Feb 26, 2021
Happy Lantern Festival. The lantern festival falls on the 15th day of the 1st Lunar month, it is today! This day's important activity is watching lanterns. Lanterns of various shapes and sizes are hung in the streets, attracting countless visitors. Children will hold self-made or bought lanterns to stroll with on the streets, extremely excited. "Guessing lantern riddles" is an essential part of the festival. Lantern owners write riddles on a piece of paper and post them on the lanterns. If visitors have solutions to the riddles, they can pull the paper out and go to lantern owners to check their answer. If they are right, they will get a little gift. People will eat yuan xiao or rice dumplings on this day. So it is also called the "Yuanxiao Festival" Yuanxiao also has another name, tangyuan. It is small dumpling balls made of glutinous rice flour with rose petals, sesame, bean paste, walnut meat, dried fruit as filling. Can be boiled, fried, or steamed. It tastes sweet and delicious. What's more, tangyuan in Chinese has a similar pronunciation with "tuanyuan", meaning reunion. So people eat them to denote union, harmony, and happiness for the family.
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