Lantern Festival
Feb 26,2021.
The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival. Lantern Festival is eaten in the north and Tangyuan is eaten in the south.
The Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Little New Year's Day, New Year's Eve or Lantern Festival, is one of the traditional Chinese festivals. The first lunar month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night" as "xiao". The fifteenth of the first lunar month is the first full moon night of the year, so the fifteenth of the first lunar month is called the "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist "Sanyuan", the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also called the "Shangyuan Festival". The custom of Lantern Festival has been dominated by the custom of warm and festive lantern viewing since ancient times.
The Lantern Festival is the first full moon night of the Lunar New Year. It is a day to worship and admire the moon. It also symbolizes the arrival of spring. This is the last day of the traditional Chinese New Year definition. In China, the traditional customs of the Lantern Festival include "guessing lantern riddles," where people write some brain teasers and other questions on paper, and then hang each question on the roof with thin lines, and then let people guess the riddle.
Tangyuan, nicknamed "Dumpling" and "Floating Yuanzi", is one of the representatives of traditional snacks of the Han nationality. At the same time, it is also the most distinctive food in China's traditional Lantern Festival, and it also expresses the ancient people's yearning and expectation for a happy life.
The folks have a custom of eating Lantern Festival during the Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival is called "tangyuan", "yuanzi", "fuyuanzi", and "shuiyuan" in the south. It is made of glutinous rice (made from sweet potatoes in some areas), solid, or filled. The stuffing includes red bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, etc., which can be boiled, fried, steamed or fried.
