Tangyuan, also known as Yuanxiao, Tangtuan and Fuyuanzi, is one of the representatives of traditional snacks in China and a spherical food made of glutinous rice flour. There are usually fillings, which are cooked and eaten with soup. At the same time, it is also the most distinctive food of the Lantern Festival with a long history. It is said that glutinous rice balls originated in the Song Dynasty.

At that time, Mingzhou began to eat a novel food, which was filled with black sesame seeds and lard, added with a little sugar, and twisted into a circle with glutinous rice flour outside. When cooked, it tastes sweet and delicious. Because this glutinous rice dumpling is floating and heavy when cooked in a pot, it was originally called floating Zi Yuan, and later it was renamed Tangtuan in some areas.

Customs of Lantern Festival in other regions:

Zhejiang province 1

It is said in Hangzhou that the 15th day of the first month is the day when God blessed the people of Shangyuan. They went to Wu Shan to worship. Haining Lantern Festival is most famous for its exquisite chrysanthemum lanterns, and Shangyu County is less likely to compete on the platform of Lantern Festival night. In Jiande County, if someone has a new wife, a wine sacrifice bed will be set on the Lantern Festival.

2.jiangxi province

From the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month after dinner, the whole village, old and young, will gather in the ancestral temple or temple in the village, holding the Yuanxiao song book and singing to the Yuanxiao painting. Locals call it the Lantern Festival. On the fifteenth night of the first month, besides singing, praising and boating, we also drink Yuanxiao wine and eat Yuanxiao soup, which is the finale of the evening. The whole ancestral hall is filled with tables and chairs. Some villagers filled their own rice wine in a basin that had been used for many years, poured a full bowl of rice wine for each guest, and each table also contained a large pot of Yuanxiao soup for everyone to enjoy.