Guangxi Lantern Festival Customs

Because of China's vastness and long history, Lantern Festival customs vary across the country. Guangxi as the Zhuang Autonomous Region, we all know what customs we have in Guangxi in the Lantern Festival? Today let's talk about Guangxi's Lantern Festival features ~

1, eat dumplings

Guangxi most of the common Lantern Festival customs is to eat dumplings! The meaning of the soup dumplings is reunion, the family gathered together to eat soup dumplings, and the beautiful, happy. We do Guangxi Tangyuan solid and filling two kinds, the former will be kneaded into glutinous rice flour finger-sized rounds, plus appropriate sugar water can be cooked. The latter will be sesame, peanuts, nuts, cinnamon, cane sugar, lard and other mixed processing into a filling, with glutinous rice flour as skin wrapped into a sweet and savory, for the Lantern Festival essential food. As the saying goes, "Harmony breeds wealth". Family harmony and family reunion is such an important factor for a complete family. Therefore, on the day of Lantern Festival, we Guangxi people must have family reunion and eat soup dumplings with our families.

2, eat dumplings

Guangxi people in most places on the Lantern Festival choose to eat dumplings, but Guangxi Zhuang people in the Lantern Festival more like to eat big dumplings, especially to eat a kind of called "mother dumplings" big dumplings, "mother dumplings" generally weigh three or four kilograms. The "mother zong" generally weighs about three or four kilograms. Lantern Festival to eat "mother rice dumplings" is a long-standing custom, its meaning far-reaching, eat the mother rice dumplings will have the spirit and strength to put into the spring plow production, predicting the start of the year auspicious, smooth sailing, a good harvest.

3, eat oil dumplings

In Guangxi Shanglin, Jingxi and other places, people still eat oil dumplings custom, some places are also known as frying heaps, oil heaps, etc., but also in the shape of a small ball, they are small and round, is the meaning of reunion. These oil dumplings express everyone's expectation of reunion. When I was a child, whenever the Lantern Festival day, I was most looking forward to my mother to make me oil balls to eat. So friends come to Guangxi, I suggest you also try it.

4. Windmill Stomping

The Zhuang people of Longlin Autonomous County in Guangxi hold a windmill stomping event on the 15th day of the first lunar month. Treading on the windmill is in the wooden bar built into the windmill frame, a group of four people, each person was holding the wooden frame, the first by the ground, four people at the same time around the circle, turn to the ground, and then force a stirrup, so that the windmill wheel rotates constantly. In the same time, turn the number of laps more, beautiful posture for the winner. Stomping windmills can exercise the human will, promote physical and mental health, but also can enrich people's cultural life.

Guangxi Lantern Festival is the grandest activity is the Lantern Festival. Common cloud: "thirty nights of fire, fifteen nights of lights". Guangxi's Lantern Festival prevailed in the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China. Before the establishment of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese people's *** and the country, the lanterns will be Guilin, Wuzhou, Guiping, Yulin, Qinzhou and other places are most prosperous, especially Guilin's "dragon lanterns out of the tour" is the most spectacular. In recent years, Lantern Festival is very popular in Nanning. In the Hakka language, "lamp" "Ding" homophonic, hanging lamps means hanging Ding, so the Lantern Lanterns and has such a folk meaning - symbolizing the reproduction of heirs, prosperous people.

The above is my understanding of the customs of Guangxi Lantern Festival, partners what are the customs of your hometown?