Eating dumplings on the Lantern Festival is a very important custom activity handed down from ancient times to the present. It is widely circulated among the people and loved by the audience. Eating glutinous rice balls on the fifteenth day of the first month is like a poem that has been firmly engraved in everyone's heart. In this long history and culture, it has gradually become today's glutinous rice balls, which is called eating "Yuanxiao".
Tangyuan is filled with white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste, etc., and wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, which can be both meat and vegetarian and has different flavors. Tangyuan is similar to reunion, which means "reunion". Tangyuan symbolizes family reunion and happiness. At the same time, eating glutinous rice balls also means that the whole family is happy and round in the new year, so it is a must-have food for the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month.
Other customs of Lantern Festival
1, lantern
Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom, which started in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the wind of lights prevailed in past dynasties and was passed down to later generations. The fifteenth day of the first month is the climax of the annual lantern fireworks.
2. solve riddles on the lanterns
Solve riddles on the lanterns, also known as playing riddles, is a unique form of traditional folk entertainment with rich national style in China. It is a characteristic activity of Lantern Festival that has been circulating since ancient times.
3. Walking on stilts
Walking on stilts is a popular folk mass performance. Stilts, originally one of the hundreds of ancient dramas in China, appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. China first introduced stilts in Liezi Shuofu: "In Song Dynasty, there were lanzi, who used their skills to dry Song and Yuan Dynasties. Song and Yuan called to see his skills. "