Eat the Lantern
Local people celebrate the Lantern Festival
Lunar January fifteen eat Lantern, "Lantern" as a food in our country a long time. In the Song Dynasty, folk was a novel food that was popular during the Lantern Festival. This food, the earliest called "floating element" after the "Lantern", the businessman also beautiful name "ingot." Lantern is the "dumpling" with white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean, Huang Gui, walnuts, nuts, dates and so on for the filling, with glutinous rice flour into a round, can be meat vegetarian, different flavors. Can soup, fried, steamed, happy reunion. Shaanxi dumpling is not a package, but in the glutinous rice flour "roll" into, or cook or fried, heat, get round and round. Street lantern
The lunar January fifteen is the "Lantern Festival", this holiday folk hanging lights, lights, watchable light custom, it is also known as Lantern Festival.
Lantern Festival is the traditional festival customs, began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the prevailing lights of the prevalence of wind, and passed on in later generations. The fifteenth day, but also the annual street lantern fireworks climax. Therefore, the Lantern Festival is also called the "Lantern Festival". At the county level in Shanxi, even in the towns and villages, these residents are concentrated and lively downtown. Before the first lunar month, the streets are full of lanterns, Swaying to the fifteenth day of the first month to reach orgasm. The "Moon Light" of the 15th lunar month has become a folk mass in Shanxi
lantern riddles
Launching riddles is a form of traditional folk customs recreational activities unique to China that is rich in ethnic style and is a special Lantern Festival activity that has been circulating since ancient times. Every lunar January 15, the traditional folk should be hung lanterns, fireworks, and later there are people who write riddles on the note, affixed to the colorful lights for people to guess. Because the riddle can inspire wisdom and meet the festive atmosphere, so many people respond to, and then gradually become a mystery Lantern Festival indispensable program. The riddles add festive atmosphere, showing the wisdom of the ancient working people and the longing for a better life.
