What does Taizhou Lantern Festival eat?

People in Taizhou don't eat jiaozi during the Lantern Festival, but eat soup, especially around Linhai, 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.

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is the 15th day of the first lunar month and the last important festival of China Spring Festival. Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year was called Lantern Festival.

In the ancient customs of China, Shangyuan Festival (Tianguan Festival), Zhongyuan Festival (Diguan Festival, Yulan Festival) and Xiayuan Festival (Shuiguan Festival) are collectively called Sanyuan Festival. The formation of Lantern Festival custom has a long process. According to general data and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month was paid attention to in the Western Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sacrificed "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace on the first night of the first month, which was regarded by later generations as a precursor to offering sacrifices to the gods on the fifteenth day of the first month. However, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is indeed a folk festival after the Han and Wei Dynasties.