元宵节The Lantern Festival

主播: Sophia 编辑:朱玉勤 The Lantern Festival is celebrated everywhere on January 15th of the lunar calendar, right after the Spring Festival.Traditionally, the Lantern Festival is a part of the Spring Festival. This day is always the first full moon in the lunar New Year. Across China, people celebrate by hanging up lanterns and festoons, attending dancing and singing performances, making “Yuan Xiao” or sweet rice dumplings and lighting fireworks.This is also a continuation of the Spring Festival celebration.On the Lantern Festival night, the moon illuminates the dark sky while many lanterns shine bright colors on the earth.The traditions of viewing decorative lanterns on this night began more than two thousand years ago in the Western Han Dynasty.In the earlier times, those beautiful lanterns were only seen in the imperial palaces.Slowly it evolved into a celebration on the grand scale for the ordinary folks everywhere.A few days before the lantern festival, people begin gathering oiled paper, silk cloths, bamboo sticks and flower to make all types of lanterns Some people go to the lively streets to pick a personal favorite.The lanterns sometimes come in a series about certain folklore, holiday customs, or lucky mascots.The Lantern Festival is also a romantic holiday.In feudal society, young girls were not allowed to go out freely.But on the night of the Lantern Festival, they were allowed to view the lantern lights in groups.Sometimes couples would go on dates strolling down the streets lit with lantern lights.Today people still invite others to view lanterns together. Across China, the Lantern Festival is celebrated in many different styles. In places near water, people put Lotus Lanterns in the river to let them flow down stream, carrying the loss they feel for the relatives that have passed away.In the North, as traditional customs combined with modern science and technology, there evolved the Ice Lantern Festival.The combination of the ice and snow with colored lights, carvings, designs, and special scenery yield a spectacular winter paradise.The Lantern Riddle is a special word-game played by the Chinese people.The Chinese people not only craft many types of beautiful lanterns for the others to appreciate, but also create many interesting riddles.The traditional riddles are written on the lanterns.Today, many people glue a slip of paper with the riddle at the bottom of the lanterns for the viewers to solve.Those who solve the riddles correctly will receive a prize from the riddle’s creator Just like China’s other traditional holidays, the Lantern Festival also has its own special dish —“Yuan Xiao”.Yuanxiao is sticky， sweet and round in shape， symbolizing family unity， completeness and happiness. You can find Yuanxiao in oriental food stores. If you enjoy cooking， here is a recipe of Yuanxiao for you.You should prepare: 500 g sticky rice flour、200g butter、200g black sesame powder、250g sugar and 1 tsp wine 1. Mix the butter with sesame powder， sugar and wine together. You need to heat a little bit. Make small balls . 2. Take 1cup of sticky rice flour. Add water into the flour and make a flatten dough. Cook it in boiled water and take out until done. Let it cool down. Then put it in the rest of the sticky rice flour. Add water and knead until the dough is smooth. 3. Make the dough into small pieces. Make it like a ball using hands first and then make a hole in the ball like a snail. Put the sesame ball into it and close it up. 4. Cook them in boiled water. Make sure to keep stirring in one direction while cooking. 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