CCTV News: Two days ago, in Baquan Village, Heshan Town, Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province, the "Silks Flower Dragon" Lantern Festival and Happy Dragons event kicked off.
In Baquan Village, Heshan Town, Tongxiang City, a team of silkworm dragons composed of more than 600 villagers made a shocking appearance. They held up the 1,200-meter-long "silks flower dragon" and danced happily in the night.
In the custom of silkworm farmers, the crops are twelve cents, while "twenty-four cents" symbolize double harvest and symbolize the best harvest. At the event site, 24 bonfires were lit, symbolizing the "24th minute silkworm flower". Under the reflection of the bonfire, the villagers enjoyed this happy moment with music.
Taiyuan, Shanxi: Traditional Lantern Festival is booming in production and sales
As the Lantern Festival approaches, in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, the characteristic traditional Lantern Festival ushers in the peak production and sales season. Citizens buying Lantern Festival are endless, and there are long queues outside some time-honored food stores.
Although the weather has been cold these two days, in front of a time-honored Lantern Festival store on Zhonglou Street in Taiyuan, citizens who bought Lantern Festival still lined up in a long line.
The reporter saw that the staff in the store were very busy packing and packing. The most popular are traditional black sesame flavors and assorted flavors. For this reason, the store also prepares stock in advance to meet the needs of consumers.
Due to the hot sales, the local Lantern Festival production companies have also started production at full capacity and worked overtime in the past two days.
Qingdao, Shandong: Lantern Festival is approaching, and the production and sales of dumplings are booming
February 12 is the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. In Shandong, Henan and other places, the production and sales of dumplings and Lantern Festival with diverse flavors are booming.
In Chengyang District, Qingdao, Shandong, in order to welcome the arrival of the Lantern Festival, many merchants started preparing stocks more than ten days in advance. The supermarket freezer was filled with dumplings of various flavors and shapes, and citizens came to buy them in a constant stream.
In addition to the conventional tangyuan, in Shuiji Street, Laixi City, pastry chef Zhou Shuying and his colleagues were designing cartoon images with computer software, and they would then make different types of cartoon tangyuan based on these patterns. The sales volume of these cartoon dumplings is around 3,000 orders per day, and the supply is in short supply.
In many stores and supermarkets selling Lantern Festivals in Hebi, Henan, the masters are skillfully making handmade Lantern Festivals. The master dipped the prepared fillings in water and put them into glutinous rice flour. As they kept shaking, the filling of one centimeter square continued to collide with the glutinous rice flour. The Lantern Festival was rolling bigger and bigger like a snowball, and many customers were queuing up to buy them.
There are nearly 50 handmade Lantern Festival shops like this in the local area. It takes more than ten minutes for Lantern Festival to roll and form in the basket. The round shape also means reunion. At present, handmade stone mill Lantern Festival has entered its peak sales, with a price of about ten yuan per catty.