Trevlig lanternfestival på er allihop. För ni glömmer väl inte att det firas idag?
Idag är det alltså sista dagen på kinesiska nyårsfirandet och här utanför har de redan börjat smälla av raketerna fast det inte är mörkt ännu.
I skolan blev vi bjudna på söta dumplings av de stora skolbarnen. Det är en godsak som man äter just idag.
De ser inte så aptitliga ut precis.
Inuti kunde man hitta lite olika fyllning. En del var fyllda med en nöt och choklad, en del andra hade en illblå fyllning, har ingen aning om vad det var.
Jag kan avslöja att de smakar ungefär som de ser ut. Alltså ingenting, men konsistensen är ganska otäck och de sätter sig som klister runt tänderna. Barnen tyckte det smakade mama huhu.
Nu ska jag möta upp Lasse så ska vi få lite i magen och sedan åka bort till fågelboet. Hoppas nu inte att det väldiga firandet ikväll sätter några käppar i hjulet för vår planering.
Här kommer ett urklipp från http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/Festivals/78320.htm som förklarar lite om Lanternfestivalen.
Lantern Festival 
The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, usually in February or March in the Gregorian calendar. As early as the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 25), it had become a festival with great significance.
This day's important activity is watching lanterns. Throughout the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), Buddhism flourished in China. One emperor heard that Buddhist monks would watch sarira, or remains from the cremation of Buddha's body, and light lanterns to worship Buddha on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, so he ordered to light lanterns in the imperial palace and temples to show respect to Buddha on this day. Later, the Buddhist rite developed into a grand festival among common people and its influence expanded from the Central Plains to the whole of China.
Till today, the lantern festival is still held each year around the country. Lanterns of various shapes and sizes are hung in the streets, attracting countless visitors. Children will hold self-made or bought lanterns to stroll with on the streets, extremely excited.
"Guessing lantern riddles"is an essential part of the Festival. Lantern owners write riddles on a piece of paper and post them on the lanterns. If visitors have solutions to the riddles, they can pull the paper out and go to the lantern owners to check their answer. If they are right, they will get a little gift. The activity emerged during people's enjoyment of lanterns in the Song Dynasty (960-1279). As riddle guessing is interesting and full of wisdom, it has become popular among all social strata.
People will eat yuanxiao, or rice dumplings, on this day, so it is also called the "Yuanxiao Festival."Yuanxiao also has another name, tangyuan. It is small dumpling balls made of glutinous rice flour with rose petals, sesame, bean paste, jujube paste, walnut meat, dried fruit, sugar and edible oil as filling. Tangyuan can be boiled, fried or steamed. It tastes sweet and delicious. What's more, tangyuan in Chinese has a similar pronunciation with "tuanyuan”, meaning reunion. So people eat them to denote union, harmony and happiness for the family.
In the daytime of the Festival, performances such as a dragon lantern dance, a lion dance, a land boat dance, a yangge dance, walking on stilts and beating drums while dancing will be staged. On the night, except for magnificent lanterns, fireworks form a beautiful scene. Most families spare some fireworks from the Spring Festival and let them off in the Lantern Festival. Some local governments will even organize a fireworks party. On the night when the first full moon enters the New Year, people become really intoxicated by the imposing fireworks and bright moon in the sky.
Ha det gott och ta hand om varandra.
Kram /Marie
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