About Foshan Lantern Festival eating dumplings customs

Eating dumplings symbolizes a better family reunion, eating dumplings means a new year of family happiness and reunion, so it is a necessary food for the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month. And in some areas of the South, people in the Spring Festival will also be accustomed to eating soup dumplings, rather than dumplings.

Soup dumplings originated in China during the Song Dynasty. At that time, Mingzhou rose to eat a novelty food, that is, with black sesame seeds, lard, sugar as raw materials, first of all, black sesame seeds ground into powder, and then lard, sugar one after another into the mixture kneaded into a ball as a filling, the outside of the glutinous rice flour rolled into a round, cooked, eat sweet and savory, interesting. Because of this glutinous rice ball cooked in the pot and floating and sinking, so it was first called "floating yuanzi", and later the "floating yuanzi" renamed dumplings.

Guangdong Lantern Festival like to "steal" pick lettuce, mixed with cakes and cakes to cook for good luck; Xinan County people have a male in the last year, are in the Lantern Festival Lantern Night. Nanxiong lanterns, parents take the dragon lanterns on the dragon beard line to the children tied, it is said to protect children from disease. It is also said that the remaining candles in the dragon lanterns can be used to light up the bed, so it is said that they can give birth to a son. Wenchang County people to steal the night of the Lantern Festival green, steal in order to be scolded as an omen of good luck, steal those who are not in order not to be scolded as an omen of good luck.

The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, according to general information and folklore, the first day of the first month of the fifteenth in the Western Han Dynasty has been attached importance to the first month of the Han Emperor on the night of the first day of the Sin in the Ganquan Palace to sacrifice "Taichi" activities, was seen by later generations as the first day of the first month of the fifteenth day of the first day of the God of heaven. However, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month as a folk festival is really after the Han Wei Dynasty. The custom of burning lanterns on the 15th day of the first month is related to the eastward spread of Buddhism.