What festival is it to eat glutinous rice balls?

Eating jiaozi is the Lantern Festival.

Yuanxiao is also called glutinous rice balls. Eating glutinous rice balls on the fifteenth day of the first month is our traditional Lantern Festival custom, which means that the older generation values harmony. They always hope that in the new year, every family will be harmonious and beautiful, and everything will be perfect. They will have a bowl of glutinous rice balls with the elderly, which is a good sign for the coming year.

the Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is a traditional custom of our people. Throughout the ages, there are not only a large number of popular Yuanxiao poems, but also countless interesting Yuanxiao couplets.

At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty and the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, when a man named Jia Sidao was guarding Huaiyin (now Yangzhou) in the Southern Song Dynasty, one year lanterns were set off at the Lantern Festival, and a guest picked a Tang poem as a lantern couplet. "On a moonlit night, there is a small red building in Yangzhou." It is said that this couplet is the earliest lantern couplet in China. Since then, people all over the world have followed suit. Hanging wall lamp couplets and door lamp couplets on the gates or conspicuous pillars not only adds festive interest to the Lantern Festival, but also increases the appreciation content for the people who enjoy the lanterns.

In the Qing Dynasty, people from Tongcheng, Anhui Province and Zhang were known as "Bachelor of Father and Son, Second Prime Minister", and both of them were good at poetry. One year during the Lantern Festival, Zhang Fu decorated lanterns and set off firecrackers as usual. The old prime minister issued a joint survey, "The high fever red candle reflects the sky, bright, and light is everywhere." When Xiao Ting was imagining things, she heard the sound of fireworks outside the door, and suddenly realized, saying, "The low fireworks shook the earth with a loud voice and went up to the sky in one breath." The antithesis is neat and seamless, which is wonderful.