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Remark: It can't be better! This fantastic dress is made of high quality silk brocade and covered with serried floral patterns. Featuring asymmetric Mandarin collar and frog closures, it is trimmed with contrasting gold piping as adornment and is the highlight of this cheongsam.

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Details: Charm of Oriental Clothing. People will eat Yuanxiao, or rice dumplings, on this day, so it is also called the "Yuanxiao Festival." Yuanxiao also has another name, Tangyuan. It is small dumpling balls made of glutinous rice flour with rose petals, sesame, bean paste, jujube paste, walnut meat, dried fruit, sugar and edible oil as filling. Tangyuan can be boiled, fried or steamed. It tastes sweet and delicious. What's more, Tangyuan in Chinese has a similar pronunciation with "tuan-yuan? meaning reunion. So people eat them to denote union, harmony and happiness for the family. The name "cheongsam," meaning simply "long dress," entered the English vocabulary from the dialect of China's Guangdong Province (Cantonese). In other parts of the country including Beijing, however, it is known as "qipao", which has a history behind it.

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