The Lantern Festival is coming, and all parts of the city are full of joy and a strong festive atmosphere. In Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, a series of Lantern Festival activities with the theme of "Joyful Lantern Festival, Passionate Winter Olympics" kicked off in Daotian Park.
One of the four treasures of the Jinci Temple, the Jinci Osmanthus Lantern Festival, is the protagonist of this Lantern Festival activity, passed down from the Han Dynasty to the present, with the unique rice planting conditions of the Jinci Temple and the adherence to the traditional production process, this time-honored brand has been fragrant for more than 2,000 years, known as the originator of the Chinese Lantern and the representative of the Northern Lantern.
Jinyuan Shejia Drum has a history of a thousand years, and is majestic, mighty and majestic, with a cheerful and enthusiastic rhythm, showing a rough, bold and fierce spiritual background. Dressed in festive costumes and taking brisk steps, the community fire performance team around the lantern corridor of the park - ice and snow - castle - market, to provide tourists with a feast of folk culture, dancing songs, dry boats, churning and jumping dragon dance performances, tense two ghost wrestling and so on attracted the attention of many tourists, so that everyone fully appreciate the unique charm of Jinyuan traditional folklore.
The festival atmosphere is warm and strong, "Love Rice Xingnong" has a long tradition, and various activities are colorful in the rice field park.
Reporter Yang Zi: "Now we have come to a special brand store in Daotian Park, which can be said to be very warm and gives people a particularly comfortable feeling." In front of me, you can see that there is such a pile of flour, and there is a very chic mold next to it. In addition, there is a stainless steel vessel here, which contains some ingredients, what is this ingredient? We'll find out later. In the Jinyuan area, there is a proverb called 'rice core lotus melon, Lantern egg egg female doll', this rice core is about the 3,000-year-old Jinci rice, this pile of flour has the ingredients of Jinci rice. What exactly does this store do? Guess right, it is to make Jinci rice cake, which is also another innovative practice of Jinci rice. ”
Pastry chef Zhang Yalan: "This is the first shop in Shanxi to make rice cakes with rice, in order to make the color good and let everyone eat healthy rice cakes, we use pumpkin powder." In terms of craftsmanship, soaking rice is a delicate, after grinding into flour, it is necessary to use a fine sieve to form a very fine noodle. There are also skills in making and steaming, and making Jinci rice cake is very interesting, you can come and experience it. ”
Rice selection, flour grinding, sieve powder, filling, powder filling, steaming, each link can not be ignored, full of fun.
Zhang Yalan: "Next we can fill the filling, take the funnel vessel, it has various flavors, there are bean paste, osmanthus filling, pumpkin filling, and date paste filling, many fillings can be freely chosen, because we are all kinds of color collocation." ”
The steamer on the rice cake is about ten minutes, the hot rice cake is mixed with the sweetness of the dates, the sticky of the beans, the fragrance of the rice, take a bite, the delicacy and charm of the rice culture flows between the lips and teeth without a trace, and people enjoy the memory of culture, the taste of hometown and the nostalgia on the tip of the tongue. Spend the Lantern Festival in Daotian Park, in addition to the visual feast of "red fire" and the taste enjoyment of food, you can also swim in the ocean of knowledge and experience the rice field culture related to "rice".
Reporter Yang Zi: "Here is the Rice Field Art Experience Museum, when it comes to rice from all over the world, there are a total of more than 100,000 varieties, which is the well-deserved mother of the world's crops." According to statistics, more than half of the world's population currently uses rice as its main crop and staple food. Now on the three walls next to me, different types of rice from all over the world are displayed, which can give us all a new understanding and understanding of rice with a long history. ”
With the help of light and shadow technology and traditional weaving techniques, thousands of ordinary straws have been transformed into rice field castles with a height of 14 meters, a width of 53 meters and a depth of 35 meters, and this Guinness World Record-breaking ride must be the favorite place for children in the festival. In addition, in the largest ice castle in the province, various amusement projects such as ice and snow slides and snowmobiles will also turn this place into a sea of festive joy.
Source: Jinyuan Release