Light the fire, bake the lantern cake, and make the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month!!
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, a traditional festival in the mainland.
The first month is the first month, the ancients called the night "supper", and the fifteenth night of the first month is the first full moon night of the year, so this day is called the "Lantern Festival", also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Small New Moon, the New Year's Eve or the Lantern Festival.
Lantern Festival
Speaking of the Lantern Festival, the first thing we think of is the Lantern Festival, which was first called "Floating Yuanzi", and later renamed "Lantern", in the mainland only the north is called "Lantern", the south is called "Tangyuan", but whether it is Tangyuan or Lantern, it is the meaning of family reunion and beauty.
In addition to eating lanterns, there are a series of traditional folk activities such as lanterns, flower lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, and paper cutting, but the most distinctive thing in our Shangdang District is the baking lantern cake.
Bake light cake
Lantern cake is a kind of noodle that must be steamed by every household in Shangdang District, with white noodles, white corn flour and red dates as raw materials. Eating lantern cake indicates that the new year can prosper and rise step by step. There is also a local saying that "burning lantern cakes and dropping a hundred diseases". On the fifteenth day of the first month, people hold up the lantern cake to roast the fire, and then eat the lantern cake they bake, which means to ascend step by step and pray for the new year.
Leiwang fire
The Fire of Leiwang is the eternal Lantern memory of the Shangdang people. Carefully built into specific shapes with clay, mostly pagodas, zodiac signs and other types, there are ventilation openings underneath, and the top is a fire vent, after ignition, various shapes spit fire, which is very spectacular.
Lantern Festival, peace lanterns, fifteen is coming, three wishes on New Year's Eve: the lights are lovely, the family is lovely, and the coming day can be expected. Happy Lantern Festival!
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