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Lantern Festival and tangyuan
The end of the new year season, with glutinous rice balls in sweet ginger syrup or osmanthus broth.
Spices for Lantern Festival and tangyuan
On the 15th day, lanterns are hung and families eat tangyuan, round glutinous rice balls filled with black sesame paste or peanut, served in a warm sweet soup. A frequent version is cooked with fresh ginger, which gives the broth its heat against the cold of February, and some use dried osmanthus flowers. The round shape stands for reunion. Ginger syrup is also the base of many winter drinks in southern China.
The spices
Also part of it, and being written: Osmanthus fragrans (Dried flowers scent the broth and sugar.).
Written by the EveryMasala desk with AI assistance. Background: "Lantern Festival" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.