Monday, February 09, 2009

Lantern Festival

Today is January 15 on the lunar calendar, it is the Lantern Festival. The day is the ead of our spring festival.

We'll make many kinds of lanterns today. It'll be very beautiful at night. All the ornate lanterns hang around the house.



There also are many lanterns on the boat. When the boat drives on the river. We can see the reflection in the river. It makes you feel that you are in the dreamlike world.


At the especial day, we have a especial food. It called rice glue ball. By reason that the moon at tonight is the fullmoon. So we made it round and eat it at this day.


At first, it is white and have the black sesame or meat inside. The sesame one is sweet and the meat one is salty. I like the black sesame one very much!





Later,whit the long history of the traditional festival. We have more and more kinds of the rice glue ball. We start to use more different fillings and change to many colours. It becomes more delicious and looks very nice.

2 comments:

  1. The lanterns look fantastic, and the food looks delicious. Will you make it yourself?

    How long do you leave the lanterns up around the house and what do you do when it's over?

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  2. I have made this food with my family when I was in China, but I haven't made a lanterns yet. I want to make one.
    In some theme parks, the lanterns will leave up for a few weeks.

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