Eat glutinous rice balls and dumplings.

Tangyuan, also known as Yuanxiao, Tangtuan and Floating Yuanzi, is one of the representatives of traditional snacks in China, and it is a spherical food made of glutinous rice flour. There are usually fillings, cooked and eaten with soup. At the same time, it is also the most distinctive food of the Lantern Festival with a long history.

Tangyuan originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, Mingzhou started to eat a novel food, that is, black sesame seeds and lard were used as stuffing, a little white sugar was added, and glutinous rice flour was rubbed into a circle outside. After cooking, it tasted sweet and delicious. Because this glutinous rice dumpling is floating and heavy when cooked in a pot, it was originally called "Floating Yuanzi", and later it was renamed as glutinous rice dumpling in some areas.

Tangyuan symbolizes a better family reunion. Eating Tangyuan means a happy family and reunion in the new year, so it is a must-have food for the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month. In some areas in the south, people will also get used to eating glutinous rice balls during the Spring Festival, instead of jiaozi.

Tuanzi is a famous snack in the Yangtze River valley. Dumplings usually refer to a kind of food steamed with glutinous rice wrapped in stuffing, which tastes waxy, smooth, fragrant and soft, delicious, and there are two kinds of dumplings: white dumplings and green dumplings. Youth dumplings are necessary for Qingming every year. During the Spring Festival, every household in the south of the Yangtze River makes dumplings, which means reunion and family happiness.

Other food of Lantern Festival:

1. jiaozi

jiaozi is a traditional food in China. Jiaozi originated from the ancient slot. Jiaozi, formerly known as Jiaoer, was first invented by Zhang Zhongjing, a doctor in Dengzhou, China, with a history of more than 1,8 years. It is a traditional special food deeply loved by the people of China, also known as dumplings. It is the staple food of China people and local snacks, and it is also a New Year's food. There is a folk song called "A slight cold, eat jiaozi for the New Year." Jiaozi is often boiled with flour and leather bag stuffing.

2. Cotton Lantern

A Lantern Festival pasta is popular in the border areas of Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong and Henan. It is made by steaming all kinds of flour, using edible oil as fuel, and using corn stalks or matches wrapped around cotton as wick, so it is called cotton lamp. Lantern Festival lights up at night, and other lamps are generally not used for lighting at home on this day. The children went out to have a Lantern Festival with one hand in hand and ran out of oil and food. Children's rhymes say, "cotton lights, look at your eyes, and it won't hurt your eyes for three years!" "

3. Yuanxiao

Yuanxiao is one of the traditional snacks in China, which belongs to the food custom of the Lantern Festival. The practice of Yuanxiao is based on stuffing, which is mixed first, then spread into large round slices, dried and then cut into cubes smaller than table tennis. Then put the stuffing into a machine like a big sieve, pour the rice flour on it, and "sieve" it. As the stuffing collides with each other, the rice sticks to the surface of the stuffing and becomes spherical, which becomes Yuanxiao. The north "rolls" Yuanxiao and the south "wraps" glutinous rice balls, which are two foods with different practices and tastes.