The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, and mooncakes are also a traditional Chinese delicacy. However, knives and forks are tableware that is only used in Western diets. Combining the two together seems a bit awkward. Speaking of China’s traditional Mid-Autumn Festival

Plus traditional Chinese mooncakes, but why do we need to pair them with Western knives and forks?

Experts tell the truth and gain knowledge.

After so many years of development, the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes have become not only popular among Chinese people, but also recognized by many local people in many other countries abroad. Therefore, now not only Chinese people eat mooncakes, but people from other countries also eat mooncakes.

, and Western-style knives and forks are easier to master than Chinese chopsticks, so for the convenience of eating, mooncakes are paired with knives and forks.

And why do foreign mooncakes come with knives and forks, while domestic mooncakes also come with knives and forks?

Logically speaking, Chinese people in China are much more comfortable using chopsticks than knives and forks, but why do domestic mooncakes still come with knives and forks?

In fact, this has something to do with the special attributes of knives and forks. For example, when we use knives and forks in Western restaurants, you will feel that this is more ritualistic, and this can also highlight the preciousness and grandeur of the annual Mid-Autumn Festival.

The third reason is that the taste of mooncakes nowadays is relatively sweet, so few people can finish the whole mooncake by themselves, so many people share the mooncakes with the whole family, and if they don’t have a knife and fork, they have to

Breaking it apart by hand will not only make it difficult to divide the mooncakes evenly, but the broken mooncakes will not look good, and will also cause a lot of crumbs to fall.