Guess what kind of delicacy the ancients referred to as "Fuyuanzi"?

sweet dumpling.

Tangyuan, also known as "Tangyuan" and "Fuyuanzi", is one of the representatives of Han traditional snacks.

At the same time, it is also the most distinctive food of the Lantern Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, and also expresses the ancient people's yearning and expectation for a happy life.

The fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the Lantern Festival, a traditional Chinese festival. In Hubei, there is a saying that "the year is small and the month is half old", which means that the New Year is not as important as the Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival also marks the end of the Spring Festival.

There are quite a lot of customs during the Lantern Festival. The most well-known ones are appreciating lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, eating Lantern Festival, visiting temple fairs and other activities.

In addition, it is an ancient folk custom to welcome Zigu, the toilet god, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Zigu divines sericulture and fortune-telling.

According to legend, Li Jing's concubine was jealous of the eldest wife and was killed in the toilet on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, becoming the "Toilet God".

The people sympathized with her and missed her. Every Lantern Festival, women made life-size portraits of Zigu tied with straw, cloth, etc. to worship and comfort her.

The Lantern Festival is also an authentic Chinese Valentine's Day. In the Northern Song Dynasty Ouyang Xiu's "Shengchazi·Yuanxi", "The moon is on the willow branches, and people make appointments after dusk", and in Xin Qiji's "The Sapphire Case·Yuanxi", "Everyone is searching for her thousands of times.

Suddenly I looked back and saw that person was in the dimly lit place. "They all describe the scene of dating the one you love while watching lanterns during the Lantern Festival.