If you travel in China during Spring Festival,do not miss lantern Festival.It’s a special festival in China.
Chinese Lantern Festival is an traditional Chinese Festival which is celebrated in the first month 15th of Chinese Lunar calendar. Modern Lantern Festival has evolved into cultural exchange event which is full of cultural content and commercial value.
Chinese lantern culture has a long history, the invention of lamps and lanterns has close relationship with the fact that people got to understand and made use of fire. The invention of lamps and lanterns presupposes human being’s cognition and preservation of fire. Darkness has never been our friends since remote past. It does not only limits people’s various activities but also makes good chances for beasts to attack people. Try to imagine how our ancestors who lived in primitive forests sworn at darkness.. Several hundred thousand years ago, as human beings kept improving their understanding of the function of natural fire, fire became people’s treasure to eat prepared food and the only tool for lighting and dispelling darkness. In the long time of living experiences and when the way of artificially collecting fire was found, people initiated borrowing some auxiliary devices to fix fire source for different needs. These auxiliary device used to fix fire source underwent constant renovation and evolution, finally, special-purpose lamps and lanterns for lighting came into being.
The 15th day of the 1st lunar month is the Chinese Lantern Festival because the first lunar month is called yuan-month and in the ancient times people called night Xiao. The 15th day is the first night to see a full moon. So the day is also called Yuan Xiao Festival in China.
Besides entertainment and beautiful lanterns, another important part of the Lantern Festival,or Yuanxiao Festival is eating small dumpling balls made of glutinous rice flour. We call these balls Yuanxiao or Tangyuan. Enjoying Yuan Xiao with family during the lantern festival is an important tradition that symbolizes unity and happiness within the family. The dish itself consists of stuffed dumplings of glutinous rice flour stuffed with all sorts of things like sesame seeds, bean paste, sugar, walnut kernels or jujube powder to name just a few. Yuan Xiao is called Tang Yuan in some parts of China.
I’t really a special tour in China you have experience.you may know Chinese special ancient and traditional holiday.
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