, we're now at a park,

there are lots of people in the park,

because after everyone finishes dinner at home with their families

they all come to the park for a walk,

a walk. That means walking very, very slowly,

taking a walk, and admiring the moon,

admiring the moon. Because it's the Mid-Autumn Festival,

the Mid-Autumn Festival is about the moon,

the moon in the sky is full,

we call that the full moon,

the full moon. So during the Mid-Autumn Festival we admire the moon,

admire the moon, look at the moon,

let's see what activities everyone does during the Mid-Autumn Festival,

such a lively park.

Here is a lantern-riddle guessing activity,

guessing lantern riddles,

these are lanterns,

lanterns, lanterns hung in rows and rows,

lanterns. Guessing lantern riddles is a very

traditional Mid-Autumn Festival game.

There should originally be

slips of paper hanging underneath the lanterns, a piece of paper with a lantern riddle written on it

that people can guess, but now they've all been taken away,

there are no slips of paper left.

So these are lanterns,

very pretty lanterns with a strong Mid-Autumn Festival atmosphere

lanterns.

There are performances in front of this large lawn,

there are performances, and so many people,

so many people are sitting on the lawn watching the performance,

and admiring the moon.

There are some lanterns floating in the sky,

lanterns, lots of lanterns.

A lot of people are sitting on the lawn

eating mooncakes and admiring the moon.

chatting with their families,

it's very much in the Mid-Autumn spirit.

Over here, there are also lots of lights hanging in the trees,

lots of colorful lights.

The moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival is at its fullest and brightest,

so everyone admires the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival,

looking at the moon in the sky,

admiring it.

Tonight's moon is really bright, big, and round.

Another very important thing for the Mid-Autumn Festival,

is the flower lantern.

Flower lanterns. During the Mid-Autumn Festival many people carry

carry flower lanterns, meaning lanterns that light up, are bright,

and come in very pretty shapes.

Children really like buying flower lanterns.

This is a river,

on this river there's a boat,

there's a boat.

On the boat there is

a performance,

someone is dancing, performing.

We're watching from the shore,

lots and lots of people are watching the performance

on the boat.

Now it's time to eat mooncakes,

mooncakes, these are mooncakes,

mooncakes. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, you eat mooncakes.

This is a tin box,

a small tin box,

inside are a few mooncakes.

I'm opening the box now,

opening it.

a tin box lid,

this is the lid, the lid.

There are four mooncakes,

one two three four,

there are four, four mooncakes.

I'll take one out.

This is a mooncake,

a mooncake, it's round,

round. Because the Mid-Autumn Festival is when the moon is full

when the moon is full, a full moon is the moon,

so mooncakes

are also made round like this,

this is a mooncake.

This box of mooncakes of mine,

it's salted egg yolk with lotus seed paste.

salted egg yolk with lotus seed paste,

meaning the mooncake has filling inside,

has filling, and there are many different kinds of mooncakes.

Like this mooncake, it has two salted egg yolks inside,

and lotus seed paste.

Lotus seed paste is the most common kind of mooncake filling.

I also have, at home, at home there's another

another kind of mooncake. Like this mooncake,

it has red bean paste inside,

it's filled with red bean paste.

Red bean paste and lotus seed paste are not the same,

they're different. And the shape of this mooncake,

the shape is also a little different,

it's square,

it's a square,

square. The one just now was round,

round, their shapes and fillings

inside are all a little different.

I'll unwrap a salted egg yolk with lotus seed paste one

to show you.

I'm taking this mooncake's packaging,

tearing open the packaging,

unwrapping it,

taking the mooncake out,

out.

It has this little box,

a little box holds it,

inside is the mooncake,

one mooncake, it's quite thick,

It's quite thick, a pretty big one.

So I'm going to use a small knife,

This is a knife,

a fruit knife.

I'm going to use the small knife to

cut the mooncake into four pieces,

using the small knife to cut the mooncake open,

into four pieces.

I'm cutting open the mooncake now,

I'll cut it in half first,

Now the mooncake has been divided into two pieces,

one, two, two pieces.

Look, there are two egg yolks inside it,

These yellow, round things are egg yolks,

There are two egg yolks,

two egg yolks.

So this kind of mooncake filling also

is called double-yolk,

double-yolk lotus seed paste mooncake.

Double means two,

double-yolk.

This in the middle is lotus seed paste,

lotus seed paste, double-yolk lotus seed paste.

I'm taking this half, this half of the mooncake,

and breaking it open again, I'm breaking it open,

breaking it open into another half.

Like this, it is divided into two pieces.

This is an egg yolk lotus seed paste mooncake,

I'll take a bite,

eat, take a bite.

Very fragrant, very tasty,

the egg yolk is very fragrant,

a very fragrant egg-yolk flavor,

the lotus seed paste is very soft,

and very sweet.

The texture and taste are both very good.

Mooncakes are sweet,

sweet, and fairly oily,

so when we eat mooncakes,

we drink tea,

drinking tea, this is a cup of tea,

a cup of tea, black tea.

Drinking tea can help cut through the richness,

cut through the richness, because mooncakes are quite sweet,

and very greasy, so drinking tea helps cut through the richness.

I'm going to take a sip of tea now.

Mm, very good,

mooncakes with tea are perfect,

And why do mooncakes have egg yolk

inside them? Because the shape of the egg yolk,

the shape, is round,

and its color,

the color is orange-yellow,

yellow, yellow, round things

look a lot like the moon,

very much like the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

So mooncakes have egg yolk.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival,

besides eating mooncakes,

we also eat a kind of fruit,

which is pomelo,

pomelo. What I'm holding is half a

half a pomelo, this is a pomelo.

I have a small piece,

a piece, a piece of peeled pomelo,

it's pink,

a pink pomelo.

There's another more common kind of pomelo,

its flesh, the flesh in the middle, is

white, white.

This is a red pomelo,

pomelo is probably sweet too,

but it has a little bit of sourness,

it tastes a little sour,

but mostly it's still sweet.

And the pomelo has a lot of juice,

it's very juicy,

The Mid-Autumn Festival is on

the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar.

On this day every year,

Chinese people go home to reunite with their families,

and sit together for dinner with their families.

On this day, the whole family reunites,

and everyone is very happy.

In your country, are there similar special holidays

for family reunions?

What different or special ways do you celebrate them?

You can tell me in the comments below.

Thank you for watching this video,

see you in the next video,

bye-bye.