The Lantern Lights are lit up
The Dragon Lion Dance is sleepless at night
Full curtains of flowers and shadows on the third and fifth of the month
A bowl of tangyuan is full of emotions
— Snowflakes fluttering
Lantern Festival (also known as: Shangyuan Festival, Tianguan Festival, Spring Lantern Festival, Xiaozheng Moon, New Year's Eve. It is one of the traditional festivals in China, the first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called "night" as "supper", and the fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called "Lantern Festival". The date is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year.
In fact, the traditional festival of the Lantern Festival is not only what we know, but also in Guangdong and other regions (in Guangzhou, the custom of the new fifteenth (the fifteenth day of the first month) can be demolished, so that you can get the complete New Year blessings of the elders).
There are also Lantern Festivals in Shaanxi and other regions where there will be rowing dry boats (rowing dry boats are also called running dry boats, that is, imitating boats on land to perform feats, and most of the people who perform dry boats are girls. The dry boat is not a real boat, more use two thin boards, sawn into a boat shape, made of bamboo and wood, and then covered with colored cloth, tied around the girl's waist, as if sitting in the boat, holding an oar in hand, doing a rowing posture, while running, while singing some local minor tunes, singing and dancing, this is the dry boat)
Lantern Festival in addition to eating Lantern Festival
There are also other Lantern foods
Xiao Tie took everyone to see
Lantern Festivals in other regions
What a delicacy
Noodles
It seems that eating noodles during the Lantern Festival is a bit inconsistent with the festival, but in fact, it is also the meaning of praying for a smooth wind. It is recorded in the "Chronicle of the Age of the Emblem" that (on the first month) eighteen falling lamps, people eat noodles, commonly known as 'the lamp round son falls on the lamp face', each family for their own feast Zhiqing." Eating noodles when the lights fall, it means that the festivities are continuous.
Camellia oleifera
Eating at night of the Lantern Festival, pingdi is called "fifteen flat, sixteen round", eating dumplings a day, eating lanterns a day; In the mountains, it is "fifteen dozen oil teas, sixteen pinch flat foods". It is the so-called "ten miles of different customs". Tea is made of oil tea by stirring the tea noodles with chopsticks under the pot.
Sticky cake
Sticky cake is also known as rice cake. In addition to the Lantern Festival and noodles, there are also sticky cakes. The famous Tang Dynasty physician Sun Simiao's "Preparation for Emergencies and Thousands of Golden Recipes and Food Treatment" contains the words "From Liang Rice, Sweet, Slightly Cold, Non-Toxic, Heat Removal, and Beneficial Qi." "After the Tang Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty also had records of Lantern Diet Cakes.
Face lamp
Speaking of the customs of the Lantern Festival, everyone generally thinks of eating tangyuan, viewing flower lanterns, and guessing lantern riddles, but there is another custom that has been handed down from the Han Dynasty, that is, the bean noodle lamp at the fifteenth o'clock of the first month. The lights of the Lantern Festival are auspicious lights, which can drive away evil spirits and dispel diseases, so the fifteenth day of the first month is the people praying for the happiness of the family in the new year and the prosperity of the family business.
Bad soup
Taizhou area every year on the fourteenth day of the first month after seeing the flower lanterns after eating bad soup. The soup is stir-fried with shredded meat, shredded winter shoots, shiitake mushrooms, fungus, fresh dragonflies, dried beans, oil bubbles, Sichuan bean boards, spinach, etc., and then add a little rice noodles to cook into a salty paste. The bad soup drunk on the fifteenth day of the first month is sweet, and it is made of sweet potato flour or lotus flour with lotus seeds, sweet dates, and cinnamon balls.
Steamed buns, wheat cakes
In the Pujiang area of Zhejiang Province, there is a custom of eating steamed bread and wheat cake during the Lantern Festival. It is said that the reason is that the steamed bun is a noodle, and the wheat cake is round, which means "the reunion of the hair and the grandson". In Changde, Hunan Province, each family uses pepper as a soup and adds leeks and fruits to entertain guests, called "shi soup".
Oil hammer
The seasonal food of the Lantern Festival, rice porridge or bean porridge with gravy poured over the Southern and Northern Dynasties. But this food is mainly used for sacrifice, not to mention holiday food. It was not until the Tang Dynasty Zheng Wangzhi's "Record of The Chefs" that it was recorded: "Dieting in the middle of the tang, shangyuan oil hammer." "The method of making oil hammers, according to a "Shang Food Order" in the "Taiping Guangji" quoted in the "Lu's Miscellaneous Sayings", is similar to the fried Lantern of the descendants. Some people also call it "Pearl of Oil Painting".
dumplings
The fifteenth day of the first month has arrived, the north has the habit of eating dumplings, and Henan people have the Lantern Festival customs and traditions of "fifteen flat and sixteen circles", so the fifteenth day of the first month should eat dumplings. Dumplings are a kind of folk food with a long history, which is popular with the people, and there is a folk saying that "delicious but dumplings".
Finally little iron to everyone
Some riddles were prepared
Come and guess together
guess
lamp
enigma
On one side is red,
On one side is green,
One side is afraid of the wind,
While being afraid of the rain,
(Guess a word)
autumn
Long pointed beak,
Thin calves.
Dragging strip big tail,
Suspicious.
(Play an animal name)
fox
There are eighteen on the left,
There are eighteen on the right,
Two out of eight,
One eight out of eight,
(Guess a word)
railing
There are two animals,
One in the water,
One on the hill ,
fresh
Wearing a leather robe yellow and yellow,
With a roar of a hundred beasts,
Although he did not lead the troops and generals,
The mighty king of the mountains.
(Hit an animal)
tiger
Finally, Xiao Tie wishes everyone: May you find happiness, find joy, find sweetness, find auspiciousness, find happiness, find the golden tiger, find the fuhu, and find the rich tiger in the Lantern Festival. Happy Lantern Festival!
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