Keep a diary on Lantern Festival, 600 words.

It's sunny on Sunday, February 2, 2008/KLOC-0.

The annual Lantern Festival is coming again, also known as Shangyuan Festival, which is another traditional festival after the Spring Festival.

Lantern Festival began in the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. Lantern Festival viewing began in the period of Emperor Han Ming in the East. Ming Di advocates Buddhism. He heard that in Buddhism, there was a practice of monks watching the relics light lamps to worship Buddha on the fifteenth day of the first month, so he ordered all the cremation and ordinary people to hang lamps in palaces and temples that night. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. 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 of August until the seventeenth night of the first month, a total of ten days.

Time goes by, but many folk customs of the Lantern Festival are still popular. For example, dragon dance, lion dance, boating, walking on stilts, yangko, solve riddles on the lanterns, fireworks and other activities add luster to the Lantern Festival.

Besides these activities, the Lantern Festival also has the custom of wrapping jiaozi. Today, I was lucky enough to go to my grandmother's house with my parents. It happened that my grandmother was making Yuanxiao, so I learned from her. Grandma first mixed glutinous rice flour with boiling water, and then kept kneading the dough until the dough was as tough as plasticine. Then she kneaded the dough into the shape of a pagoda, dragged pieces of dough from the top of the pagoda, kneaded it into a ball, cut a hole in the middle, and kneaded the hole bigger and bigger with both hands. Put the prepared bean paste stuffing in this hole, knead it slowly with your thumb and forefinger, and then seal the hole. Finally, I put it in this hole. After seeing jiaozi wrapped by my grandmother, my hand couldn't help itching, so I rolled up my sleeve and wrapped it. Although the jiaozi I wrapped was small, varied in size and grotesque, it was praised by my grandmother.

The last process is to cook Yuanxiao. We put Yuanxiao in boiling water, and soon the water boiled and Yuanxiao floated on the water one by one. It's really eye-catching to see these shiny and round Yuanxiao! We all feel comfortable eating this hot Yuanxiao. I smiled all over my face and said happily, "Yuanxiao symbolizes that our life is sweet and beautiful, round and round."