BEIJING Kyle Turris Jersey , Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Although the Mid-Autumn Festival is still more than a week away, mooncakes are already on people's minds.
Mid-Autumn Day, the 15th day of the eighth month of China's lunar calendar, falls on Oct. 4 this year. The festival has been celebrated for more than 3,000 years during the full moon to mark the autumn harvest. It is also an occasion for family gatherings featuring lanterns, riddles and, of course, mooncakes.
While mooncakes are traditionally stuffed with sweetened bean paste or lotus seed paste, some mooncake sellers have caused a stir by advertising more exotic fillings, such as abalone, bullfrog and even traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
On e-commerce website Taobao, a set of abalone mooncakes costs 268 yuan (41 U.S. dollars). The ingredient table on the package says the amount of abalone is "higher than 3 percent." However, the vendor claimed that the mooncakes only have "abalone flavor," rather than actual abalone meat. In the comment section of another vendor on Taobao, some customers said that the mooncakes had "very little abalone meat" and "tasted like ordinary steamed buns."
Another vendor has been selling "TCM mooncakes" on Taobao. The ingredient table claims the cakes contain prepared rehmannia root, Chinese angelica, white peony root and chuanxiong, four common TCM ingredients. The advertisement for the mooncakes touts their "clot-absorbing" and "nourishing" effects.
Zhang Hua, a state-level health manager in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, said that caring for one's health "takes some time" and cannot be achieved through a few bites of mooncake.
"Mooncakes are seasonal food," Zhang said. "It is impossible to 'nourish the body' by just eating the ingredients once or twice."
A 2015 regulation set specific standards for mooncake production in China. For example, the regulation stipulated that mooncakes with lotus seed paste stuffing should contain at least 60 percent lotus seeds.
"Mooncakes should be made according to the standards, and the process should be supervised," said an industry insider who declined to be named.
A mooncake maker told Xinhua that many handmade mooncakes on the market are produced without government certificates and pose potential hazards to human health.
"Many people just make mooncakes in home workshops without paying attention to hygiene," said the mooncake producer.
Authorities across the country have already begun an overhaul of the industry as Mid-Autumn Festival approaches. In Beijing, the local food and drug administration launched an inspection of 53 mooncake-making companies, while establishing a reporting system to enhance supervision. Similar inspections have been initiated in provinces including Hainan and Guizhou.
Experts said it is necessary to increase supervision of mooncake producers and demand they operate according to laws and regulations.
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Liev Schreiber took around 800 punches when filming The Bleeder to make the boxing drama more credible and to not upset the prize fighter whose real life story it portrayed, the US actor said at the Venice International Film Festival on Friday.
The movie - based on the life of Chuck Wepner, who almost went 15 rounds with world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali - is one of several movies screening in the out of competition section in Venice.
Schreiber said he does not like doing biographical films because of the comparisons that are made and the danger is even bigger playing a prize fighter, especially if he is still alive.
"Fortunately Chuck likes the movie and appreciates my efforts, otherwise I could be in big trouble," he said.
Director Philippe Falardeau said he was not convinced by boxing movies where cameras hide the punches or their absence.
"Fortunately for us and unfortunately for the insurance company, (Liev) said he was going to take real punches... that made an enormous difference," the Canadian director told a press conference, adding particular effort went into portraying the 1975 title fight with Ali.
"What you see in the movie are bits and pieces of what happened in the real fight," he added. "Sometimes it's spectacular, sometimes it's not spectacular but it's genuine. And I didn't watch any boxing movie preparing this one."
But the movie is more than just a boxing drama, Falardeau said, adding it's a story of "a kid trapped inside a big man's body."
Schreiber's real-life partner Naomi Watts stars in the movie as Wepner's latest wife, Linda, after choosing not to take the role of the boxer's earlier spouse, saying she liked the spirit of the character and the difference to her earlier roles.
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