Sept. 17, 2025
Guǒzi(果子)
A very popular traditional pastry where I live is guǒzi (果子), which is an indispensable gift when visiting relatives during the Chinese New Year.
It is made mainly from wheat flour, oil and sugar. It represents respect and sincerity to elder generations.
The pastry comes in different shapes, such as cuboids, cylinders, spheres and semilunes. But the most popular one is the cylinder.
A package of the pastry usually weighs 0.25 kilograms. It is packaged in special yellow paper, shaped like a rectangle, covered with a red label, and then tied with a thin paper rope.
It is impolite to take an odd-numbered package of the pastry to visit relatives; instead, taking even-numbered packages (for example, two, four or six) is polite. However, two is the most popular, and four is the maximum, because of poor living conditions in the past.
In the past, this pastry was the only type of pastry that people in the countryside could eat, so they couldn’t bear to eat much of it at one go. They would only eat one or two pieces each time, then store the rest somewhere hard to find.
My maternal grandmother liked to eat it secretly. Once she heard someone walking towards her house, she immediately hid the pastry somewhere, because she couldn’t bear to share it with others.
This pastry still exists in both cities and the countryside, but it is certainly not as precious as it was in the past, thanks to improved living conditions.
Nevertheless, people still buy it for their elderly relatives as a sign of respect and sincerity during the Chinese New Year. The pastry has already become a symbol of the Chinese New Year, just like mooncakes are for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Guǒzi(果子)
A very popular traditional pastry where I live is guǒzi (果子), which is an indispensable gift when visiting relatives during the Chinese New Year.
It is made mainly from wheat flour, oil and sugar.
It represents respect and sincerity tofor elder generations.
The pastry comes in different shapes, such as cuboids, cylinders, spheres and semilunes.
But the most popular one is the cylinder.
A package of the pastry usually weighs 0.25 kilograms.
It is packaged in special yellow paper, shaped like a rectangle, covered with a red label, and then tied with a thin paper ropestring.
It is impolite to take a package containing an odd- numbered package of the pastryies to visit relatives; instead, taking even- numbered packags of pastries (for example, two, four or six) is polite.
However, two is the most popular, and four is the maximum, because of poor living conditions in the past, in the past, people were poor.
In the past, this pastry was the only type of pastry that people in the countryside could eat, so they couldn’t bear to eat much of it at one go.
They would only eat one or two pieces each time, then store the rest somewhere hard to find.
My maternal grandmother liked to eat it secretly.
OnceIf she heard someone walking towards her house, she immediately hid the pastry somewhere, because she couldn’t bear to share it with others.
This pastry still exists in both cities and the countryside, but it is certainly not as precious as it was in the past, thanks to improved living conditions.
Nevertheless, people still buy it for their elderly relatives as a sign of respect and sincerity during the Chinese New Year.
The pastry has already become a symbol of the Chinese New Year, just like mooncakes are for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
"already" implies its a recent thing. I thought mooncakes had been a symbol of the New Year for a long time. In that case The pastry has long been a symbol of the Chinese New Year, just like mooncakes are for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Sept. 17, 2025
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A very popular traditional pastry where I live is guǒzi (果子), which is an indispensable gift when visiting relatives during the Chinese New Year. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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It is made mainly from wheat flour, oil and sugar. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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It represents respect and sincerity to elder generations. It represents respect and sincerity |
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The pastry comes in different shapes, such as cuboids, cylinders, spheres and semilunes. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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But the most popular one is the cylinder. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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A package of the pastry usually weighs 0.25 kilograms. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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It is packaged in special yellow paper, shaped like a rectangle, covered with a red label, and then tied with a thin paper rope. It is packaged in special yellow paper, shaped like a rectangle, covered with a red label, and then tied with a thin paper |
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It is impolite to take an odd-numbered package of the pastry to visit relatives; instead, taking even-numbered packages (for example, two, four or six) is polite. It is impolite to take a package containing an odd |
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However, two is the most popular, and four is the maximum, because of poor living conditions in the past. However, two is the most popular, and four is the maximum, because |
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In the past, this pastry was the only type of pastry that people in the countryside could eat, so they couldn’t bear to eat much of it at one go. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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The pastry has already become a symbol of the Chinese New Year, just like mooncakes are for the Mid-Autumn Festival. The pastry has already become a symbol of the Chinese New Year, just like mooncakes are for the Mid-Autumn Festival. "already" implies its a recent thing. I thought mooncakes had been a symbol of the New Year for a long time. In that case The pastry has long been a symbol of the Chinese New Year, just like mooncakes are for the Mid-Autumn Festival. |
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They would only eat one or two pieces each time, then store the rest somewhere hard to find. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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My maternal grandmother liked to eat it secretly. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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Once she heard someone walking towards her house, she immediately hid the pastry somewhere, because she couldn’t bear to share it with others.
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This pastry still exists in both cities and the countryside, but it is certainly not as precious as it was in the past, thanks to improved living conditions. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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Nevertheless, people still buy it for their elderly relatives as a sign of respect and sincerity during the Chinese New Year. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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