"Chinese started to celebrate the Yuan Xiao since the Han Dynasty (206BC-221AD), and then it became popular during the Tang and Song Dynasties. This is a festival for people to have fun. On the night, people go to streets with a variety of lanterns under the full moon, watching Lion or Dragon Dance, playing Chinese riddles and games, enjoying the typical food called Yuan Xiao and setting off firecrackers. There is really a lot of fun for the young and the old.
Yuanxiao is the special food for the Lantern Festival. It is believed that Yuanxiao is named after a palace maid, Yuanxiao, of Emperor Wu Di of the Han Dynasty.
Yuanxiao is a kind of sweet dumpling, which is made with sticky rice flour filled with sweet stuffing. And the Festival is named after the famous dumpling.
It is very easy to cook - simply dump them in a pot of boiling water for a few minutes - and eaten as a desert "
Some photos too from CNY..family and friends... =)
2 comments:
nice photos! hope u had a great break during the cny period =) hey we should catch up soonnn! -love, joyce
yup yup! When wld u be free? cld catch up! =) -love too, Yufen
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