Where does the custom of eating glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival come from?
In my country, there is a custom of eating glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival, which symbolizes "family reunion and happiness." Therefore, every Lantern Festival today, people have to eat glutinous rice balls whether they like it or not. So where does the custom of eating glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival come from? If you want to know more about the first month of the lunar calendar in 2018, please pay attention to our fortune teller website!Where does the custom of eating glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival come from?On the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Master Natuo secretly threw madman's medicine into the people's rice pots. As soon as the medicine was put into the pot, it turned into soybeans, peas, garlic sprouts, tofu and meat. After the people ate it, they really went "crazy" slowly: the women sewed new clothes and embroidered shoes; the men killed pigs and sheep, and no one wanted to work in the fields anymore. After the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, the effect of the madman's drug took effect, and people would invite people to dinner at one house and to drink at another. On the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, people drink even more. Starting from the first day of the first lunar month, men, women, old and young not only eat good food, but also wear red and green and play everywhere. Some of them painted their faces, paraded around the streets beating gongs and drums, while others invited people from all over the world to pay New Year's greetings with gifts.On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, the Kitchen God went to heaven and reported: "Your Majesty, it's bad. The people have all gone crazy! They only care about eating and playing, and don't do any work. What will happen if it continues like this?" The Jade Emperor was very surprised when he heard the report, and immediately ordered his ministers to discuss a good plan. Taibai Jinxing said again, "If you want to cure the people's madness, you can ask Medicine King Bodhisattva to find a way." The Jade Emperor approved the request and ordered Medicine King Bodhisattva to descend to the human world to govern. On the fourteenth night of the first lunar month, Medicine King Bodhisattva turned people’s supper into glutinous rice balls, in which he put sesame seeds, walnuts, sugar and other sobering agents. The people ate the food, and two days later, all the madness was cured. Every family went back to their normal work, with men farming and women weaving. This practice continued over and over again, and thus formed the habit of eating dumplings during the Lantern Festival. |
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