What are the delicious foods for the Lantern Festival?

Lantern Festival cuisine includes glutinous rice balls, Yuanxiao, Yuanxiao tea, jiaozi, jujube cakes, noodles and bad soup. Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, traditional folk performances such as Youlong lanterns, lion dancing, walking on stilts, boating, yangko and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival in many places.

Historical development:

Lantern Festival festivals and activities have been extended and expanded with the development of history. As far as the length of festivals is concerned, there is only one day in Han Dynasty, three days in Tang Dynasty and five days in Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, lights were lit from the eighth day until the seventeenth night of the first month. It is the longest Lantern Festival in the history of China, which is connected with the Spring Festival. This day is a city. Very lively and spectacular. Especially the exquisite and colorful lights make it the climax of entertainment activities during the Spring Festival. In the Qing Dynasty, hundreds of plays such as dragon dance, lion dance, roller boating, stilt walking and yangko dancing were added, but the festival period was shortened to four to five days.

During the evolution and development of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, Ming Di advocated Buddhism. I heard that on the fifteenth day of the first month, a Buddhist monk watched the Buddhist relics and lit lamps to worship the Buddha. He ordered lights to be lit in palaces and temples on this night, so that all gentlemen and ordinary people could hang lanterns, which also formed the Lantern Festival. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. This festival has experienced the development process from the court to the people, and from the Central Plains to the whole country.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Lantern Festival lighting became a climate, and it was the Sui and Tang Dynasties that really carried forward the custom of Lantern Festival lighting. In the Sui Dynasty, the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month was unprecedented. "The Biography of Sui Shu Liu Mi" records: "On the first month, at night, the streets are crowded with strangers, and friends get together to play. The drums are ringing in the sky and the torches are shining on the ground. " At that time, Chang 'an residents would come out to watch lights and see plays, and street performances were also rich and interesting. A man with a beast's face, a man disguised as a woman, advocates superior and miscellaneous, and is bizarre.