On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, through activities such as moon viewing and worshiping the moon god, you can express your thoughts for your loved ones. The China Consumers Association recently issued a Mid-Autumn Festival consumption tip, calling on consumers to refuse excessive packaging of mooncakes and "sky-high" mooncakes, and oppose extravagance and waste.
On September 7, 2023, the staff of a mooncake manufacturer in Yinchuan, Ningxia, were busy on the production line. With the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching and mooncakes ushering in the peak consumption season, Ningxia mooncake manufacturers have stepped up processing and production to meet the market demand for the festival. In the Wal-Mart supermarket (Xianning store), a special sales area has also been opened for mooncake gift boxes. The reporter found that according to the label, the price of the gift box mooncakes ranged from 100 yuan to more than 400 yuan, and no high-priced mooncakes with a price of more than 500 yuan were found. In order to seize the market, the mooncake gift box area has also launched a discount of 20% off two designated mooncakes. The salesperson said,
At present, the first half of the Mid-Autumn Festival is the golden period for boxed mooncake sales, most of which are used as gifts, and at a food processing factory in Zaoyuan Town, Lanshan District, staff will pack freshly baked mooncakes on plates. The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, mooncakes usher in the sales season, orders from mooncake processing factories in Linyi have increased, and workers have worked overtime to make mooncakes to meet the market demand for the festival, and in modern times, mooncakes have become gifts given to each other during the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion, placing people's thoughts and blessings on their families. People will enjoy moon viewing, eating mooncakes, guessing lantern riddles and other activities. And the most important of them is eating mooncakes.
China's famous mooncake city "Guangdong Maoming held a mooncake national ordering festival on the 2nd, Maoming mooncakes in addition to selling well all over China, since 2009, Maoming mooncake enterprises also to the United States, Britain, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries and regions to export mooncakes and mooncake fillings. In 2018, Maoming was awarded the title of "China's Mooncake City". As a traditional Chinese pastry, mooncakes are an indispensable delicacy for the Mid-Autumn Festival, but most mooncakes are high in fat, sucrose and calories, and consumers can choose mooncakes with different nutritional ratios and flavors according to their nutritional reference values and their physical conditions, and should not be consumed excessively.