After the Spring Festival, here comes the Lantern Festival. In China, people celebrate it on the lunar calendar fifteen. It symbolizes the short rest has come to an end after the spring festival; people need to get back to work with their best wishes in the brand-new year.
We all celebrated this festival with plenty of food and fun. The most important and traditional food on the Lantern Festival is Tang-yuan. With sweet and soft rice outside and peanuts or sesame inside, this little rice ball stand for the happy reunion, and the best wish for the whole families.
Apart from having dinner with parents and relatives, there are also lots of activities on that day. The Lantern shows as well as guessing riddles are part of the Lantern Festival; and the most interesting part of the show is that the riddles are written on the Lantern. After dinner, the whole families go to the lantern fair, to enjoy the happiness in this moment.
In every city, there are always a main street known for its lantern fair, on that special day, the street will become as bright as daylight in the night with myriads of lanterns and streams of spectators. At this moment, the happiness in the heart is beyond all . By watching various lanterns, eating sweet Tang Yuan, and hanging out with the people we love, thinking of the bright future in front of us. It’s worth everything.
Happy Lantern Festival!
The Lantern Festival is our traditional festival in China. The custom of the Lantern Festival mainly mainly eats dumplings.
This year's Lantern Festival and our family is not the same as before. Before we go to the supermarket to buy, others are ready to go home as long as in the cooked can eat, but the feast is in is too boring. So, this year's Lantern Festival, our own package dumplings.
I followed my grandma learn step by step. First prepared a pack of glutinous rice bowl. Pour into a large bowl or in a seven over ten of warm water, turn the face evenly. Surface prepared, the filling. This is made of black sesame paste, buy when filling this is a fast, need to use a knife cut a small piece of a small, not too small, not too big. To rub his piece by piece into a round shape.
Surface and fillings are ready, the package is about to begin. Choke a face down, start with dough knead into a flat cake shape, took a first in the middle, push the flank face up, gradually became a circle, then use hand to knead a pinch the uneven places, rub into a ball, then rolled up on a few laps, a rice dumpling is completed.
In this way, one after another the dumplings in my hand was born. The most important thing is that the pot boil. Put a pot of water to boil and then throw the dumplings into the water, cook until the rice dumpling upward drift, water bubble, "begin" is already cooked. Turn off the fire, put the dumplings out, can eat.
Eating dumplings, do your own heart and fruity.
On the 15th day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival is celebrated on the Lantern Festival. Our school is no exception, each student eats two big rice dumplings. The teacher said: "the students who eat the red jujube can get an unexpected gift, and can also take a photo as a souvenir."
Before eating yuanxiao I silently pray: red date ah red date you will I hide in my yuanxiao? And that lucky fellow won't be me? I took the first yuanxiao to bite down, alas! It was bean paste, but very sweet, I think: there is a little hope, I did not hesitate to pick up the second yuanxiao can't wait to bite down, the luck is really bad, is the food, but very fragrant. Although today did not eat the red date of the Lantern Festival, but I am also very happy, because I and the teacher, the students in the New Year happily passed a lively Lantern Festival!
On the fifteenth day of the first month, it is the traditional Lantern Festival in our country. On this day, people not only have the custom of eating dumplings, but also the custom of watching lanterns. On this day, all the streets and alleys will be decorated with lights. Adults and children came out of the house to watch the strange lanterns. I also crowded into the queue of people watching lanterns.
Look! A "fairy" is riding in the air with the auspicious clouds, she holds a flower basket in her hand, the flower basket full of colorful flowers, this is the "sky woman scatter" lamp. Standing next to her also two jovian "tiger" lamp, each have two meters high, two "tiger" binocular eyes light up, still kept turning, alongside many palace lantern, lotus lanterns, hand in photograph reflect, to outshine each other. Then look at the panda light over there, a "panda" standing on the side, holding the glass blowing bubbles, a "panda" standing on the side holding a camera, see the "light" twinkle, "" panda mother's taking a picture of" panda ". There is also the aircraft takeoff and landing lights, the lei yue dragon gate light is really dazzling, the spirit is flying, as if into a fairyland. People walk through the beautiful lights, and their faces are filled with joy and happiness.