1. Tangyuan Tangyuan originated in the Song Dynasty.
It is made of glutinous rice as the main ingredient, wrapped in black sesame seeds, peanuts, etc. and rolled into balls. It tastes sweet and delicious after being cooked. Generally, southerners prefer to eat glutinous rice balls, mainly to pray for family reunion.
2. Eating dumplings. On the day of Lantern Festival, every household is busy making food. Southerners eat more glutinous rice dumplings, while northerners mostly have the habit of eating dumplings on this day. Mixing noodles and cutting them into slices is also a lively scene.
For northerners, most important festivals are spent eating dumplings.
3. Date cake: In some areas, there is also the custom of eating jujube cake. On the day of the Lantern Festival, locals will make jujube paste at home, steam it, and then gather with relatives and friends to drink and talk. Eating cake also means
The new year is prosperous and sweet.
4. Mixed vegetables: This is a custom in some areas of the south. On the Lantern Festival, they will mix vegetables and some noodles and other things together and eat them to express their expectations for the coming year.
I hope the coming year will be smooth and everything goes well.
5. Yuanxiao tea: People in Shaanxi have the habit of making Yuanxiao tea. On the day of the Lantern Festival, they will put some of their favorite vegetables or fruits into the cooked noodle soup, which will make the soup richer.
To represent good luck in the coming year.
6. In most areas, more people eat Yuanxiao on the day of the Lantern Festival. Although Yuanxiao is rich in nutrients, its main component is glutinous rice flour, which contains fat, carbohydrates, calcium, iron, and other nutrients.
Traditional Chinese medicine has always regarded Yuanxiao as a food that can replenish deficiency, regulate blood, strengthen the spleen, and appetizer.
Although Yuanxiao is good, glutinous rice is not easy to digest, so the spleen and stomach are weak. Friends with chronic gastrointestinal diseases should not eat too much to avoid gastrointestinal discomfort.