On the 15th day of the first lunar month, just after the Spring Festival, the traditional Chinese festival is the Lantern Festival.
The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called the night "night", so called the fifteenth day of the first month for the Lantern Festival. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night in the year, is also the beginning of the New Year, the earth spring night, people to celebrate this, is also to celebrate the continuation of the New Year. The Lantern Festival is also known as the "Shangyuan Festival".
According to Chinese folk tradition, on the night of the high moon, people order thousands of colorful lights to celebrate. Go out to enjoy the full moon, burning lanterns, like to guess lantern riddles, eat yuanxiao, family reunion, celebrate the festival, happy and harmonious.
The fifteenth day of the first month to eat yuanxiao, "yuanxiao" as food, also known as tangyuan, in China has a long history. This kind of food, originally called "floating yuan son" after called "yuanxiao", businessmen also called "ingot". In the south, tangyuan is mainly filled with sugar, sesame and bean paste and wrapped with glutinous rice flour, which can be meat and vegetables with different flavors. Can be soup boiled, fried, steamed food, have a reunion happy meaning.
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