Do you remember the piggy biscuits that come in a rattan-basket packaging? Zhu Loong Paeng or “piglet biscuits” make their rounds during the Mooncake Festival. These biscuits are shaped like piglets and are placed in colourful oblong, plastic “pig cages”.
While the little ones are gleeful to have these cute snacks, the words pig cage also conjure up an “unsavoury” meaning. It is a reminder how, during the Qing dynasty (1636–1912), adulterers were bound and stuffed into separate pig cages, and drowned.
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