Tuan-Yuan (團圓): A Candy / Riceball Tray

Submitted by Zack Yu on Thu, 2011-02-24 21:17

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Dongzhi Festival, or Chinese Winter Stolstice Festival, is celebrated around December 22nd, the first day of Dongzhi solar term.

In Chinese culture, Dongzhi festival is a time for family and friends to get together. One of the most significant activities is the making and eating of Tangyuan (glutinuous riceball), which symbolize reunion.

Tuan-Yuan is a candy and riceball tray that symbolically represents reunion. “Yuan” in Chinese means sphere, circle, or ring; it also connotes being together. Tuan-Yuan is made of 8 wood circles weaving with each other, meaning big reunion. The five pedals on the top resembles to the flower of plum, the national flower of Taiwan.

Tuan-Yuan was featured in Wood Co-op’s 2008 winter holliday collection.

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