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According to an old Chinese custom, on occasions such as birthdays, marriage or birth, friends and neighbors present pastries to the family concerned, as a token of congratulations. There are set rules for the type and form of the pastries to give. Pastries are also used as gifts on festivals and holidays, when people visit relatives, friends or elders.
Pastry shops make and sell an assortment of pastries. In some northern areas, pastry is called "bobo." so they acquired another name, "bobo shops". Most pastry shops have their own workshops making and selling their own specialties, as well as seasonal pastry such mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival, sweet dumplings of glutinous rice flour for the Lantern Festival, along with ordinary pastries for everyday consumption.
Pastry shops take on various forms of signs, two of which are illustrated here. One strings together four flat-bottomed cloud-patterned bronze plates, with trailing pendant (left); the other is a chain of four wooden pastry molds of different shapes, carved respectively into the forms of bat, persimmon, fan and stone chime, because the sounds of these four words approximate "Fu Yuan Shan Qing," meaning "lucky and good fortune (right)".
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