Wenzhou Lantern Festival custom

The custom of Wenzhou Yuanxiao is to eat Yuanxiao. Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China. Eating Yuanxiao in the north and Tangyuan in the south are two foods with different practices and tastes.

Yuanxiao usually only uses vegetarian solid sweet stuffing, cut into small pieces, dipped in water and repeatedly wrapped in glutinous rice flour until the size is right and the surface is dry. The stuffing of glutinous rice balls is well prepared. First, make glutinous rice flour into dough, and wrap the stuffing like jiaozi before kneading. The taste of glutinous rice balls is more delicate and smooth than Yuanxiao.

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Little Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China on the 15th day of the first lunar month. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist "Sanyuan Festival", the fifteenth day of the first month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". Since ancient times, the custom of Lantern Festival has been based on the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.