Saturday 22 December 2007

Winter Solstice Festival

Today is the Winter Solstice Festival which is also known as Dong Zhi where it is most celebrated by the Chinese a few days before Christmas. This is the time where tang yuen is served.

Starting yesterday night, been helping mum to prepare the glutinous rice balls comprises of red, white, green and yellow colours which mum cook this morning with syrup for prayers of ancestors and deities.

"Yuen" means round in mandarin signifying completeness and perfection. According to tradition belief, you will grow a year older after eating tang yuen as it symbolises the beginning of a year soon.

This is the photos that i took after making the glutinous rice balls.


yellow and green rice ball with difference size =p

red and white rice balls

the following is the cook glutinous rice balls

Need to go now as mum is calling. Till then enjoy your day!

1 comment:

Alyssa Ng said...

i made tang yuan too last night. and my classmate, aubrey, helped me finished it. osbert and his friend, jasmine were at my home, too.

time flew so fast. it has been a year since the last time i had tang yuan with my housemates at lovaine.

miss you all la. so lonely again this christmas. anyway,

Happy Christmas and Happy New Year. wish you luck in decision making. i'll be there to chat whenever i am online. =)