Tuesday, 22 December 2009

Happy Dong Zhi

It's Winter Solstice celebration for all Chinese today. In Chinese, it's called Dong Zi celebration. The first character means “winter” and the second character means “arrival.” Combined together it means winter has arrived. In traditional Chinese society, the arrival of winter meant that the farmers would lay down their tools and celebrate the harvest by coming home to their families.

Dong Zhi is celebrated with everyone in the family gathers to eat tang yuan or glutionuous rice balls (as seen in today's photo). These alls are made of rice flour shaped into small balls and boiled with water, sugar, ginger and pandan leaves (for Malaysia version as the pandan leaves exude nice fragrant that improve the flavour of this dessert).

Today's posting is for That's My World Tuesday posting.

1 comment:

Kris said...




