SIP’s Fengqing Shui’an Community hosted a series of events on Feb 1 to usher in the Chinese Lantern Festival which, reckoned on the fifteenth day of the first month on the Chinese lunar calendar, will fall on Feb 5 this year.
Beautiful traditional Chinese festive lanterns were put up on the trellis top of a pavilion, each tied with a piece of script with a riddle on it. The residents set their wits to figure out the answers to the riddles which included brain twisters, proverbs and place-names.
In another event, a group of children made rabbit-shaped festive lanterns with the help from their parents and several community workers, and gained a good knowledge of the origin of the Lantern Festival and folk customs related to it in the process.
There was also an event where the participants made and enjoyed tangyuan (stuffed small dumpling balls made of glutinous rice flour) that the Chinese like to eat on the Lantern Festival. They also presented some to the local seniors whose children live and work in other places.
February 2, 2023
