2, Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival, northerners want to eat Lantern Festival. Speaking of Yuanxiao, many people think that glutinous rice balls are Yuanxiao. In fact, Yuanxiao and Tangyuan are actually two things, although there is little difference in raw materials and appearance.
3. Lettuce: In addition to eating glutinous rice balls, Cantonese people also eat lettuce during the Lantern Festival. Cantonese people are calm and practical, and they are also most kind to festivals. Usually, lettuce is most commonly used in festive occasions such as the opening of new stores, and it is also a necessary holiday item for the Lantern Festival. Lettuce, which often becomes a common vegetable in the southern dining table, is homophonic with "making money", so it is also regarded as a festive thing symbolizing wealth and good fortune.
4, Yuanxiao tea: In Shaanxi and other places, there is a custom of eating Yuanxiao tea, that is, putting all kinds of vegetables and fruits in hot soup noodles, much like the ancient "Yuanxiao porridge".
5. Camellia oleifera: On the night of Lantern Festival, the flat ground says "fifteen flat, sixteen yuan", one day to eat jiaozi, one day to eat Yuanxiao; In the mountainous area, it is "fifteen dozen camellia oleifera, sixteen pinch flat food".
6. Oil hammer: The festive food of the Lantern Festival, rice porridge or bean porridge with gravy in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. However, this food is mainly used for sacrifices, and it is not a holiday food. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that Zheng Wangzhi's "The Record of the Chef" recorded: "Dieting in the middle of the year, going to the oil hammer." The method of making an oil hammer is similar to the fried Yuanxiao of future generations, according to a record in Shangshi Order quoted from Taiping Guangji and Lushi Miscellanies. Some people call it "the pearl of oil painting".
7. jiaozi: jiaozi and Tangyuan are golden partners. jiaozi is a folk food with a long history and is very popular among the people. There is a saying among the people that "it's delicious but not as good as jiaozi".
8. Jujube cakes: People in western Henan like to eat jujube cakes during the Lantern Festival, which means good luck.
9. Sticky cake: Sticky cake is also called rice cake. In addition to Yuanxiao and noodles, there are people who eat sticky cakes during the Lantern Festival. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "Prescription to Prepare for a Urgent Need, Food Treatment" that "self-nourishing rice is sweet, slightly cold, non-toxic, heat-removing, and qi-invigorating." After the Tang Dynasty, there were also records of eating cakes during the Lantern Festival in the Yuan Dynasty.
10, Noodles Lantern: Speaking of the custom of Lantern Festival, people usually think of eating glutinous rice balls, enjoying flowers lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns. However, there is another custom that has been handed down from the Han Dynasty, that is, the bean noodle lantern at 15 o'clock in the first month. Lantern Festival lights are auspicious lights, which can drive away evil spirits and diseases. Therefore, squeezing bean flour lights on the fifteenth day of the first month is the common people's prayer for happiness and prosperity in the new year.
1 1, bean dough: Kunming people like to eat bean dough, which is similar to Yuanxiao. It is to fry the beans and grind them, then make them into balls and cook them with water. It tastes good.
12, bad soup: Taizhou area eats bad soup after seeing lanterns on the fourteenth day of the first month every year.
13, steamed bread, wheat cake: There is a custom of eating steamed bread and wheat cake in Pujiang, Zhejiang during the Lantern Festival. It is said that the reason is that the steamed bread is made of dough and the wheat cake is round, which means "a happy reunion of the hair and grandchildren". In Shangyuan County, Changde, Hunan Province, pepper is used as soup, and leeks and fruits are added to entertain guests, which is called "time soup".
14. Noodles: There is a folk proverb in Jiangbei that says, "Put on the Lantern Festival, put down the Lantern Festival, and look forward to next year after eating it." Local people want to eat noodles on the fifteenth night of the first month, which sounds irrelevant to Lantern Festival, but it also means praying for good luck. "Records of the Year of the Emblem" contains: "On the 18th day of the first month, the lights went down, and people spat on their faces. As the saying goes,' When the lights went up, the lights went down', and each family celebrated for itself." Eating noodles when the lights are off symbolizes the meaning of continuous celebration.