Xiangwan is round, with a diameter of about 1 cm. It is made of winter solstice powder formed by soaking glutinous rice in dry land for 7 days. It is hollow and melts in the mouth. In Dongguan, when friends and relatives visit each other, they will always receive a few fragrant pills from the host's family, which means that they have become attached to people. People in Kunming like to eat bean dough, which is similar to Yuanxiao. It is to stir-fry beans and grind them, make them into balls and cook them with water.
The Lantern Festival is mainly to pray for the reunion of the whole family. The conventional fillings of all kinds of glutinous rice balls are mainly fruit and thousand fruits, which are of by going up one flight of stairs nutritional value. Boiling dumplings in water is the simplest way, but also the healthiest way to eat them.
Main activities of Lantern Festival
In the Song Dynasty, more attention was paid to the Lantern Festival, and the lantern viewing activities were more lively. The lantern viewing activities lasted for five days and the styles of lanterns were more abundant. In the Ming Dynasty, the lantern festival will last for 10 days, which is the longest lantern festival in China. Although there were only three days of lantern viewing in Qing Dynasty, the scale of lantern viewing was very large, and the grand occasion was unprecedented. Besides burning lanterns, fireworks were also set off to add fun.
Solve riddles on the lanterns, also known as playing riddles, is an activity added after the Lantern Festival, which appeared in the Song Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the capital Lin 'an made riddles every Lantern Festival, and there were many people guessing riddles. At the beginning, it was a busybody who wrote riddles on paper and pasted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles are enlightening and interesting, they are welcomed by all walks of life in the process of spreading.