Lights Of The Thirteen Dynasties Reflect in Chang'an: Yuanxiao (Filled Round Balls Made Of Glutinous Rice-flour For Lantern Festival) Of Xi'an People

 

 

Move to the left! We need to capture the clock tower in the lanterns! "On the evening of the 15th day of the first lunar month, amidst the dazzling lights of the Tang Dynasty Night City, Xiaoyu, a post-95s girl wearing a chest length skirt, was directing her boyfriend to adjust the camera angle. A hundred meters away, under the 20 meter high "Tang Poetry Lantern Array", the elementary school students of the study group looked up and recited in unison, "Fire trees and silver flowers merge, star bridges and iron locks open".

 

 

In the Yongning Gate section of the Xi'an City Wall, 62 year old Master Zhang stepped on a ladder to screw the Phoenix Lamp Group: "This year, LED light strips will be used, but the skeleton will still be made of bamboo strips passed down from our ancestors." Behind him, the kilometer long city wall turned into a time and space tunnel, with Qin Han tile lamps and astronaut lamps facing each other across the sky. Qin Opera suddenly came from the moat. "Little sister of the tumbler" was standing at the bow of the rowboat, shouting "Happy Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival for the villagers" in a theatrical voice, which made the tourists on the bank laugh and shout "beautiful".

 

 

The time-honored "Laosun Family" in the Huimin Street set up a Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) stall at the corner of the street. Sun Wei, the fifth generation successor, rolled Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) while popularizing science: "Xi'an pays attention to the three color candy hearts, including walnuts, roses and osmanthus, which are more chewy than the southern rice dumpling." At the booth next door, the post-00s college students held up their mobile phones to broadcast the process of making persimmon Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) soup: "My grandpa of intangible cultural heritage said that this is a dessert passed down from the 'Shaowei Feast' of the Tang Dynasty."

 

 

The sesame fragrance wafted from the community activity station. Grandma Zhao, an empty nest old man, taught the foreign student Bao Yuanxiao hand in hand: "You see, this dough needs to be rolled, just like the geomantic omen of Xi'an, which stresses roundness and fullness." Professor Zhou, a folklore scholar, stood in front of the lantern wall pasted with the wishes of young people and sighed: "From the Han Dynasty's' burning lanterns to sacrificing Taiyi 'to the present world's lanterns, the Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival in Chang'an City is part of the history of Chinese festivals."