The Lantern Festival is coming soon. In my hometown, the most memorable Lantern Festival customs include "colorful lanterns" and eating glutinous rice balls. Perhaps in other cities, there are customs such as lion dancing, dragon dancing, drumming, walking on stilts and dancing yangko.

Lantern Festival "colorful lantern" also has different meanings in different regions. Besides the original meaning of offering sacrifices to gods and exorcising evil spirits, it also has the meaning of seeking children and people to reproduce in southern China, because the sound of "lantern" is close to that of "ding".

After the Lantern Festival, we have to eat glutinous rice balls (called glutinous rice balls in the south and Yuanxiao in the north). There is a great difference between the north and the south in terms of making glutinous rice balls. When making glutinous rice balls in the south, the glutinous rice flour is first mixed with boiling water to make skin, and then the stuffing is "wrapped". To make Yuanxiao in the north, first knead the stuffing into a uniform ball, put it in a laundry basket covered with dry glutinous rice flour and shake it constantly. From time to time, add water to make the stuffing stained with more and more glutinous rice flour until the size is moderate. Since we have entered beginning of spring during the Lantern Festival, we should pay attention to the rising of yang in spring health preservation, and at the same time avoid rising too much. Therefore, people pay attention to adding sweetness to the diet in spring to replenish the spleen. Therefore, most of the dumplings (made of glutinous rice, solid or stuffed) eaten at the Lantern Festival also contain longan, sesame, jujube paste, walnuts, peanuts, red bean paste, almonds and other delicious and sweet products. "Tangyuan" and "Reunion" are similar in pronunciation, which means reunion, symbolizing the reunion of the whole family, harmony and happiness, and pinning their good wishes for future life.

There are many ways to eat Yuanxiao, such as boiling, frying, frying and steaming. If the solid Lantern Festival is cooked with wine, sugar and osmanthus, it has a unique flavor. In my hometown, osmanthus wine is a unique food. Every time I finish eating, there is still a fragrance in my mouth.

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