Eating mooncakes on Mid-Autumn Festival is a tradition of the Chinese nation. Do giant pandas fancy mooncakes to celebrate the Festival? And if so, what flavor are the mooncakes for giant pandas?

At the Qinling Giant Panda Research Center in Shaanxi Province, panda keepers have prepared a special Mid-Autumn feast for Qizai, the world's only captive brown giant panda. They have stuffed bamboo leaves and chunks of carrots, Qizai's favorite, into hollow bamboo balls, allowing Qizai to eat and play at the same time.

The mooncakes for Qizai are more like the steamed bread made of corn flour, soybean flour and wheat flour moulded in a special mold, which have no stuffings. To add a sense of ceremony, the panda keepers also managed to lay out the two characters "中秋", meaning "Mid-Autumn", with the carrots. In the face of such a Mid-Autumn feast, Qizai gorged himself without any hesitation.

中秋节吃月饼是我们的传统。大熊猫在中秋节会吃“月饼”吗？大熊猫的“月饼”又是什么馅儿的呢？

在陕西秦岭大熊猫研究中心，保育员为全球唯一一只圈养棕色大熊猫“七仔”准备了专属的中秋大餐。在空竹球里，保育员塞进竹叶和“七仔”最爱吃的胡萝卜块，让“七仔”能吃也能玩。

“七仔”吃的“月饼”是以玉米粉、黄豆粉、面粉为原料，在专用模具里压制而成的“窝窝头”，所以“七仔”的“月饼”其实是没有馅儿的。为了增加仪式感，保育员还用胡萝卜摆出了“中秋”两个字。面对中秋大餐，“七仔”毫不客气地一扫而空。

译｜洪婷
来源｜央视新闻
责编 | 王楠
校对 | 马曼婷