What are the customs of the Lantern Festival in your hometown?

It's almost time for the Lantern Festival, and the most memorable Lantern Festival customs in my hometown include the "Lantern Festival" and the eating of dumplings, and perhaps in other cities there are also lion dances, dragon dances, drums, stilt walkers, and rice-planting songs, and other customs.

The Lantern Festival "Lantern Festival" in different regions have different meanings, in addition to the original meaning of sacrificing to the gods, to drive away evil spirits, in the south of China, there is also the meaning of seeking children, seeking to reproduce the meaning of the people, is due to the "lights" and "Ding" sound close to the cause. The reason for this is that "lamp" and "Ding" sound close to each other.

Over the Lantern Festival also eat dumplings (known as the South, the North is known as the Lantern), the production of the South and the North there are great differences in the South to do dumplings, the South will first be made of glutinous rice flour with boiled water and skin, and then will be stuffed with the "packet"; the North to do the Lantern, the first stuffing pinched into an even ball in a wicker basket paved with dry glutinous rice flour, shaking, from time to time to add water, and then the filling of the "package"; North to do the Lantern, the first filling into a uniform ball, placed on a dry glutinous rice flour constantly! Shaking, adding water from time to time to make the filling more and more sticky rice powder, until the size of the right. Since the Lantern Festival we have entered the spring, spring health should pay attention to the rise of Yang Qi, but at the same time to avoid too much rise. Therefore, people in the spring diet focuses on increasing the sweetness to complement the spleen, so in the Lantern Festival to eat dumplings (dumplings made of glutinous rice, or solid, or with filling) also mostly contain cinnamon, sesame, jujube puree, walnuts, peanuts, bean paste, almonds and other sweet and sweet products. "Tangyuan" and "reunion" sound similar to the word, take the meaning of reunion, symbolizing the whole family reunion, harmony and happiness, and sends a good hope for the future of life.　

There are also many ways to eat Lanterns, can be boiled, fried, deep-fried, steamed, etc. If the solid small Lanterns with the addition of a few more, it will be a good idea to eat the Lanterns. If you add wine, sugar and cinnamon to cook the small solid snacks, the flavor is unique, and in my hometown the cinnamon and wine snacks are a unique delicacy. Every time you eat the mouth is still lingering in the aftertaste.

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