What are the customs and delicacies of the Lantern Festival in 2018?
The Lantern Festival is the first major festival after the Spring Festival. It is also a festival with many customs all over the country. There is a custom in our country that whenever there is something worth celebrating, corresponding food will be born. The Lantern Festival is certainly no exception. What are the customs and food of the Lantern Festival in 2018? For more details about the 2018 Lunar New Year calendar, please visit the Fortune Teller website for consultation!What are the customs and habits of the Lantern Festival in 2018?Eating Yuanxiao is eaten on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. "Yuanxiao" as a food has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food for the Lantern Festival became popular among the people. This kind of food was first called "Fuyuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao". Businessmen also called it "Yuanbao". Yuanxiao, also known as "tangyuan", is filled with sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, osmanthus, walnut kernels, nuts, jujube paste, etc. It is wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape. It can be meat or vegetarian, with different flavors. It can be cooked in soup, fried, or steamed, symbolizing reunion and happiness. The glutinous rice balls in Shaanxi are not wrapped but "rolled" in glutinous rice flour and then boiled or fried. They are hot and round.The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival. During this festival, people have the custom of hanging, lighting and watching lanterns, so it is also called the Lantern Festival. Playing with lanterns is a traditional festival custom of the Lantern Festival, which originated in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the custom of lighting lanterns became popular and was passed down to later generations. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the climax of the annual lantern and fireworks festival. That's why the Lantern Festival is also called the "Festival of Lanterns". In Shanxi's county towns and even villages and towns, which are densely populated and prosperous areas, before the arrival of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the streets are hung with lanterns, flowers are in bloom and lights are swaying, reaching a climax on the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The "watching lanterns" on the 15th day of the first lunar month has become a traditional activity for the people of Shanxi Province. Guessing lantern riddles, also known as playing lantern riddles, is a traditional folk cultural and entertainment form unique to China with rich national style. It is a special activity of the Lantern Festival that has been passed down since ancient times. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, traditional people would hang up colorful lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, some people wrote riddles on pieces of paper and posted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles can enlighten the wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, many people responded to them, and guessing riddles gradually became an indispensable program of the Lantern Festival. Riddles add to the festive atmosphere and showcase the ancient working people’s wisdom and wisdom and their yearning for a better life. [19-20] Dragon dance is also called dragon lantern dance or dragon dance. Its origin can be traced back to ancient times. Legend has it that as early as the Yellow Emperor period, in a large-scale song and dance called "Qingjiao", there appeared an image of a human playing a dragon head with a bird body. Later, a dance scene of six dragons interweaving with each other was choreographed. The first recorded dragon dance was in the "Fu of Western Capital" by Zhang Heng of the Han Dynasty. The author gave a vivid description of the dragon dance in the narration of a hundred plays. According to the "Book of Sui·Music Records", during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui, the "Yellow Dragon Change" performance, which was similar to the dragon dance in various acrobatics, was also very exciting and dragon dance became popular in many places in China. The Chinese nation worships the dragon and regards it as a symbol of good luck. Stilt walking is a popular mass performance among the people. Stilt walking is a type of acrobatics in ancient China and appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. The earliest introduction of stilts in China is in the Liezi Shuo Fu chapter: "In Song there was a man named Lan Zi, who used his skills to compete with Song Yuan. Song Yuan summoned him and showed him his skills. Lion dance is an excellent Chinese folk art. During the Lantern Festival or gatherings and celebrations, people perform lion dance to add to the fun. This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period, became popular during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and has a history of more than a thousand years. [1] "Lion dance" originated in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. It is also known as "Lion Dance" and "Taiping Music". It is usually performed by three people. Two of them dress up as lions, one acts as the lion's head, one acts as the lion's body and hind legs, and the other acts as the lion's leader. There are two types of dance: civil and martial. The civil dance shows the lion's tameness, with movements such as shaking hair and rolling. The martial lion dance shows the lion's ferocity, with movements such as leaping, kicking high, and rolling colorful balls. Rowing the land boat Rowing the land boat, according to folklore, is to commemorate Dayu, who made great contributions to flood control. Land boat rowing is also called land boat running, which is to imitate the movement of a boat on land. Most of the people who perform land boat running are girls. The land boat is not a real boat. It is made of two thin boards, sawn into a boat shape, tied with bamboo and wood, and covered with colorful cloth. It is tied around the girl's waist. It is like sitting in a boat. She holds oars in her hands and makes rowing gestures while running, singing local tunes and dancing at the same time. This is land boat rowing. Sometimes there is another man dressed as a passenger on the boat, and his partner in the performance is mostly dressed as a clown, using all kinds of funny actions to amuse the audience. Land boat rowing is popular in many areas of China. What should we eat during the Lantern Festival?Yuanxiao Food: Yuanxiao Yuanxiao, also known as tangyuan, shuotuo, yuanzi, etc., has a long history in China. Yuanxiao, also known as "tangyuan", is filled with sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, osmanthus, walnut kernels, nuts, jujube paste, etc. It is wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape. It can be meat or vegetarian, with different flavors. It is a must to eat Yuanxiao during the Lantern Festival, as it represents the auspicious meaning of "round like the moon".Lantern Festival Food: Dumplings Dumplings are a folk food with a long history and are very popular among the people. There is a folk saying that “nothing tastes better than dumplings”. During every Chinese New Year, dumplings become an indispensable delicacy. The dumplings are shaped like ingots. People eat dumplings during the Spring Festival to get the sound of "attracting wealth and treasure". Secondly, dumplings have stuffing, which makes it convenient for people to wrap all kinds of auspicious things into the stuffing to express their wishes for the new year. Ingredients for making Yuanxiao : appropriate amount of glutinous rice, rice, appropriate amount of white sugar, sesame paste, peach kernels (crushed), sesame seeds, and melted lard. practice: 1. Mix glutinous rice and rice (5000 grams of glutinous rice can be added with 1000 grams of rice), soak in water for 1-2 days, grind it into fine powder, put it into a cloth bag, suspend it in the air, and make flour. 2. Mix sugar, sesame paste, peach kernels, sesame seeds, melted lard and flour, and make into small cubes for filling. 3. Add appropriate amount of cold water to the flour and knead it. Take a small piece, flatten it, put in the cut fillings, seal it and knead it into a round shape. 4. Bring the water to a boil and add the glutinous rice balls. Do not use too strong a fire when cooking. The glutinous rice balls float to the surface of the water and can be taken out after a while. To make dumplings , prepare the following ingredients: beef, onion, ginger, and celery. Chop and mix all the ingredients. Add three tablespoons of cooking oil and add other seasonings yourself. You must add more cooking oil to the beef, otherwise it will be very dry. practice: 1. Put the filling in the middle of the dumpling skin and fold it in half. The purchased dumpling skin is dry, so it is easier to pinch it with your fingers dipped in some water. 2. The way to hold it is that the meat filling faces outwards. The traditional way is to just twist it up, but for the ingot-shaped one, you have to twist it from top to bottom. 3. Use your thumb to press a groove and pinch the corners together. Don’t pinch too much, or the ingot will become crooked. |
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