The Lantern Festival of the Ninghai people is on the fourteenth day of the first month. And in the "Fourteen Nights", a traditional activity with a history of 600 years in a town in Ninghai, eating "Hundred Family Dumplings".
Rice dumplings, also known as bad soup, paste boiling, is made of rice flour or mountain flour (sweet potato flour), a variety of seafood, vegetables, fruits, cooked, there are salty rice and sweet rice. It is said that the Qi family army fought a bloody battle with the Wokou in that year, and eventually lacked food and clothing. The villagers were grateful to the Qi family army for defending the country and not hurting the people in the slightest, so the local people spontaneously took out grain, vegetables and other foods and mixed them into a paste-like soup to satisfy the Qi family army to fill their hunger, and this soup was called "rice". Since then, the "rice" that left behind the ancient military and civilian fish water story has gradually become popular in the local area and has become a unique hospitality food for the Lantern Festival.
On this day, a group of children, a jar or a bowl, a scoop, hugging back and forth, begging for this and that, the kind neighbors will fill the children with a bowl full of them and stuff a handful of snacks. "On weekdays, if parents shout for dinner, it is inevitable that the child will be scolded if he does not come back, but on this day, if the child does not come back to eat outside, the family will not be angry."
The Lantern Eating Event in a city is now well-known outside the county, and before the outbreak of the epidemic, tens of thousands of people went to eat rice every fourteen nights a year, and it was overcrowded. Each family has to burn seven or eight pots of rice dumplings, and also make four or five hundred pieces of malt barrels, all of which are free for relatives, friends and tourists to eat. Now affected by the epidemic, such a collective activity as the fourteenth night in 2022 will still be suspended, but Xiaobian believes that the epidemic will eventually pass, and when the time comes, everyone will go together to see the liveliness of a city.