The custom of the traditional Chinese festival Lantern Festival is to eat dumplings and guess lantern riddles. This traditional custom has a history of more than two thousand years. But do you know why you need to eat dumplings on the Lantern Festival? What are the origins and meanings of eating dumplings on the Lantern Festival?
Why should I eat dumplings during the Lantern Festival?
Eating Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is a common custom in the whole country. Experts say that glutinous rice balls are also called "glutinous rice balls" or "yuanzi" and "tuanzi", and southerners also call them "water rounds" and "floating rounds". Every 15th day of the first lunar month, almost every household has to eat Lantern Festival.
Folk customs experts say that when cooking dumplings, it floats on the water after it is boiled, which is very beautiful, reminding people of a bright moon hanging in the sky. The bright moon in the sky, the dumplings in the bowl, and every household is reunited, symbolizing auspicious reunion. Therefore, eating dumplings expresses people's love of family reunion. The survey also shows that the Chinese people’s inheritance and love for traditional festivals is also a kind of love for Chinese culture. When eating Lantern Festival, you must have a different taste.
In addition, the name of the dumpling is similar to the word "reunion", which means reunion, symbolizing the whole family's reunion, harmony and happiness. People also miss their parting relatives and express their beautiful wishes for future life.
