Today is the Lunar New Year 15, is the annual Lantern Festival, in this leisutan staff wish you all a happy Lantern Festival! A few days ago in the street had been seen everywhere decorated the screen, you can feel the festive and cheerful people's attention to the festival, the Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, so all over the country, most of the region the custom is similar, but the country still has its own characteristics.
Eat Lantern
Fifteenth eat Lantern, "Lantern" as the food in China is also a long time. Song, a popular folk that novel foods to eat the Lantern Festival. This food, the first is called "floating Motoko" later known as "Festival", businessmen also are called "gold." Lantern that "dumpling" with sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, Huanggui, walnuts, nuts, Zaoni as the stuffing, glutinous rice flour bag into a round, can be prime meat, different flavor. Soup can be boiled, fried, steamed, meaning there is a happy reunion. Shaanxi dumpling is not a package, but in the glutinous rice flour "roll" into, Secretary broiled or fried, hot heat fire, round and round.
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Yongping Han Dynasty (AD 58--75), because Emperor Ming promote Buddhism from India to seek coincides Cai serene Buddha returned, saying India Mount Tuo country drink every fifteenth, the monks gathered to pay tribute to the Buddha relics, is the reference Buddha auspicious Auspicious. Emperor Ming to promote Buddhism, ordered the fifteenth night in the palace and temple, "Lotus Lantern Table Buddha." Since then, the Lantern Festival put lights on the original customs held only in the court and spread to the private sector. That every fifteenth, whether or plebeian Nobles have hanging lights, urban lit overnight.