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The Lantern or Yuan Xiao Festival is one of the traditional Chinese festivals. It is popularly referred to as Chinese Valentine's Day and takes place on the first full moon of the Lunar New Year. It also marks the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations.
The Chinese first celebrated the Lantern Festival during the Han Dynasty ( 206BC-221AD).
Lanterns became a part of the celebrations and now, home and public areas are filled with lanterns in traditional designs such as the typical red, spherical design as well as designs based on butterflies, dragons, birds and other animals. These create bright and colourful displays during the evening and night.
Food to Celebrate Lantern Festival
Tang Yuan and Yuan Xiao are a traditional food for the Lantern Festival. They are glutinous rice balls made of glutinous rice flour rolled round with varieties of sweet fillings such as black sesame paste, peanut paste, red bean paste or lotus paste to name a few. These sweet dumplings are often cooked in a red bean dessert or slab sugar with a piece of ginger to make a soup.
These round shaped Tang Yuan or sometimes called Yuan Xiao (sweet dumplings) symbolise family unity, completeness and happiness to mark the end of the Chinese New Year festivities.
Another food-related custom common both past and present is the eating of tang yuan, or yuan xiao as it is called in the North. Yuan xiao, sweet tasting glutinous rice-flour balls with many types ......余下全文>>