正月十五，元宵佳节
十几组家庭欢聚在六悦博物馆
一起做兔子汤圆，猜灯谜
和乐融融，享受节日的喜悦气氛
More than a dozen families gathered at Six Arts Museum to celebrate the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of this year’s first lunar month. The families together made sweet glutinous rice balls in the shape of rabbits, and had great fun guessing lantern riddles. A festive, harmonious and joyful atmosphere was evident throughout the museum.
伴随着兔年的到来
街头巷尾所处可见可爱的兔子元素
六悦博物馆驻馆艺术家朱海明老师
也为大家带来了兔子和春节的主题剪纸
With the arrival of the year of the rabbit, cute rabbit motifs can be seen everywhere. Six Arts Museum’s artist in residence, Zhu Haiming, happily celebrated the Lantern Festival at the museum making Chinese New Year and Rabbit themed paper-cuttings for all of the museum visitors.
大家纷纷来到挂着灯谜的彩灯前
聪明的小朋友自己就可以猜对不少
开心地领取了有趣的礼物
心满意足地进行压轴的兔子汤圆制作
Museum visitors enjoyed guessing riddles at the rows of colorful lanterns. The riddles were both fun and challenging, and many adults and even some children were so clever that they solved the riddles by themselves, and of course won fabulous prizes.
在燕子老师的悉心教学下
大家开始分馅料，分面团
最先需要完成包汤圆的部分
也就是兔子身体的制作
In order to make the sweet glutinous rice rabbits during the Lantern Festival celebration, the parents and children divided the filling and dough under the careful teaching of Teacher Yenzi, and then wrapped the glutinous rice dough balls to form the rabbit bodies.
白白的糯米粉面团裹上香甜的豆沙馅
揉搓成圆滚滚的兔子身体
再加上粉色的火龙果面团耳朵
和可可粉面团眼睛就大功告成啦
The participants kneaded the white glutinous rice flour dough to wrap around the sweet red bean paste, thereby creating rabbit bodies, they then added Pink Dragon Fruit Dough Ears, and brown cocoa powder dough eyes - the cute chubby rabbits were born.
爸爸妈妈和孩子们齐心协力
制作完成了一个个可爱的兔子汤圆
相信这个特别的元宵节汤圆
也会为大家留下特别的美好节日回忆
Parents and their children happily worked together to make rabbit dumplings one after another. Every participant took home wonderful lasting memories of making these special Lantern Festival Dumplings, and of course they also took home the tasty handmade rabbits themselves!