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Family reunion happy
New Year's Day 15
The fire tree and silver blossoms, the star bridge iron lock open
Dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes one by one
Today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month
We usher in the Lantern Festival
The first month of the lunar calendar is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called the night "supper"
As the first full moon night of the year
The Lantern Festival is also known as the Shangyuan Festival, New Year's Eve or Lantern Festival
The origin of the Lantern Festival
On the fifteenth day of the first month in 180 BC, Emperor Wen of Han ascended the throne and pardoned the world. In the future, every fifteenth day of the first month, the emperor will go out of the palace to play, put on the lights, and have fun with the people. Unlike other traditional festivals that emphasize "family reunion", the Lantern Festival emphasizes "universal celebration". On the night of the Lantern Festival, the streets and alleys are full of lights. People enjoy the lanterns and guess the riddles of the lanterns, which will continue from Chinese New Year's Eve to another climax, becoming a custom that has been passed down from generation to generation.
Customs of the Lantern Festival
Eat the Lantern
Lantern as food
It has a long history in China
The earliest was called "Floating Yuanzi", later called "Lantern"
Businessmen also call it "Yuanbao"
The north "rolls" the Lantern, and the south "wraps" the tangyuan
They all take the meaning of reunion
It symbolizes the reunion and happiness of the whole family and the reunion of the whole family every year
Q: What is the difference between the Lantern and Tangyuan?
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1. The practice is different
The tangyuan is "wrapped" out, the skin is smooth and sticky; the Lantern is "rolling", and the skin is dry and soft.
2. The filling is different
The tangyuan filling is soft, and there are many salty and sweet meat and vegetarian options (some areas will have plum vegetable buckle meat, shiitake mushroom fresh meat filling); lantern filling is hard, generally sweet (black sesame seeds, peanuts, bean paste, etc.).
3. Eat differently
Tangyuan is mostly eaten boiled and fried; the Lantern is mostly fried and eaten, and it can also be eaten boiled.
4. Storage is different
Tangyuan can be frozen up and has a long shelf life; Lantern freezing is easy to crack and has a short shelf life.
In Guizhou
Guizhou people who can eat and cook
The tangyuan has also been made into a trick
These Guizhou tangyuan with different tastes in the brain hole
How many have you eaten?
Bijie Tangyuan
Bijie tangyuan is triangular. There are more than ten varieties of washed sand, dates, suma, rock sugar, orange cake, rose, ham, sesame seeds, walnuts and so on. Some are soft and smooth, some are sweet and cool, some are dry and fragrant, and some are fruity.
Xingyi chicken dumplings
That's right, it subverts the traditional image of sweet and slippery glutinous tangyuan! It has the characteristics of "everyone is sweet, only I am salty and fresh". Different from other tangyuan, the key to chicken tangyuan is to take chicken as the filling, fill chicken soup, point sesame sauce, crystal smooth glutinous rice fragrance, and chicken, pork, chicken soup, sesame sauce fresh flavor fusion, sticky and smooth, oily but not greasy.
Zunyi Amaranth Tangyuan
Zunyi's Tangyuan is a traditional snack on the Chishui River, with a typical local flavor of Northern Qianbei, with a tender and smooth skin and salty taste. Tangyuan specially selects local high-quality red amaranth starch, red amaranth, fresh meat, bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, green onions, etc. as raw materials, and the cooked tangyuan is fat and round, and the filling is also full of sincerity. Paired with chili peppers and vinegar, it is a "favorite" of salty lovers.
Guiyang sauerkraut stir-fried tangyuan
In Guiyang, there is a dish about tangyuan, tangyuan is not boiled but fried in oil, plus sauerkraut and dried peppers, slowly sautéed and crispy, bite open the filling overflow, sweet and salty mouthful, bite after bite, is the innovative way to eat Qiancai, but also the addictive snack on the table banquet.
Noisy flower lights
Flower lanterns are a traditional festival custom of the Lantern Festival
The fifteenth night of the first month
In the streets and alleys, red lights hang high
Animal head lamps, marquee lamps, flower lamps, bird lights, etc
And so on
As stated in the words of Xin Ren:
"The east wind blooms a thousand trees at night,
More blowing down, the stars like rain. ”
Lion dance
Lion Dance, also known as "Taiping Music"
It is usually done by three people, one of whom acts as a lion's head
One person acts as a lion and hind feet, and the other leads the lion
It is an excellent folk art in China
Every Lantern Festival or assembly celebration
Folk people come to the lion dance to help entertain
Guess the riddle
Guessing riddles is also known as riddles
It is a special event of the Lantern Festival that has been passed down from ancient times
Write the riddle on a slip of paper
Stickers are placed on colorful lanterns for people to guess
In Guizhou, the lantern festival activities are also colorful. For example, in the Area of Zunyi Xishui, there is a custom of "burning locusts".
Every year during the Lantern Festival, after eating tangyuan in the morning, the young people in the village gather together and go up the mountain to cut bamboo. Families also took out dry wood, chose a large open space in the village, and piled up the bamboo and wood they had cut back, and after dinner, the whole village of old people and children "burned locusts" together, a custom that has been passed down for hundreds of years, and today, it is actually a large bonfire party.
"Burning Locusts"
According to legend, on the day of the Lantern Festival, "burning locusts" prays for a good harvest of crops in the coming year of the whole village, the safety and health of the elderly and children in the village, and also to meet new hopes and remember the past.
On the night of the Lantern Festival, villagers will also sing mountain songs around the firelight, and after the "locusts" are burned, they will light torches and walk around the village. From a distance, lights and fireworks shine through the mountains.
The villagers rejoiced together
In the middle of the night, the young people in the village will organize a "stealing youth" together.
Stealing green is the traditional custom of Xishui village, every night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, go to other homes to "steal vegetables", stealing is generally the vegetables in the villagers' fields, stealing everything has a meaning, such as lettuce means "wealth", radish head means "color head", green onion means "people are smart", garlic means "good plan", in order to please a good "color head".
There are also many conventions for "stealing" Qing: one is not to steal too much, the other is that it must be eaten in time, and when it is found when stealing Qing, it will bring good luck to the other party in the coming year, and everyone is happy in it.
When I was a child, I often listened to the elders in my family
"After the Lantern Festival, this year is truly over."
As fireworks slip through the night sky
Harvest and growth in the past year
The hustle and bustle of spring and holidays
They will all be gone
Right now
People from all walks of life
Basically, they all returned to their posts
Take advantage of the warm weather, the beginning of the day
Take another bite of the sweet sticky Lantern
Let's go to the next day with good times
Great night tonight
Say goodbye to peace and reunion
Spring has arrived
May you weave a new dimension with your hands
The Lantern Festival is coming,
May you be safe and happy!
Source: Guizhou Education Press, China Education News, Tianyan News
Editor: Zhao Yeping
Editor: An Yilun
Signature: Wang Xingtao
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