Friday, December 22, 2006
12/22/2006 09:38:00 AM
12/22/2006 09:38:00 AM
'Tung Chieh' Festival
posted by Francis Ho
Time flies! It seems like it was only yesterday that I posted on ‘Tung Chieh’ or the Winter solstice but it had been exactly a year since and today it’s the Winter Solstice again! As you’re probably aware of it already (or not), today marks the “arrival of winter” and is celebrated as a festival that falls six weeks before Chinese New Year. As is the customary practice in our family, my brothers and I together with our families will gather at our parent’s house at lunch time to make offerings (and have a nice lunch later). I look forward to this and the other Chinese festivals as it gives me a chance to catch up with them and their families. My wife and children are making the the marble-shaped ‘tang yuan’ or glutinous rice ball later this morning at home – a traditional dessert, which is a ‘must-have’ for ‘Tung Chieh’. Perhaps they could make them into fruit shapes like the desserts we saw in Bangkok. So go and enjoy your ‘marbles’ today whatever shapes they may be in!
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Wuching said:
happy tung chieh!