1, glutinous rice balls and Lantern Festival, southerners eat glutinous rice balls and northerners eat Yuanxiao, all for the good meaning of family reunion. The main raw material for making glutinous rice dumplings and Yuanxiao is glutinous rice, which is flat in nature, sweet in taste, tonifying deficiency and regulating blood, invigorating spleen and appetizing, benefiting qi and stopping diarrhea, and has the functions of warming middle warmer, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness. The stuffing of glutinous rice balls is sweet, salty, meaty and vegetarian, and Yuanxiao is mostly sweet, mainly fruit and dried fruit.
2. Yuanxiao Tea In Shaanxi and other places, there is a custom of eating Yuanxiao tea, which is to put all kinds of vegetables and fruits in hot soup noodles, much like the ancient "Yuanxiao porridge". This kind of tea increases the intake of cellulose, minerals and vitamins, and is not as greasy as ordinary Yuanxiao. It has a neutralizing effect on the acidic constitution caused by eating more animal food in festivals, and also makes Yuanxiao more comprehensive in nutrition.
The 15th day of the first month is the day of jiaozi. In the north, people in Henan have the custom and tradition of "fifteen levels and sixteen circles" in the Lantern Festival, so they want to eat jiaozi on the fifteenth day of the first month. Jiaozi is a folk food with a long history and is deeply loved by people. There is a folk saying "delicious but not as good as jiaozi".
4, jujube cake People in western Henan like to eat jujube cakes on the Lantern Festival, which means good luck. Jujube cake was originally the imperial cake of Qing Dynasty. It is sweet and fragrant, and contains vitamin C, protein, calcium, iron, vitamins and other nutrients, which can not only replenish the spleen and stomach, but also benefit qi and promote fluid production. It also has the functions of protecting the liver, increasing muscle strength, beautifying and preventing aging.
5, bean noodles Kunming people like to eat bean noodles, the practice is similar to Yuanxiao, that is, stir-fry the beans and grind them, then make them into balls and cook them with water. It tastes good.
6. rotten soup Taizhou area eats rotten soup after watching lanterns on the fourteenth day of the first month every year. Stir-fry the soup with shredded pork, shredded winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fungus, fresh duck, dried bean curd, oil bubble, Sichuan bean board, spinach, etc. Add a little rice flour and cook it into a salty paste. The rotten soup drunk on the fifteenth day of the first month is sweet, made of sweet potato powder or lotus root powder with lotus seeds, candied dates and longan.
7. Noodles Jiangbei area, there is a folk saying that "on the Lantern Festival, under the noodles, you can look forward to next year after eating". Local people eat noodles on the fifteenth night of the first month, which sounds unrelated to the Lantern Festival, but it also means praying for good luck. "Annals of the Emblem" states: "On the 18th day of the first month, the lights go out and people spit on their faces. As the saying goes,' when the light is on, it goes out', and everyone celebrates. " Eating noodles with lights out symbolizes continuous celebration.