Eating Yuanxiao and reunion.

    Lantern Festival, one of the traditional festivals in China, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Little First Moon, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, takes place on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night" as "xiao". According to Taoism "Sanyuan", the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". The     Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive lantern viewing custom since ancient times.

    The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, which is rooted in the folk custom of turning on the lights and praying for blessings. According to general materials and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has been taken seriously in the Western Han Dynasty, but the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was truly regarded as a national folk festival after the Han and Wei Dynasties. The rise of the custom of lighting lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also related to the spread of Buddhism to the east. Buddhism flourished in the Tang Dynasty. Officials and people generally "lit lanterns to worship Buddha" on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Buddhist lights spread throughout the people. statutory matter.

    The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China. The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks. In addition, many local Lantern Festivals also add traditional folk performances such as dragon lanterns, lion dances, stilt walking, dry boat rowing, Yangko twisting, and Taiping drums. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

    Eating Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day, "Yuanxiao" as a food, has a long history in our country. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food for the Lantern Festival was popular among the people. This kind of food was first called "Fu Yuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao", and businessmen also euphemistically called it "Yuanbao". The Lantern Festival is "Tangyuan" with sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, cinnamon, walnut kernels, nuts, jujube paste, etc. as fillings, and it is wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, which can be meat or vegetarian, with different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, fried or steamed, which means reunion and happiness. Shaanxi's tangyuan is not wrapped, but "rolled" in glutinous rice flour, or boiled or fried, hot and hot, and reunion.

   "Yuanxiao" has a long history in China as a food. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food for the Lantern Festival was popular among the people. This kind of food was first called "Fu Yuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao", and businessmen also euphemistically called it "Yuanbao". In ancient times, the price of "Yuanxiao" was relatively expensive. There is a poem that said: "The distinguished guests hooked the curtain to see the imperial street, and the treasures in the city came at once. There is no way to go to the flower stand in front of the curtain, and no money can be returned."

    The northern "roll" Yuanxiao, the southern "package" glutinous rice balls, these are two kinds of food with different methods and tastes.

    The Lantern Festival is over on the 15th day of the first lunar month, even if the year is over. Traditionally, during the Lantern Festival, you should watch lanterns, guess lantern riddles, and eat Lantern Festival, but what is sweeter than Lantern Festival is a beautiful reunion time.

    Gree Agriculture wishes everyone happiness and well-being during the Lantern Festival, the reunion of the people in the Full Moon Love Garden, and all the best wishes come true!