Warm memories linger over Lantern Festival food
China Daily | Updated: 2018-03-03 07:44
SHENYANG - Families across China prepared glutinous rice balls to celebrate Lantern Festival, known as Yuanxiao in Chinese, the last day of the two-week Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations.
Lantern Festival fell on Friday, the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, when a full moon appears. The traditional treat, made of glutinous rice flour with a variety of sweet fillings, resemble a miniature full moon.
While glutinous rice balls are eaten all over China to celebrate the festival, methods for making them vary, and they have different names.
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