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I'm very happy to have the____1____to talk to you about major traditional Chinese holidays. ___2____in the rest of the world, holidays in China are a time for serious cooking and____3____eating. Grocery markets are well stocked____4____ll kinds of fish and meat and shopping and cooking become major activities. But in addition to the quantitative and qualitative differences____5____in holiday meals, some special traditional foods and their____6____significance are indispensable on these occasions. The Dragon Boat Festival on the 5th day of the 5th.____7____ month (around early June) is celebrated in____8____ of Qu Yuan, an ancient poet and loyal minister who drowned himself while in____9____from a compt court. Zongzi, a kind of glutinous rice dumplings_____10____. In bamboo leaves, were originally prepared as sacrificial____11____. For Qu Yuan's departed soul and dropped into the river where he drowned himself. Today, however, dragon boat____12____Are held during the festival and the zongzi are consumed by the living. The Mid-autumn Festival which____13___on the 1 5th day of the 8th lunar month (around mid-September) is an occasion for viewing the full moon. Th___14____. Moon is a symbol for completeness, and by extension, family reunion. The____15____ of the day is the yuebing (mooncake), a round pastry filled with nuts, candied preserved fruits, bean paste, duck egg yolks, etc.