What are the steps of Lantern Festival? What materials are needed?

Ingredients: Sweet stuffing generally includes lard bean paste, white sugar sesame, osmanthus assorted, jujube paste, nuts, sesame, almond, ginkgo, hawthorn and so on. Salty stuffing generally includes diced fresh meat, diced ham and shrimp skin. Yuanxiao made of mustard, onion, garlic, leek and ginger is called "Five Flavors Yuanxiao", which means hard work and long-term progress. Practice steps:

1, the practice of Yuanxiao is mainly stuffing. The general process is to mix the stuffing, stir it evenly, spread it into large round pieces, cool it and cut it into cubes smaller than table tennis.

2. Then put the stuffing into a machine like a big sieve, pour the rice flour in and "sieve" it. As the fillings collide with each other and become spherical, glutinous rice also sticks to the surface of the fillings, forming Yuanxiao.

The earliest record of eating Lantern Festival can be traced back to the Song Dynasty. At that time, Yuanxiao was called "floating dumplings", "dumplings", "lactose dumplings" and "sugar dumplings". According to historical records such as Pingyuan Xu, Guangji Four Years Old and Ode to Daming, Yuanxiao, as a timely food to celebrate the Lantern Festival, began in the Song Dynasty. Because we must eat "Zi Yuan" during the Lantern Festival, people named it Yuanxiao.

With the passage of time, there are more and more activities in the Lantern Festival, and many local festivals have added traditional folk performances such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, rowing dry boats, dancing yangko and playing Taiping drums. This traditional festival, which has been passed down for more than two thousand years, is not only popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but also celebrated every year in areas where overseas Chinese live in concentrated communities.