The excellent customs of my hometown begin as follows: Model 1: As New Year’s Eve goes away, another important festival, the Lantern Festival, ushered in.

In my hometown, eating glutinous rice balls and watching lanterns are an essential part of the Lantern Festival, so my impression of the Lantern Festival is that it is sweet and colorful.

No, a few days before the Lantern Festival, my mother took me to the supermarket to choose Lantern Festivals.

Looking at the various flavors of Yuanxiao on the shelves, I didn’t know how to choose. After a moment of hesitation, I put the bag of colorful dumplings into my bag.

In my eager anticipation, the Lantern Festival finally arrived.

At noon, grandma prepared a table of delicious dishes, but I had no time to take care of it. I was just waiting for the plate of colorful dumplings to be served!

Pick one up and put it in your mouth. It's really sweet, fresh, smooth and glutinous, with all five tastes.

After a while, the plate of glutinous rice balls was completely wiped out.

Example 2: The skin is golden, minced pork is minced into stuffing, and wrapped into a curved half-moon shape haha, everyone must have guessed it, right?

This is the delicacy of our hometown Shanghai - egg dumplings.

Speaking of egg dumplings, we have to mention its origin.

The tradition of eating egg dumplings in Shanghai has a long history. As early as the 1920s and 1930s, Zhang Ailing mentioned in the novel Half a Lifetime: Dumplings and egg dumplings are all ingots.

On New Year's Eve, the last main dish of Shanghainese's New Year's Eve dinner will be a family portrait. The family portrait can be a hot pot or a casserole, usually with stock as the base.

If you're particular about it, add a few shrimps to further bring out the umami flavor.

There are many ingredients, but the only thing that cannot be missing is the egg dumplings.

Model Essay 3: China has a variety of traditional festivals, and each festival has a representative food.

Tomb Sweeping Day is coming soon, and I can’t help but think about the green dumplings with the fragrant mugwort leaves.

Every year on Qingming Festival, I always follow my mother to visit the graves in my hometown of Anji, because there is always a reserved program at that time: the whole family makes Youth League.

In previous years, on Qingming Festival, our whole family would go to visit the tomb early in the morning.

As soon as I come back, I will go to the fields to pick new mugwort leaves.

After picking them, clean them and knead them to make juice for later use. At this time, grandma will mix glutinous rice flour with warm water and knead the ribs into flour.

When the glutinous rice flour turns into a dough, the mother on the side will evenly pour the freshly squeezed moxa leaf juice into the dough, while grandma continues to knead the flour.

In an instant, the snow-white glutinous rice ball turned into emerald green glutinous rice ball, and then the dough was kneaded into a cylindrical shape.

Grandma skillfully pulled pieces of dough from the top and rolled them into balls. At this time, aunts and uncles would join in, pick up a piece of dough, and start making dumplings.