What gifts should I give during the Lantern Festival?
Gift-giving culture is the essence of traditional Chinese culture.
Giving gifts is not only a kind of courtesy, but also reflects a kind of cultivation, a kind of taste and a kind of intention. Therefore, during festivals, people often give gifts to relatives and friends to express their blessings to them.
So, what is the best gift to give during the Lantern Festival? Here are some good things recommended for you to give as a gift during the Lantern Festival.
1. Tangyuan Tangyuan, also known as glutinous rice balls or reunion balls, is a delicacy made from glutinous rice flour and other ingredients. It has a smooth and refreshing texture, and a sweet but not greasy taste.
During the Spring Festival, every household will eat glutinous rice balls to symbolize family reunion and good luck.
The custom of eating glutinous rice balls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month began in the Song Dynasty.
Nowadays, "the moon on the fifteenth day is sixteen yuan" has long been a thing of the past, but eating a steaming bowl of glutinous rice balls with meat fillings, taking a sip of the fragrant and delicious osmanthus wine, and tasting the soft, glutinous and sweet brown sugar rice cakes...
.It can still arouse people's infinite reverie.
Therefore, if you want to give a special gift to your family and friends during the Lantern Festival, you might as well consider giving some delicious and healthy food, such as handmade snacks, freshly made and sold special snacks, etc.
2. Lanterns in China are known as "the lanterns of the Lantern Festival illuminate the eternity, and the moonlight of the Mid-Autumn Festival intoxicates thousands of families".
Every time during the New Year, festivals or festive days, people will decorate with lanterns and hang lanterns to create a festive atmosphere.
On the night of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, it is also the time of year when lanterns are held. There is a folk saying that "on the fourteenth night, watch the sky; the moon is like buds, spring has come to the world; people are like a tide, and the streets are full of songs." This shows that this
The lanterns in the sky are so lively! Therefore, if you plan to give someone a special gift during the Lantern Festival, you can consider giving them a beautiful lantern.
3. Couplets Since ancient times, Chinese people have had the habit of posting couplets.
A good couplet can not only play a decorative role, but also reflect the owner's taste and taste.
In addition, since the Lunar New Year falls on the first day of the first lunar month, and the Spring Festival comes after the Spring Festival, people will also buy some red paper to write couplets in the last few days of the New Year.
However, with the development of the times and the accelerated pace of life, many people are no longer keen on handwritten couplets.
They often buy ready-made printed couplets directly, which is convenient and fast.
4. Red envelopes As the saying goes: "If you have money but don't have money, go home to celebrate the New Year." Whenever the New Year comes, people who work hard outside will always try their best to return home to reunite with their families.
In order to express their longing, people usually give red envelopes to family and friends.
Although electronic red envelopes are very common and convenient nowadays, traditional red envelopes are still a good gift.
Especially for those who are usually busy at work, receiving a paper red envelope made by themselves will make them feel very surprised and warm.
5. Flowers Flowers are one of the things that best represent love.
No matter men, women or children, they all like to use flowers to express their feelings.
Especially on New Year's Day, Women's Day, and Mother's Day, very few people can receive flowers! In fact, no matter which holiday it is, as long as it is someone's birthday or wedding anniversary, you can prepare a few flowers as gifts for each other.
Because the flowers themselves represent purity, beauty, love and respect.