Thursday, February 21, 2008

Lantern Festival





The Lantern Festival is a Chinese traditional holiday which occurs on the 15th day of the first month of Chinese New Year. This holiday marks the end of the New Year. People will finish their New Year vocation and refresh to work and study. People will do many activities to celebrate the Lantern Festival. The typical activity is "Lantern Riddles". Different colors and shapes of lanterns are hanged everywhere. Riddles are written on pieces of paper and posted on laterns. Any one who slove the riddle is awarded a prize. Most cities will have the Chinese Dragon Dance performances. The must eat food on Lantern Festival is Yuanxiao. Yuanxiao is a kind of sweet dumpling, which is made with sticky rice filled with sweet stuffing. In Chinese the festival is named after this food. It is very easy to cook Yuanxiao. You just need to dump them into a pot of boiling water for a few minutes and then you can enjoy it as desert.

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