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story-telling time. :)
Winter solstice festival used to be the festival that I love the most every year. Why I like winter solstice? Reason being, I love to eat tang yuen. :D simple as that.
21.12.2012 - Winter solstice 2012. Many people discussed about the judgement day. Honestly, I feared that it would happen and I just decided to see if today passes 12.00 a.m. - we don't know what God has planned.
Talking about winter solstice again. Mum said, tang yuen used to be smaller in size in the past - to be swallowed easily. I didn't know about this custom until my eldest sis got married in 2008. Mum asked us to make tang yuen in smaller size on that day and she explained the reason - swallow in whole as a symbol of unity. The bride was forbidden to chew tang yuen and had to swallow them in whole.
Childhood memory
When I was just a little girl, mum said this to me, " the number of tang yuen you should take should be the same as the number of your age.'' That caused me hated myself for being so young and took only 7-8 tang yuen those days. I wondered why I just obeyed, when others just took it as a joke and got themselves a whole bowl full of tang yuen. I remembered I looked at them enviously. Looking back those memories,what remained - the good ones that marked your childhood. :)
