03/03/2026
🏮Happy Lantern Festival🏮
Lantern Festival is an important traditional celebration for Hakka people. In addition to eating tangyuan, carrying lanterns, and solving riddles, unique customs make this festival special!
Do you know? Instead of tangyuan, Hakka families prepare vegetable-filled rice cakes (菜包) as offerings to deities and ancestors for blessings. Newlyweds also bring lanterns to temples to pray for children, a tradition called "Qiú dīng xiàn dēng" (求丁獻燈), symbolizing prosperity and family growth.
Another fascinating tradition is "borrowing money for wealth" and "borrowing mandarins for sweetness." Worshippers symbolically borrow small amounts of money and mandarins from the temple, believing it will bring financial prosperity and harmony in the coming year—on the condition that they return it with interest at the following Lantern Festival.
These customs carry the wisdom of Hakka heritage, making the celebration even more meaningful!
🏮元宵節快樂🏮
元宵節是客家人傳統的重要節日，除了吃元宵、提燈籠、猜燈謎，還有獨特的習俗！
你知道嗎？客家人會以菜包代替元宵來祭拜土地公與祖先，象徵祈福納吉。此外，新婚夫妻會帶燈籠至廟宇祈求添丁，寓意「求丁獻燈」，希望家庭興旺。還有「借錢求財」與「借柑求甘」的傳統，向土地公廟象徵性地借取金錢與柑橘，祈求來年財運亨通、家人甜蜜和睦，並在來年元宵節時加倍奉還。
這些傳統習俗承載著客家人的文化智慧，也讓節日增添更多意義✨
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