1, used for food
Yuanxiao and Tangyuan are not a kind of food. In contrast, Yuanxiao was originally more popular in the north, and Tangyuan was originally more popular in the south.
① Tangyuan
Ingredients: 200g of rice flour, ground flour15g, black sesame100g, 60g of sugar powder, 55-60g of lard (which can be replaced by butter), warm water125g, and boiled water15g.
Practice: Mix glutinous rice flour with warm water. Add boiling water to glutinous rice flour, knead it several times until the dough is soft and smooth, and let it stand for 10 minute. Stir-fry black sesame seeds, put the fried black sesame seeds into a blender and grind them, add sugar powder and semi-melted lard, and stir evenly (if sugar and black sesame seeds are ground together). After the prepared stuffing is refrigerated in the refrigerator for half an hour, the black sesame balls with the same size are taken out.
Glutinous rice dough is also made into small dough with uniform size. Knead a glutinous rice dough into a ball, press it into a dough, add the stuffing, wrap it tightly and close it. When everything is done, put it in the pot and cook it. After the water is boiled, boil the glutinous rice balls in the pot for two or three minutes.
② Lantern Festival
Black sesame stuffing is the same as above.
Take a large and deep container, another basin of clear water and a sieve, put the rice flour into the container, and put the black sesame stuffing into the meatballs. Shake the basin so that the stuffing is evenly covered with glutinous rice flour, put it in a sieve, soak it in clear water for three seconds, take it out, and continue to put it in flour to knead it round. This step is repeated about eight to ten times. There will be small cracks on the surface of the rolled Yuanxiao, which can be glued with water first and then with some powder. The rolled Yuanxiao is about twice as big as the stuffing.
2. Menu function
Southerners' dishes are famous for their exquisiteness and delicacy, and they pay special attention to feelings. The biggest feature is that they pay attention to material selection. The dishes in the south are naturally branded with this distinctive regional brand, which is not only full of color and fragrance, but also full of utensils and colors, and the details of the dishes are particularly exquisite. As far as cooking methods are concerned, whether it's roasting, stewing, steaming, stewing, broiling, frying and mixing, southerners have a set of complicated and exquisite procedures, pursuing freshness, tenderness, fragrance and smoothness to satisfy various subtle experiences of taste buds.
Northerners' dishes are bright in color and heavy in taste. The biggest feature is that they use local materials and pay attention to cooking. The raw materials for cooking in the north are not as rich and varied as those in the south, but they are all very common things, and chefs in the north can also make distinctive flavors. For example, the famous roast lamb head in Lanzhou is cooked to half-cooked, then cut in half across the board, coated with sheep oil, and then barbecued in the oven with low fire. The whole process of roasting sheep's head is very complicated. It needs to be brushed with oil nine times, soy sauce twice, vinegar twice, cumin twice and Chili oil three times. After it is done, the whole sheep's head is purple and black. Although it is not very beautiful, it tastes particularly attractive.
North and south, in addition to eating rice, noodles, fish and meat. Cooking habits, tastes and styles are also very different. For example, porridge is millet porridge and rice porridge in the north, with a few dates at most. But southerners not only put vegetables in porridge, but also ham and preserved eggs. Even jiaozi wraps sausages. In addition, southerners like sweet, while northerners like salty. Southerners like to fry dishes separately, while northerners like to cook them in one pot and so on. Generally speaking, the diet in the south is exquisite, while the diet in the north is rough.
3. Cultural customs
Hebei Province: During the Lantern Festival in Yongping Prefecture, sick women gather under the kiln, which is called "pottery moxibustion". Children crossing the bridge are called "Du Bai Goose". Some people cut the paper into nine paper ropes and tied them with their hands to make up for their mistakes. This is called "knotting sheep intestines". Use twelve cups to store oil, put it in a pot and steam it. According to the amount of water in the cups, predict the sunny and rainy days this month. The Shangyuan Festival in Jinghai County takes big steamed bread as its diet. Qingyun County, Lantern Festival, the man asked five ancestors to teach boxing sticks, and the woman asked Zi Gubu to take the blame.
Henan Province: Eating wonton during the Lantern Festival in Xiangcheng County is called "reunion tea". When the bride's family brought her married daughter home for the Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival in the county, all the old, the sick and the disabled used fire to moxibustion stone turtles. If there is a river bridge in the area, cross it at the same speed. If there is no bridge, build an "overpass" with wooden boards several feet high, which is called "walking all diseases"
Shandong Province: People in Zichuan District of Zibo will put more river lanterns by the water during the Lantern Festival. Ningyang County, Tai 'an City sends lanterns to ancestral graves during the Lantern Festival. Boxing County, Binzhou City, has the custom of having some lights. The boy walked around the jujube tree six times with a lamp and said "Du Lao Du Lao, flowers and dates" six times, which can make the jujube tree harvest. Men, women and children in Juxian County, Rizhao City go hiking in the wild on the 16th day of the first month, which is called "walking old". It is said that walking once a year can keep them young forever.
Shaanxi Province: Fengxiang County fetes his daughter and son-in-law during the Lantern Festival, which is called "Eating Fifteen". And sending lights to send oil is called "adding oil".
Jiangsu Province: In Wujin District, reed is tied into a torch to make a promise, which is inserted in the ground and called "Zhao Tiancai" to indicate the morning and evening. White fire is water, and Rise of the Legend is drought. On the Lantern Festival in Yixing, children wear ghost masks, bend their feet and jump around with their shoulders shaking, which is called "jumping ghosts".
Zhejiang Province: According to legend, the 15th day of the first month in Hangzhou is the day when God blessed the people, and people often go to Wu Shan to worship. The most famous Lantern Festival in Haining is the exquisite chrysanthemum lantern. Shangyu County will compete in martial arts on the platform before the Lantern Festival. In Jiande County, if someone has a new wife, a wine sacrifice bed will be set on the Lantern Festival.
Jiangxi Province: People in newly-built counties and cities sweep graves during the Lantern Festival and put bamboo as lanterns. Every town in wanan county worships Shenzhou on the Lantern Festival.
Hubei: The old farmer in Yunmeng County (now Jianghan) holds a torch to shine on Pu Tian at midnight, which is called "shining on the Jedi silkworm". Children greet God with drums and fields and predict the future. Wuchang's "dragon making" will last for three days. All the men, women and children in the village follow the dragon lantern to the neighboring village for dinner, which is called "Dragon for Wine".