Traditional Chaoshan Tangyuan Practice Video

When I was a child, whenever I had holidays, I would make hearts with my mother, my second aunt, my aunt and, of course, a group of naughty children at my grandmother's house. Adults are responsible for making flour into extruded dough and various kinds of beans or fillings such as glutinous rice, mushrooms, shrimps and ham. A group of children work together around a big round table, some roll their skins, some print patterns to wrap their hearts, and some cut leaves (a plant under their hearts). Adults are busy, and we children enjoy it while doing it.

? Taoxin is a famous snack in Chaoshan, Guangdong. Named for its peach shape, it symbolizes longevity. During the New Year holiday in China, Chaoshan women made hearts to worship God and pray for life, peace and good weather. Women in Chaoshan families usually make hearts. In particular, it is introduced that doing hearts requires a kind of green plant called curved shell, which has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving exterior syndrome. Grandma knows many necessary skills of Chaoshan women, such as being a heart, a sweetheart and a hair. My mother learned the skill of making a heart from her grandmother when she was young.

? Yesterday afternoon, my mother and I put a big round table in the living room like when we were children. Our mother and daughter began to make their own hearts. The steps of doing the heart are the same as when I was a child, but when I was a child, I did more, more people and more excitement. Now we are persistent and warmer with our mother. After a busy afternoon, I made more than 60 hearts, and the warm heart is especially sweet! Mom said she would give some to her second aunt and some to her sister. When they grow up, the original children go out to study and work in other places one after another and rarely go home. When I was a child, the pleasure of making hearts together on a big table and eating them one by one gradually became a memory. Perhaps, being warm with my mother today will become a memory in a few years.

Time flies, cherish the present.