The Lantern Festival is coming at Feb.21st (The 15th January of lunar Chinese month).

Do you know why is it called Lantern Festival?
Because on this day, Chinese people go out to watch lanterns, guess the riddles written on the lanterns. On this day, Chinese people also play big drum, with the rhythm of which, mid-aged women dance yangko (a kind of dance featured as Chinese, which is popular with mid-aged women). The most important program of Chinese people on the Lantern Festival is to eat 元宵（yuánxiāo）,the traditional food of China.
元宵（yuánxiāo）, the sweet dumplings made of glutinous rice flour, wrapping different ingredient in it, such as niger seed( 黑芝麻 hēizhīma), ormosia(红豆 hóngdòu), peanut, and many kinds of fruit flavor like apple, strawberry and orange. It seems delicious, but it is not ok to eat yet. You can cook it in pure boiled water, when all the元宵（yuánxiāo）float off, it is ok, you can enjoy it now. Also you can steam and fry it. It is completely depending on your own taste how to cook元宵（yuánxiāo）