What is the Lantern Festival in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province made of?

People in Taizhou, Zhejiang don't eat Yuanxiao on Lantern Festival, but eat soup.

Especially near the sea, Sanmen and Tiantai. Rotten soup is made of freshly ground rice flour and mixed with seasonings such as shredded pork, shredded winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fungus, dried bean curd, oil bubble, Sichuan bean board and spinach. It is a salty paste food, which is divided into sweet and salty. On the 14th day of the first month every year, people in Taizhou eat rotten soup after watching lanterns. On this day, they usually eat salty bad soup, and on the fifteenth day of the first month, they eat sweet bad soup, which means salty before sweet, and life is sweeter.

The Lantern Festival in Taizhou has a special tradition, that is, the fourteenth day of the first month is a festival. In Taizhou, there are many legends about the origin of the Fourteenth Lantern Festival, such as "filial piety", "war" and "fortification". Whether this legend is true or not cannot be verified. However, the ancient customs of eating bad soup, guarding the god of wealth, enjoying lanterns and solving riddles on lanterns have been passed down from generation to generation and have been passed down to this day.