Lantern Festival lights up at night, and other lights are generally not used for lighting at home on this day. The children went out for the Lantern Festival hand in hand, and all the oil and food were used up. Nursery rhymes say, "cotton lamp, look at your eyes, it won't hurt your eyes for three years!" " "
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At noon on the fifteenth day of the first month, people began to make this kind of lamp, mixing noodles or noodles, adding flavor seasoning to noodles and kneading them into various shapes.
If vegetarian buns are for flushing the stomach tired of big fish and big meat, then cotton lanterns are for pleasing children of all sizes.
Steamed buns are only different in size, and cotton lamps can better reflect the ingenuity of housewives. For example, in the zodiac, noodles are added with salt and pepper. , and knead the noodles into a cylindrical strip like a rolling pin on the chopping board, then cut into sections, then knead the noodles into a corn head shape, spread them out on the chopping board in turn, with grooves on the upper edge, then knead them by hand, or use chopsticks to clamp them, or.
The ingenious housewife will also pinch a handle according to the child's preference, or pinch it into a mouse to steal oil. If you have a dragon at home, you must steam the dragon lantern with noodles. First roll the noodles into long strips on the chopping board, and then gently roll them into a small lantern. Then use scissors to cut out the dragon's dragon forest, use washed bamboo forks to make dragon claws and horns, put a piece of red cloth in your mouth to make dragon tongue, and use two red beans to make longan, which is vivid.